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"Do you mean to say," he asked, "that you are completely isolated from every connection?"
“你的意思是說，”他問，“你孤孤單單，沒有一個親朋？”
"I do. Not a tie links me to any living thing: not a claim do I possess to admittance under any roof in England."
“是的。沒有一根紐帶把我同哪位活著的人維系在一起，我也沒有任何權利走進英國的任何人家里？”
"A most singular position at your age!"
“像你這樣年紀，這種狀況是絕無僅有的。”
Here I saw his glance directed to my hands, which were folded on the table before me.
說到這里我看到他的目光掃到了我手上，這時我雙乎交叉，放在面前的桌子上。
I wondered what he sought there: his words soon explained the quest.
我不知道他在找什么。但他的話立刻解釋了那種探尋。
"You have never been married? You are a spinster?"
“你沒有結婚？是個單身女人？”
Diana laughed. "Why, she can't he above seventeen or eighteen years old, St. John," said she.
黛安娜大笑起來。“嗨，她不會超過十七、十八歲，圣·約翰。”她說。
"I am near nineteen: but I am not married. No."
“我快十九了，不過沒有結過婚，沒有。”
I felt a burning glow mount to my face; for bitter and agitating recollections were awakened by the allusion to marriage.
我只覺得臉上一陣熱辣辣的火燒，一提起結婚又勾起了我痛苦和興奮的回憶。
They all saw the embarrassment and the emotion.
他們都看出了我的發窘和激動。
Diana and Mary relieved me by turning their eyes elsewhere than to my crimsoned visage;
黛安娜和瑪麗把目光從我漲得通紅的臉上轉向別處，以便使我得到寬慰，
but the colder and sterner brother continued to gaze, till the trouble he had excited forced out tears as well as colour.
但是她們那位有些冷漠和嚴厲的哥哥卻繼續盯著我，直至他引起的麻煩弄得我既流淚又變臉。
"Where did you last reside?" he now asked.
你以前住在什么地方？”他此刻又問了。
"You are too inquisitive, St. John," murmured Mary in a low voice;
“你也太愛打聽了，圣·約翰，”瑪麗低聲咕噥著。
but he leaned over the table and required an answer by a second firm and piercing look.
但他帶著誘人肺腑的堅定的眼光，將身子俯過桌子，要求得到回答。
