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On a chair by the bedside were all my own things, clean and dry.
我床邊的椅子上擺著我所有的衣物，又干凈又干燥。
My black silk frock hung against the wall.
我的黑絲上衣掛在墻上。
The traces of the bog were removed from it; the creases left by the wet smoothed out: it was quite decent.
泥沼的印跡已經洗去，潮濕留下的褶皺己經熨平，看上去很不錯了。
My very shoes and stockings were purified and rendered presentable.
我的鞋子和襪子已洗得干干凈凈，很是象樣了。
There were the means of washing in the room, and a comb and brush to smooth my hair.
房子里有流洗的工具，有一把梳子和一把刷子可把頭發梳理整齊。
After a weary process, and resting every five minutes, I succeeded in dressing myself.
我疲乏地掙扎了一番，每隔五分鐘休息一下，終于穿好了衣服。
My clothes hung loose on me; for I was much wasted,
因為消瘦，衣服穿在身上很寬松，
but I covered deficiencies with a shawl, and once more, clean and respectable looking
不過我用披肩掩蓋了這個不足，于是我再一次清清爽爽體體面面了，
no speck of the dirt, no trace of the disorder I so hated, and which seemed so to degrade me, left
沒有一絲我最討厭、并似乎很降低我身份的塵土和凌亂，
I crept down a stone staircase with the aid of the banisters, to a narrow low passage, and found my way presently to the kitchen.
我扶著欄桿，爬下了石頭樓梯，到了一條低矮窄小的過道，立刻進了廚房。
It was full of the fragrance of new bread and the warmth of a generous fire. Hannah was baking.
廚房里彌漫著新鮮面包的香氣和熊熊爐火的暖意。漢娜正在烤面包。
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education:
眾所周知，偏見很難從沒有用教育松過土施過肥的心田里根除，
they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
它像野草鉆出石縫那樣頑強地在那兒生長。
Hannah had been cold and stiff, indeed, at the first: latterly she had begun to relent a little;
說實在，起初漢娜冷淡生硬。近來開始和氣一點了，
and when she saw me come in tidy and well-dressed, she even smiled.
而這回見我衣冠楚楚，竟笑了起來。
