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"It was because I felt and knew this, that I resolved to marry you.
“正是因為我感覺到而且明白這一點，我決計娶你。
To tell me that I had already a wife is empty mockery: you know now that I had but a hideous demon.
說我已有一個妻子，那是空洞的嘲弄。現在你知道我只有一個可怕的魔鬼。
I was wrong to attempt to deceive you; but I feared a stubbornness that exists in your character.
我想欺騙你，這是我的不是。但我擔心你性格中執拗的一面。
I feared early instilled prejudice: I wanted to have you safe before hazarding confidences.
我擔心早就種下的偏見，我想在穩操勝券以后，再冒吐露真情的危險。
This was cowardly: I should have appealed to your nobleness and magnanimity at first, as I do now
這其實是怯懦，我應當像現在這樣，先求助于你的高尚心靈和寬宏大度，
opened to you plainly my life of agony -- described to you my hunger and thirst after a higher and worthier existence
直截了當地向你傾吐生活中的苦惱--向你描述我對更高級和更有價值的生活的渴求，
shown to you, not my resolution (that word is weak), but my resistless bent to love faithfully and well,
不是向你表示決心（這字眼太弱了），而是不可抵御的愛意，
where I am faithfully and well loved in return.
也即是在被別人忠貞不二地深愛著的時候，
Then I should have asked you to accept my pledge of fidelity and to give me yours. Jane -- give it me now."
我也那么去愛別人，隨后我應當要求你接受我忠貞的誓言，也要求你發誓：簡--現在就對我說吧。”
A pause. "Why are you silent, Jane?"
一陣靜默。“你干嘛不吱聲，簡？”
I was experiencing an ordeal: a hand of fiery iron grasped my vitals.
我經歷著一次煎熬。一雙鐵鑄火燎的手，緊緊抓住了我的命脈。
Terrible moment: full of struggle, blackness, burning!
一個可怕的時刻，充滿著搏擊、黑暗和燃燒！
Not a human being that ever lived could wish to be loved better than I was loved;
人世間再也沒有人能期望像我這樣被愛了。
and him who thus loved me I absolutely worshipped: and I must renounce love and idol.
也沒有人像我這樣拜倒在愛我的人的腳下，我必須摒棄愛情和偶像。
One drear word comprised my intolerable duty -- "Depart!"
一個凄涼的字眼就表達了我不可忍受的責任--“走！”
