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He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye.
我說話的時(shí)候，他的眼睛一直緊緊地盯著我，我?guī)缀鯊奈匆娺^如此猜忌多疑的眼光。
'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. 'Yes, I promise.'
末了，他說：'那么，您作出保證啦？''是的，我保證做到。'
'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after?
'在事前事后以及整個(gè)事情進(jìn)行的過程中，完全徹底保持緘默，
No reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?'
絕對不提這件事，口頭上和書面上都不提，能做到嗎？'
'I have already given you my word.' 'Very good.'
'我已經(jīng)向您保證過了。''那好極了。'
He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was empty.
猛然間他跳了起來，閃電般地跑過房間，砰地推開了門，外面過道上空無一人。
'That's all right,' said he, coming back.
'還不錯(cuò)！'他走了回來。
'I know the clerks are sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk in safety.'
'我知道辦事員們有時(shí)對他們東家的事情是很好奇的。現(xiàn)在，我們可以安全地談話了。'
He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look.
他把椅子拉到緊貼我身邊的地方，又一次以充滿懷疑和探索的眼光打量著我。
A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man.
看到這瘦骨嶙峋的人的古怪行為，我的心里泛起了一種反感和近乎恐怖的感覺，
Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from showing my impatience.
甚至失去主顧的擔(dān)心也抑制不住我流露出來的不耐煩情緒。
