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Somehow, now that I had once crossed the threshold of this house, and once was brought face to face with its owners,
不知怎地，我一跨進門檻，一被帶到這家主人面前，
I felt no longer outcast, vagrant, and disowned by the wide world.
就不再覺得自己無家可歸，到處流浪，被廣闊的世界所拋棄了。
I dared to put off the mendicant -- to resume my natural manner and character.
我就敢于扔掉行乞的行當--恢復我本來的舉止和個性。
I began once more to know myself; and when Mr. St. John demanded an account, which at present I was far too weak to render
我再次開始了解自己。圣·約翰要我談一下自己的事時--眼下我體質太弱沒法兒講，
I said after a brief pause... "Sir, I can give you no details to-night."
我稍稍頓了一頓后說，“先生，今晚我沒法給你細講了。”
"But what, then," said he, "do you expect me to do for you?"
“不過，”他說，“那么你希望我們為你做些什么呢？”
"Nothing," I replied. My strength sufficed for but short answers.
“沒有，”我回答。我的力氣只夠我作這樣簡要的回答。
Diana took the word: "Do you mean," she asked, "that we have now given you what aid you require?
黛安娜接過了話：“你的意思是，”她問，“我們既然已給了你所需要的幫助，
And that we may dismiss you to the moor and the rainy night?"
那就可以把你打發到荒原和雨夜中去了？”
I looked at her. She had, I thought, a remarkable countenance, instinct both with power and goodness.
我看了看她。我想她的臉很出眾，流溢著力量和善意。
I took sudden courage. Answering her compassionate gate with a smile, I said, "I will trust you.
我驀地鼓起勇氣，對她滿是同情的目光報之以微笑。我說：“我會相信你們。
If I were a masterless and stray dog, I know that you would not turn me from your hearth to-night: as it is, I really have no fear.
假如我是一條迷路的無主狗，我知道你們今天晚上不會把我從火爐旁攆走。其實，我真的并不害怕。
Do with me and for me as you like; but excuse me from much discourse -- my breath is short -- I feel a spasm when I speak."
隨你們怎么對待我照應我吧，但請原諒我不能講得太多--我的氣很短--一講話就痙攣。”
