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There! Be a good girl,' he said, patting her on the head, and regarding her as it were by stealth with a disturbed and doubtful look. 'Go to Richards! Go!'
His little daughter hesitated for another instant as though she would have clung about him still, or had some lingering hope that he might raise her in his arms and kiss her. She looked up in his face once more. He thought how like her expression was then, to what it had been when she looked round at the Doctor - that night - and instinctively dropped her hand and turned away.
“好吧！做一個好孩子！”他撫摸她的頭，好像偷偷地用煩亂不安與疑惑不定的眼光望著她，說道，“到理查茲那里去吧！去吧！”
他的小女兒又遲疑了片刻，仿佛她還想偎依在他的身邊或者還懷著一線希望：他會把她舉起來，抱到他的懷中，并親親她。她又一次抬起眼睛望著他的臉孔。他想，她現在的表情跟她那天夜里環視四周，最后望著醫生時的表情是多么相像啊，于是他就本能地放下她的手，走開了。
It was not difficult to perceive that Florence was at a great disadvantage in her father's presence. It was not only a constraint upon the child's mind, but even upon the natural grace and freedom of her actions. As she sported and played about her baby brother that night, her manner was seldom so winning and so pretty as it naturally was, and sometimes when in his pacing to and fro, he came near her (she had, perhaps, for the moment, forgotten him) it changed upon the instant and became forced and embarrassed.Still, Polly persevered with all the better heart for seeing this; and, judging of Mr Dombey by herself, had great confidence in the mute appeal of poor little Florence's mourning dress.' It's hard indeed,' thought Polly, 'if he takes only to one little motherless child, when he has another, and that a girl, before his eyes.'
不難察覺，弗洛倫斯在她父親面前處于極為不利的地位。它不僅使孩子在心理上感到拘束，而且也使她不能舉止自然、優美和行動自由。波利看到這種情景，但仍然保持勇氣，沒有氣餒；根據她自己對董貝先生的判斷，她對可憐的小弗洛倫斯的喪服所發出的默默的呼吁寄托著很大的希望。“如果他只愛一個失去母親的孩子，而另一個失去母親的孩子就在他的眼前，那真是太殘酷了，”波利想道。
So, Polly kept her before his eyes, as long as she could, and managed so well with little Paul, as to make it very plain that he was all the livelier for his sister's company. When it was time to withdraw upstairs again, she would have sent Florence into the inner room to say good night to her father, but the child was timid and drew back; and when she urged her again, said, spreading her hands before her eyes, as if to shut out her own unworthiness , 'Oh no, no! He don't want me. He don't want me!'The little altercation between them had attracted the notice of Mr Dombey, who inquired from the table where he was sitting at his wine, what the matter was.
'Miss Florence was afraid of interrupting, Sir, if she came in to say good-night,' said Richards.
所以，波利就在他的眼前把她盡量留得長久一些，又把小保羅照管得很好，這樣顯然可以看出，他在他姐姐的陪伴下，更加活潑了。到了需要重新回到樓上去的時候，她本想送弗洛倫斯到里面的房間去向她的父親說聲晚安，但這女孩子膽怯，退回來了；當波利又催促她去的時候，她伸開手掌捂住眼睛，仿佛要把自己微賤的形象給遮蓋掉似的，“啊，不，不！他不需要我！他不需要我！”
注釋：perceive vt. 察覺，感覺；理解；認知 vi. 感到，感知；認識到
例句：
1. I can't perceive any difference between these coins.
我看不出這些硬幣有什么差別。
2. At first I couldn't perceive what he meant.
起先我不理解他說的意思。
