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She again regarded me with a surprised stare.
她再次詫異地打量著我。
"I believe," she said, "I was quite mista'en in my thoughts of you:
“我相信，”她說，“我完全把你看錯了，
but there is so mony cheats goes about, you mun forgie me."
不過這里來往的騙子很多，你得原諒我。”
"And though," I continued, rather severely,
“而且，”我往下說，口氣頗有些嚴厲，
"you wished to turn me from the door, on a night when you should not have shut out a dog."
“盡管你要在一個連條狗都不該攆走的夜晚，把我趕出門外。”
"Well, it was hard: but what can a body do?
“嗯，是有點狠心。可是叫人怎么辦呢？
I thought more o' th' childer nor of mysel: poor things!
我想得更多的是孩子們而不是我自己，他們也怪可憐的。
They've like nobody to tak' care on 'em but me. I'm like to look sharpish."
除了我沒有人照應(yīng)。我總該當心些。”
I maintained a grave silence for some minutes.
我沉著臉幾分鐘沒有吱聲。
"You munnut think too hardly of me," she again remarked.
“你別把我想得太壞，”她又說。
"But I do think hardly of you," I said; "and I'll tell you why -- not so much because you refused to give me shelter
“不過我確實把你想得很壞”，我說，“而且我告訴你為什么--倒不是因為你不許我投宿，
or regarded me as an impostor, as because you just now made it a species of reproach that I had no 'brass' and no house.
或者把我看成了騙子，而是因為你剛才把我沒‘銅子兒’沒房子當成了一種恥辱。
Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am;
有些在世的好人像我一樣窮得一個子兒也沒有。
and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime."
如果你是個基督徒，你就不該把貧困看作罪過。”
"No more I ought," said she: "Mr. St. John tells me so too;
“以后不該這樣了，”她說，“圣·約翰先生也是這么同我說的。
and I see I wor wrang, but I've clear a different notion on you now to what I had.
我知道自己錯了，但是，我現(xiàn)在對你的看法跟以前明顯不同了。
You look a raight down dacent little crater."
你看來完全是個體面的小家伙。”
"That will do -- I forgive you now. Shake hands."
“那行了--我現(xiàn)在原諒你了，握握手吧。”
She put her floury and horny hand into mine;
她把沾了面粉布滿老繭的手塞進我手里，
another and heartier smile illumined her rough face, and from that moment we were friends.
她粗糙的臉上閃起了一個更親切的笑容，從那時起我們便成了朋友。
