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In spite of her choked-back tears, Scarlett thrilled to the never-failing magic of her mother’s touch, to the faint fragrance of lemon verbena sachet that came from her rustling silk dress. To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O’Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.
不管思嘉怎樣強忍著眼中的淚水，她一接觸母親的愛撫，從她綢衣上隱隱聞到那個檸檬色草編香囊中的芳馨，便被那永不失效的魅力感動得震顫起來。對于思嘉來說，愛倫·奧哈拉周圍有一種令人吃驚的東西，房子里有一種不可思議的東西同她在一起，使她敬畏、著迷，也使她平靜。
Gerald helped his wife into the carriage and gave orders to the coachman to drive carefully. Toby, who had handled Gerald’s horses for twenty years, pushed out his lips in mute indignation at being told how to conduct his own business. Driving off, with Mammy beside him, each was a perfect picture of pouting African disapproval.
杰拉爾德扶他的太太上了馬車，吩咐車夫一路小心。車夫托比駕馭杰拉爾德的馬已經２０年了，他撅著嘴對這種吩咐表示抗議----還用得著你來提醒我這個老把式哪！他趕著車動身子，嬤嬤坐在他身旁，剛好構成一副非洲人撅嘴使氣的絕妙圖畫。
“If I didn’t do so much for those trashy Slatterys that they’d have to pay money for elsewhere,” fumed Gerald, “they’d be willing to sell me their miserable few acres of swamp bottom, and the County would be well rid of them.” Then, brightening, in anticipation of one of his practical jokes: “Come daughter, let’s go tell Pork that instead of buying Dilcey, I’ve sold him to John Wilkes.”
“要是我不給斯萊特里那些下流坯幫那么大的忙----換了別人本來是要報酬的。”杰拉爾德氣憤地說，"他們就會愿意把沼澤邊上那幾英畝賴地賣給我，縣里也就會把他們擺脫了。"隨后，他面露喜色，想起一個有益的玩笑來：“女兒，來吧，咱們去告訴波克，說我沒有買下迪爾茜，而是把他賣給約翰·威爾克斯了。"
He tossed the reins of his horse to a small pickaninny standing near and started up the steps. He had already forgotten Scarlett’s heartbreak and his mind was only on plaguing his valet. Scarlett slowly climbed the steps after him, her feet leaden. She thought that, after all, a mating between herself and Ashley could be no queerer than that of her father and Ellen Robillard O’Hara. As always, she wondered how her loud, insensitive father had managed to marry a woman like her mother, for never were two people further apart in birth, breeding and habits of mind.
他把韁繩扔給站在旁邊的一個黑小子，然后大步走上臺階，他已經忘記了思嘉的傷心事，一心想去捉弄他的管家。思嘉跟在他后面，慢騰騰地爬上臺階，兩只腳沉重得像鉛一般。她想，無論如何，要是她自己和艾希禮結為夫妻，至少不會比她父親這一對顯得更不相稱的。如往常那樣，她覺得奇怪，怎么這位大喊大叫，沒心計的父親會設法娶上了像她母親那樣的一個女人呢？因為從出身、教養和性格來說，世界上再沒有比他們彼此距離更遠的兩個人了。
