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Bessie now endeavoured to persuade her to take a sedative draught.
此刻，贝茜竭力劝她服用镇静剂，费了好大劲才说服她。
She succeeded with difficulty.
里德太太很快镇静下来了。
Soon after, Mrs. Reed grew more composed, and sank into a dozing state. I then left her.
陷入了昏睡状态，随后我便离开了她。
More than ten days elapsed before I had again any conversation with her.
十多天过去了我才再次同她交谈。
She continued either delirious or lethargic.
她仍旧昏迷不醒或是恹恹无力。
And the doctor forbade everything which could painfully excite her.
医生禁止一切会痛苦地使她激动的事情。
Meantime, I got on as well as I could with Georgiana and Eliza.
同时，我尽力跟乔治亚娜和伊丽莎处好关系。
They were very cold, indeed, at first.
说实在她们起初十分冷淡。
Eliza would sit half the day sewing, reading, or writing, and scarcely utter a word either to me or her sister.
伊丽莎会老半天坐着，缝呀，读呀，写呀，对我或是她妹妹不吭一声。
Georgiana would chatter nonsense to her canary bird by the hour, and take no notice of me.
这时候乔治亚娜会对着她的金丝雀胡说一通，而不理睬我。
But I was determined not to seem at a loss for occupation or amusement.
但我决计不显出无所事事，或是不知如何消磨时光的样子。
I had brought my drawing materials with me, and they served me for both.
我带来了绘画工具，既使自己有事可做，又有了消遣。
Provided with a case of pencils, and some sheets of paper, I used to take a seat apart from them, near the window,
我拿了画笔和画纸，远离她们，在一个靠窗的地方坐下，
and busy myself in sketching fancy vignettes,
忙乎着画一些幻想的人头象，
representing any scene that happened momentarily to shape itself in the ever-shifting kaleidoscope of imagination,
表现瞬息万变万花筒似的想象世界中刹那间出现的景象。
a glimpse of sea between two rocks, the rising moon, and a ship crossing its disk, a group of reeds and water-flags,
例如，两块岩石之间的一片大海，初升的月亮，横穿月亮的一条船，一丛芦苇和景象，
and a naiad's head, crowned with lotus-flowers, rising out of them,
一个仙女头戴荷花从中探出头来，
an elf sitting in a hedge-sparrow's nest, under a wreath of hawthorn-bloom.
一个小精灵坐在一圈山楂花下的篱雀窝里。
One morning I fell to sketching a face.
一天早晨，我开始画一张脸。
