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"What, you have got up!" she said. "You are better, then. You may sit you down in my chair on the hearthstone, if you will."
“什么，你已經起來了？”她說，“那么你好些了。要是你愿意，你可以坐在爐邊我的椅子上。”
She pointed to the rocking-chair: I took it.
她指了指那把搖椅。我坐了下來。
She bustled about, examining me every now and then with the corner of her eye.
她忙碌著，不時從眼角瞟我。
Turning to me, as she took some loaves from the oven,
她一邊從烤爐里取出面包，
she asked bluntly, "Did you ever go a-begging afore you came here?"
一面轉向我生硬地問道：“你到這個地方來之前也討過飯嗎？”
I was indignant for a moment; but remembering that anger was out of the question,
我一時很生氣，但想起發(fā)火是不行的，
and that I had indeed appeared as a beggar to her, I answered quietly, but still not without a certain marked firmness
何況在她看來我曾像個乞丐，于是便平心靜氣地回答了她，不過仍帶著明顯的強硬口氣，
"You are mistaken in supposing me a beggar. I am no beggar; any more than yourself or your young ladies."
“你錯把我當成乞丐了，跟你自己或者你的小姐們一樣，我不是什么乞丐。”
After a pause she said, "I dunnut understand that: you've like no house, nor no brass, I guess?"
她頓了一下后說：“那我就不大明白了，你象是既沒有房子，也沒有銅子兒？”
"The want of house or brass (by which I suppose you mean money) does not make a beggar in your sense of the word."
“沒有房子或銅子兒（我猜你指的是錢）并不就成了你說的那個意思上的乞丐。”
"Are you book-learned?" she inquired presently. "Yes, very."
“你讀過書嗎？”她立刻問。“是的，讀過不少書。”
"But you've never been to a boarding-school?"
“不過你從來沒有進過寄宿學校吧？”
"I was at a boarding-school eight years."
“我在寄宿學校呆了八年。”
