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I went to England.
后來，我去了英國。
At first I met with no encouragement whatever, and came very near jumping off London Bridge.
剛開始，無論我做什么，都沒有任何轉機，還差點從倫敦橋上跳下去。
I went into a workshop to earn money enough to come home with: there I met the man I wanted.
再后來，我又去了家工廠，賺足能帶回家的錢，就在那里，我遇見了希望見到的人。
To make a long story short, I've brought home 50,000 pounds with me, and here I am.
長話短說，我這次帶回五萬英鎊，喏，情況就是這樣。
"Good!" I exclaimed. “Yes,” said he, and the best of it is, she knows nothing about it.
“很好，”我叫了起來。“是的，”他說，最好的是，我老婆壓根不知道這些。
She has been disappointed so often that I concluded I would not write to her about my unexpected good luck.
她一直很沮喪，所以，我決定不寫信告訴她我走了天大的好運，
When I got my money, though, I started for home at once.
盡管一拿到錢，我立馬準備回家。
"And now, I suppose, you will make her happy?"
“那么，現在，你會使她幸福嗎？”
"Happy!" he replied; why, you don't know anything about it!
“當然！”他回答，哎呀，你什么也不知道！
She's worked night and day since I have been in England, trying to support herself and the children decently.
自從我去英國后，她從早到晚干活支撐這個家，想讓孩子們活得更好些。
They paid her thirteen cents apiece for making shirts, and that's the way she has lived half the time.
她加工每件襯衫只能拿十三美分的報酬，那就是她上半輩子的活命方式。
She'll come down to the depot to meet me in a gingham dress and a shawl a hundred years old, and she'll think she's dressed up!
她會穿著一身粗布衣衫，戴條怕有百年光景的破圍巾來車站接我。她覺得，她穿得不錯了，
Perhaps she won't have any fine dresses in a week or so, eh?
或許一周左右，她根本不會買好點的衣服，呃？
The stranger then strode down the passageway again,
陌生人隨后又邁步走向過道，
and getting in a corner where he seemed to suppose that he was out of sight,
蜷縮到一處拐角，或許他覺得這樣做，別人才無法看見他，
went through the strangest pantomime,—laughing,putting his mouth into the drollest shapes, and swinging himself back and forth in the limited space.
接著又開始表演啞劇——大笑，用嘴做出各種搞笑怪狀，在并不寬敞的空間前后搖晃不停。
