WHILE leading the way upstairs, she recommended that I should hide the candle, and not make a noise; for her master had an odd notion about the chamber she would put me in, and never let anybody lodge there willingly. I asked the reason. She did not know, she answered: she had only lived there a year or two; and they had so many queer goings on, she could not begin to be curious.

領我上樓時，她建議我把蠟燭藏起來，不要弄出任何聲音。因為對她將帶我去的那個房間，她的主人有一非常奇怪的想法，而且從來沒有心甘情愿的讓誰住過這個房間。我問起原因，她卻說不上來，她說：她在那才住了一兩年，而他們又有很多異怪的行為，她也就不怎么奇怪了。

Too stupefied to be curious myself, I fastened my door and glanced round for the bed. The whole furniture consisted of a chair, a clothes-press, and a large oak case, with squares cut out near the top resembling coach windows. Having approached this structure, I looked inside, and perceived it to be a singular sort of old- fashioned couch, very conveniently designed to obviate the necessity for every member of the family having a room to himself. In fact, it formed a little closet, and the ledge of a window, which it enclosed, served as a table. I slid back the panelled sides, got in with my light, pulled them together again, and felt secure against the vigilance of Heathcliff, and every one else.

過于麻木的我忘記了好奇，我關上門就四下張望，急于尋找床的位置。一張椅子，一個大衣櫥，一個頂部刻著類似馬車窗戶的方格子的大橡木箱子，這便是所有的家具。走到大箱子跟前，我向里看去（透過頂部的方格），發現這是一個非常獨特的老式睡椅，設計非常巧妙地滿足了家庭成員對獨立空間的需求。事實上，它形成了一個小的隔間，有一個窗臺，可以當作桌子使用。我打開隔板，拿著我的燈進去了，然后又把隔板關上，覺得非常安全，不再擔心希斯克利夫的警惕，或是其他人的。

The ledge, where I placed my candle, had a few mildewed books piled up in one corner; and it was covered with writing scratched on the paint. This writing, however, was nothing but a name repeated in all kinds of characters, large and small - CATHERINE EARNSHAW, here and there varied to CATHERINE HEATHCLIFF, and then again to CATHERINE LINTON.

我把蠟燭放在窗臺上。窗臺的一角堆著一些書。封面上有手寫的字，這些字只不過是一個名字，不同的字體，或大或小――凱瑟琳·恩肖，有些地方則變成了凱瑟琳·希斯克利夫，或者是凱瑟琳·林頓。

In vapid listlessness I leant my head against the window, and continued spelling over Catherine Earnshaw - Heathcliff - Linton, till my eyes closed; but they had not rested five minutes when a glare of white letters started from the dark, as vivid as spectres - the air swarmed with Catherines; and rousing myself to dispel the obtrusive name, I discovered my candle-wick reclining on one of the antique volumes, and perfuming the place with an odour of roasted calf-skin. I snuffed it off, and, very ill at ease under the influence of cold and lingering nausea, sat up and spread open the injured tome on my knee. It was a Testament, in lean type, and smelling dreadfully musty: a fly-leaf bore the inscription - 'Catherine Earnshaw, her book,' and a date some quarter of a century back. I shut it, and took up another and another, till I had examined all. Catherine's library was select, and its state of dilapidation proved it to have been well used, though not altogether for a legitimate purpose: scarcely one chapter had escaped, a pen-and-ink commentary - at least the appearance of one - covering every morsel of blank that the printer had left. Some were detached sentences; other parts took the form of a regular diary, scrawled in an unformed, childish hand. At the top of an extra page (quite a treasure, probably, when first lighted on) I was greatly amused to behold an excellent caricature of my friend Joseph, - rudely, yet powerfully sketched. An immediate interest kindled within me for the unknown Catherine, and I began forthwith to decipher her faded hieroglyphics.

全身無力的我把頭倚在窗上，不停的念叨著凱瑟琳·恩肖――希斯克利夫――林頓，直到我的眼睛閉上。但是還沒五分鐘，黑暗中就閃耀出白色的字來，就像幽靈一樣活靈活現，空氣里擠滿了凱瑟琳的字樣。當我站起來去驅趕這些令人討厭的名字時，我發現蠟燭芯掉在一冊古董一樣的書上。書被烤得發出一股烤牛皮的味道。我吹滅蠟芯，由于天冷和這經久不散的令人惡心的味道，我覺得非常的不舒服。我坐了起來，把那本燒壞的書放到膝上，翻開，是本斜體的《圣經》，有很濃的發霉的味道。書的底頁上有題字：“凱瑟琳·恩肖的書”，日期則是二十幾年前的。我合上它，開始一本一本的翻，直到我把所有的都看過了。凱瑟琳的藏書是精心挑選的，而書的破損程度則說明它們都被很好的利用了，即便不是所有的都被合理運用，幾乎每一章都有鋼筆寫的評論，至少看上去是這樣的，在空白的地方留下一些墨跡。有的是散落的句子，有的地方則是以日記出現，都是以一種不定型的，孩子般的筆跡寫下的。在一張單獨的紙上（當第一次呈現的時候，當然非常珍貴），我很開心地看見一張極好的我的朋友約瑟夫的漫畫――畫得非常的粗，但是很逼真，這使讓我對這個陌生的凱瑟琳立即產生了興趣，于是我開始毫不猶豫的破解她那些已經退色的文字。

'An awful Sunday,' commenced the paragraph beneath. 'I wish my father were back again. Hindley is a detestable substitute - his conduct to Heathcliff is atrocious - H. and I are going to rebel - we took our initiatory step this evening.

“非常討厭的星期天，”接下來這段寫道，“我希望父親再次回來。欣德利是一個非常討厭的替代品――他對希斯克利夫的態度非常粗暴――希和我準備反抗――我們今天晚上會進行第一步。