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I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run,
我只是震動了一下，并沒有摔傷，我急忙站了起來，拼著命沖到矮樹叢中，
for I understood that I was far from being out of danger yet.
我明白我還遠未脫離危險。
Suddenly, however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me.
可是，正當我向前跑著，我突然感到一陣要命的暈眩和惡心。
I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully,
我瞅了一眼那只疼得陣陣抽搐的手，
and then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and that the blood was pouring from my wound.
這時我才第一次發現我的大拇指被砍掉了，血正從傷口不斷地涌出來。
I endeavoured to tie my handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my ears,
我竭盡全力用手帕把傷口裹了起來，這時突然一陣耳鳴，
and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the rose-bushes.
接著我就昏厥過去，倒在薔薇的花叢之中。
How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell.
我不知道我昏迷了有多久。
It must have been a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was breaking when I came to myself.
時間一定很長，因為當我蘇醒過來時，正是星沉月落，旭日東升。
My clothes were all sodden with dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded thumb.
我的衣服全被露水浸濕了，袖子被傷口的血浸透了。
The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the particulars of my night's adventure,
傷口劇烈的疼痛立刻使我回憶起夜里的危險遭遇，
and I sprang to my feet with the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers.
一想到我可能還沒有擺脫追趕我的人，我頓時就跳了來。
But to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house nor garden were to be seen.
但是使我大吃一驚的是，當我朝周圍張望的時候，既看不到房子，也看不到花園。
I had been lying in an angle of the hedge close by the highroad,
原來我一直躺在緊挨著公路的樹籬的一個角落里，
and just a little lower down was a long building, which proved, upon my approaching it,
前面不遠是一座長長的建筑物，當我走近看時，
to be the very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night.
原來就是我昨天晚上下車的那個車站。
Were it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream.
要不是有我手上這個嚇人的傷口，在這一段可怕的時間里所發生的一切，很可能只不過是一場惡夢。
