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Diana offered to teach me German.
黛安娜愿意教我德語，
I liked to learn of her:
我喜歡跟她學。
I saw the part of instructress pleased and suited her;
我發覺教師的角色很適合她，使她高興，
that of scholar pleased and suited me no less.
而同樣學生的角色也適合我，使我高興。
Our natures dovetailed: mutual affection -- of the strongest kind -- was the result.
我們的個性十分吻合，結果彼此之間感情深厚。
They discovered I could draw:
她們知道我能作畫，
their pencils and colour-boxes were immediately at my service.
就立刻把鉛筆和顏料盒供我使用。
My skill, greater in this one point than theirs, surprised and charmed them.
這項唯一勝過她們的技能，使她們感到驚奇，也讓她們著了迷。
Mary would sit and watch me by the hour together:
我繪畫時瑪麗會坐著看我作畫，
then she would take lessons; and a docile, intelligent, assiduous pupil she made.
隨后也學了起來，而且是位聰明、聽話、用功的學生。
Thus occupied, and mutually entertained, days passed like hours, and weeks like days.
就這樣忙這忙那，彼此都得到了樂趣，一周的日子像一天，一天的時間像一小時那么過去了。
As to Mr. St John, the intimacy which had arisen so naturally and rapidly between me and his sisters did not extend to him.
至于圣·約翰先生，我與他妹妹之間自然而迅速形成的親密無間的感情，與他無緣。
One reason of the distance yet observed between us was,
我們之間顯得疏遠的一個原因，
that he was comparatively seldom at home:
是他難得在家，
a large proportion of his time appeared devoted to visiting the sick and poor among the scattered population of his parish.
一大部份時間都奔忙于他教區分散的居民之間，走訪病人和窮人。
No weather seemed to hinder him in these pastoral excursions:
任何天氣似乎都阻擋不住牧師的短途行程。
rain or fair, he would, when his hours of morning study were over,
不管晴天還是雨天，每天早晨的學習時間一結束，
take his hat, and, followed by his father's old pointer, Carlo, go out on his mission of love or duty --
他會戴上帽子，帶著他父親的老獵狗卡羅，出門開始了出于愛好或是職責的使命
I scarcely know in which light he regarded it.
我幾乎不知道他怎樣看待它。
