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WHEN THE TWINS left Scarlett standing on the porch of Tara and the last sound of flying hooves had died away, she went back to her chair like a sleepwalker. Her face felt stiff as from pain and her mouth actually hurt from having stretched it, unwillingly, in smiles to prevent the twins from learning her secret. She sat down wearily, tucking one foot under her, and her heart swelled up with misery, until it felt too large for her bosom.
思嘉站在塔拉農場的走廊上目送那對孿生兄弟離開，直到飛跑的馬蹄聲已隱隱消失，她才如夢游人似地回到椅子上去。她覺得得臉頰發僵仿佛有什么痛處，但嘴巴卻真的酸痛了，因為是剛才很長一段時間她在咧著嘴假裝微笑，為了不讓那對孿生子發覺她內心的秘密。她疲憊地坐下，將一條腿盤起來，這時心臟難受得發脹，好像快要從胸膛里爆出來一般似的。
It beat with odd little jerks; her hands were cold, and a feeling of disaster oppressed her. There were pain and bewilderment in her face, the bewilderment of a pampered child who has always had her own way for the asking and who now, for the first time, was in contact with the unpleasantness of life.
它古怪地輕輕跳著；她的兩手冰涼，一種大禍臨頭的感覺沉重地壓迫著她。她臉上流露出痛苦和惶惑的神情，這種惶惑說明，她這個嬌寵慣了、經常有求必應的孩子如今可碰到生活中不愉快的事了。
Ashley to marry Melanie Hamilton!
艾希禮將同媚蘭·漢密爾頓結婚了！
Oh, it couldn’t be true! The twins were mistaken. They were playing one of their jokes on her. Ashley couldn’t, couldn’t be in love with her. Nobody could, not with a mousy little person like Melanie. Scarlett recalled with contempt Melanie’s thin childish figure, her serious heart-shaped face that was plain almost to homeliness. And Ashley couldn’t have seen her in months. He hadn’t been in Atlanta more than twice since the house party he gave last year at Twelve Oaks. No, Ashley couldn’t be in love with Melanie, because—oh, she couldn’t be mistaken!—because he was in love with her! She, Scarlett, was the one he loved—she knew it!
唔，這不可能是真的！那對孿生子準搞錯了。他們又在找她開玩笑呢。艾希禮不會愛上她。誰也不會的。同媚蘭這樣一個耗子似的小個兒。思嘉懷著輕蔑的情緒想起媚蘭瘦小得像孩子的身材，她那張嚴肅而平淡得幾乎有點丑的雞心形的臉，而且可能艾希禮是好幾個月沒見到她了。自從去年“十二橡樹”村舉行家中大宴會以來，她頂多只到過亞特蘭大兩次。不，艾希禮不可能同媚蘭戀愛，因為----唔，她決不會錯的----因為他在愛她呀！她思嘉才是他所愛的那個人呢—-她知道！
