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When I got there, I was forced to sit to rest me under the hedge;
到了那里，我不得不坐到樹籬下歇口氣。
and while I sat, I heard wheels, and saw a coach come on.
正坐著，我聽見了車輪聲，看到一輛公共馬車向我駛來。
I stood up and lifted my hand; it stopped.
我站起來招了招手，它停了下來。
I asked where it was going: the driver named a place a long way off,
我問車子開往哪里，趕車人說了一個離這兒很遠的地名，
and where I was sure Mr. Rochester had no connections.
我確信羅切斯特先生跟那里沒有聯系。
I asked for what sum he would take me there; he said thirty shillings;
我問出多少錢才肯把我送往那里，他說三十先令。
I answered I had but twenty; well, he would try to make it do.
我回答只有二十，好吧，他說勉強算數了。
He further gave me leave to get into the inside, as the vehicle was empty:
因為車是空的，他又允許我坐在里邊。
I entered, was shut in, and it rolled on its way.
我走進去，關上門，車子便滾滾向前了。
Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!
好心的讀者呀，但愿你從來沒有感受到過我當時的心情！
May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine.
但愿你兩眼從沒像我那樣淚如雨下，淌了那么多灼熱揪心的眼淚。
May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonised as in that hour left my lips;
愿你從來不必像我當時那么傾吐絕望而痛苦的祈禱，向上天求助。
for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.
愿你永遠不必像我這樣擔心會給你全身心愛著的人帶來災禍。
