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My eye involuntarily wandered to the grey church tower near the gates, and I asked,
我的目光不由自主地飄向了大門邊灰色的教堂塔樓，我問道，
"Is he with Damer de Rochester, sharing the shelter of his narrow marble house?"
“難道他已隨戴默爾·德·羅切斯特而去，共住在狹窄的大理石房子里？”
Some answer must be had to these questions.
這些問題都得找到答案。
I could find it nowhere but at the inn, and thither, ere long, I returned.
而除了旅店，別處是找不到的。于是不久我便返回那里。
The host himself brought my breakfast into the parlour.
老板親自把早餐端到客廳里來，
I requested him to shut the door and sit down: I had some questions to ask him.
我請他關了門，坐下來。我有些問題要問他，
But when he complied, I scarcely knew how to begin; such horror had I of the possible answers.
但待他答應之后，我卻不知道從何開始了。我對可能得到的回答懷著一種恐俱感，
And yet the spectacle of desolation I had just left prepared me in a measure for a tale of misery.
然而剛才看到的那番荒涼景象，為一個悲慘的故事作好了一定的準備。
The host was a respectable-looking, middle-aged man.
老板看上去是位體面的中年人。
"You know Thornfield Hall, of course?"
“你當然知道桑菲爾德府了？”
I managed to say at last.
我終于啟齒了。
"Yes, ma'am; I lived there once."
“是的，小姐，我以前在那里住過?！?span style="white-space:normal;">
"Did you?" Not in my time, I thought: you are a stranger to me.
“是嗎？”不是我在的時候，我想。我覺得他很陌生。
"I was the late Mr. Rochester's butler," he added.
“我是已故的羅切斯特先生的管家，”他補充道。
The late! I seem to have received, with full force, the blow I had been trying to evade.
已故的！我覺得我避之不迭的打擊重重地落到我頭上了。
"The late!" gasped. "Is he dead?"
“已故的！”我透不過氣來了。“他死了？”
"I mean the present gentleman, Mr. Edward's father," he explained.
“我說的是現在的老爺，愛德華先生的父親，”他解釋說。
I breathed again: my blood resumed its flow.
我又喘過氣來了，我的血液也繼續流動。
Fully assured by these words that Mr. Edward -- my Mr. Rochester
他的這番話使我確信，愛德華先生——我的羅切斯特先生
(God bless him, wherever he was!) -- was at least alive: was, in short, "the present gentleman."
（無論他在何方，愿上帝祝福他?。┲辽龠€活著，總之還是“現在的老爺”，
Gladdening words!
（多讓人高興的話?。?span style="white-space:normal;">
It seemed I could hear all that was to come -- whatever the disclosures might be -- with comparative tranquillity.
我似乎覺得，不管他會透露什么消息，我會比較平靜地去傾聽。
Since he was not in the grave, I could bear, I thought, to learn that he was at the Antipodes.
我想，就是知道他在新西蘭和澳大利亞，我都能忍受。
