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"How far is Thornfield Hall from here?"
桑菲尔德离这儿有多远？
I asked of the ostler.
我问旅店侍马人。
"Just two miles, ma'am, across the fields."
“穿过田野走两英里就到了，小姐。”
"My journey is closed," I thought to myself.
“我的旅程结束了，”我暗自思忖。
I got out of the coach, gave a box I had into the ostler's charge, to be kept till I called for it;
我跳下马车，把身边的一个盒子交给侍马人保管，回头再来提取，
paid my fare; satisfied the coachman, and was going: the brightening day gleamed on the sign of the inn,
付了车钱，给足了马夫，便启程上路了。黎明的曙光照在旅店的招牌上，
and I read in gilt letters, "The Rochester Arms."
我看到了镀金的字母“罗切斯特纹章”，
My heart leapt up: I was already on my master's very lands.
心便砰砰乱跳，原来我已来到我主人的地界。
It fell again: the thought struck it: --
但转念一想，又心如止水了。
"Your master himself may be beyond the British Channel, for aught you know:
“也许你的主人在英吉利海峡彼岸。
and then, if he is at Thornfield Hall, towards which you hasten, who besides him is there?
况且，就是他在你匆匆前往的桑菲尔德府，除了他还有谁也在那里呢？
His lunatic wife: and you have nothing to do with him: you dare not speak to him or seek his presence.
还有他发了疯的妻子，而你与他毫不相干。你不敢同他说话，或者前去找他。
You have lost your labour -- you had better go no farther," urged the monitor. "
你劳而无功——你还是别再往前走吧，”冥冥中的监视者敦促道。“
Ask information of the people at the inn; they can give you all you seek:
从旅店里的人那里探听一下消息吧，他们会提供你寻觅的一切情况，
they can solve your doubts at once.
立刻解开你的疑团，
Go up to that man, and inquire if Mr. Rochester be at home."
走到那个人跟前去，问问罗切斯特先生在不在家。”
The suggestion was sensible, and yet I could not force myself to act on it.
这个建议很明智，但我无法迫使自己去实施。
I so dreaded a reply that would crush me with despair.
我害怕得到一个让我绝望的回答。
To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.
延长疑虑就是延长希望。
I might yet once more see the Hall under the ray of her star.
我也许能再见一见星光照耀下的府第。
There was the stile before me -- the very fields through which I had hurried, blind, deaf,
我面前还是那道踏阶——还是那片田野，那天早晨我逃离桑菲尔德，急急忙忙穿过这片田野，不顾一切，漫无目的，心烦意乱，
distracted with a revengeful fury tracking and scourging me,
被一种复仇的愤怒跟踪着，痛苦地折磨着。
on the morning I fled from Thornfield:
呵，我还没决定走哪条路，
ere I well knew what course I had resolved to take, I was in the midst of them.
就己置身于这片田野之中了。
