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What did St. John Rivers think of this earthly angel?
圣·約翰·里弗斯對(duì)這位人間天使有什么想法呢？
I naturally asked myself that question as I saw him turn to her and look at her;
我看見他向她轉(zhuǎn)過臉去并瞧著她時(shí)，自然而然地提出了這個(gè)問題，
and, as naturally, I sought the answer to the inquiry in his countenance.
我也一樣自然地從他的面部表情上尋找這個(gè)問題的答案。
He had already withdrawn his eye from the Peri, and was looking at a humble tuft of daisies which grew by the wicket.
他已把目光從這位仙女身上移開，正瞧著長(zhǎng)在門邊的一簇不起眼的雛菊。
"A lovely evening, but late for you to be out alone," he said, as he crushed the snowy heads of the closed flowers with his foot.
“是個(gè)可愛的傍晚，不過你一個(gè)人外出就有些太晚了，”他一面說，一面用腳把沒有開的雪白的花頭踩爛了。
"Oh, I only came home from S----" (she mentioned the name of a large town some twenty miles distant) "this afternoon.
“呵，我下午剛從Ｓ市回來（她提了一下相距大約二十英里的一個(gè)城市）。
Papa told me you had opened your school, and that the new mistress was come;
爸爸告訴我你己經(jīng)開辦了一所學(xué)校，新的女教師已經(jīng)來了，
and so I put on my bonnet after tea, and ran up the valley to see her: this is she?" pointing to me.
所以我用完茶后戴上草帽跑到山谷來看她了。就是她嗎？”她指著我。
"It is," said St. John.
“是的，”圣·約翰說。
"Do you think you shall like Morton?" she asked of me, with a direct and naive simplicity of tone and manner, pleasing, if child-like.
“你覺得會(huì)喜歡莫爾頓嗎？”她問我，語(yǔ)調(diào)和舉止里帶著一種直率而幼稚的單純，雖然有些孩子氣，但討人喜歡。
"I hope I shall. I have many inducements to do so."
“我希望我會(huì)這樣。我很想這么做。”
"Did you find your scholars as attentive as you expected?"
“你發(fā)現(xiàn)學(xué)生像你預(yù)料的那么專心么？”
"Quite."
“十分專心。”
"Do you like your house?"
“你喜歡你的房子嗎？”
"Very much."
“很喜歡。”
"Have I furnished it nicely?"
“我布置得好嗎？”
"Very nicely, indeed."
“真的很好。”
"And made a good choice of an attendant for you in Alice Wood?"
“而且選了愛麗絲．伍德來服侍你，不錯(cuò)吧？”
"You have indeed. She is teachable and handy."
“確實(shí)這樣。她可以管教，也很派用處。
(This then, I thought, is Miss Oliver, the heiress; favoured, it seems, in the gifts of fortune, as well as in those of nature!
（那么我想這位就是繼承人奧利弗小姐了。她似乎既在家產(chǎn)上又在那些天生麗質(zhì)上得到了偏愛！
What happy combination of the planets presided over her birth, I wonder?)
我不知道她的出生碰上了什么行星的幸運(yùn)組合呢？）”
