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The woman rose: she opened a door, through which I dimly saw a passage:
那妇人站起来，开了门。从门外望进去，我依稀看到了一条过道。
soon I heard her stir a fire in an inner room; she presently came back.
不一会我听她在内间拨着火，她马上又返回了。
"Ah, childer!" said she, "it fair troubles me to go into yond' room now:
“呵，孩子们！”她说，“这会儿进那边的房间真让我难受。
it looks so lonesome wi' the chair empty and set back in a corner."
椅子空空的，都靠后摆在角落里，看上去很冷清。”
She wiped her eyes with her apron: the two girls, grave before, looked sad now.
她用围裙揩了揩眼睛，两位神情严肃的姑娘这时也显得很关心。
"But he is in a better place," continued Hannah:
“不过他在一个更好的地方了，”汉娜继续说：
"we shouldn't wish him here again. And then, nobody need to have a quieter death nor he had."
“我们不该再盼他在这里。而且，谁也不会比他死得更安详了。”
"You say he never mentioned us?" inquired one of the ladies.
“你说他从没提起过我们？”一位小姐问。
"He hadn't time, bairn: he was gone in a minute, was your father.
“他来不及提了，孩子，他一下子就去了--你们的父亲。
He had been a bit ailing like the day before, but naught to signify;
像前一天一样，他一直有点痛，但不严重。
and when Mr. St. John asked if he would like either o' ye to be sent for, he fair laughed at him.
圣·约翰先生问他，是否要派人去叫你们两个中的一个回来，他还笑他呢。
He began again with a bit of a heaviness in his head the next day -- that is, a fortnight sin'
第二天他的头开始有点沉重--那是两周以前，
and he went to sleep and niver wakened: he wor a'most stark when your brother went into t' chamber and fand him.
他睡过去了，再也没有醒来。你们兄弟进房间发现他的时候，他差不多已经咽气了。
Ah, childer! that's t' last o' t' old stock -- for ye and Mr. St. John is like of different soart to them 'at's gone;
呵，孩子！那是最后一个老派人了--因为跟那些过世的人相比，你和圣·约翰先生似是另一类人，
for all your mother wor mich i' your way, and a'most as book-learned.
你母亲完全也像你们一样，差不多一样有学问。
She wor the pictur' o' ye, Mary: Diana is more like your father."
你活像她，玛丽，黛安娜像你们父亲。”
