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So we were not surprised when Homer Barron--the streets had been finished some time since--was gone. We were a little disappointed that there was not a public blowing-off, but we believed that he had gone on to prepare for Miss Emily's coming, or to give her a chance to get rid of the cousins. (By that time it was a cabal, and we were all Miss Emily's allies to help circumvent the cousins.) Sure enough, after another week they departed. And, as we had expected all along, within three days Homer Barron was back in town. A neighbor saw the Negro man admit him at the kitchen door at dusk one evening.
霍默·巴伦走了后，我们一点也不感到惊奇，因为街道铺设工程完工已经有好一阵子了。让我们感到有点失望的是缺少了吹吹打打的欢送场面，但我们还是相信霍默·巴伦走了是去准备迎娶艾米莉小姐，或者给她一个机会好打发走两个堂妹。（当时我们形成了一个私党，力挺艾米莉小姐，帮她收拾这对堂姐妹。）一点不错，过了一星期，这对堂姐妹就走了。不出所料，霍默·巴伦又回来到了镇上。一个邻居目睹了艾来莉家的黑仆在一个黄昏把他从厨房门接了进去。
And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron. And of Miss Emily for some time. The Negro man went in and out with the market basket, but the front door remained closed. Now and then we would see her at a window for a moment, as the men did that night when they sprinkled the lime, but for almost six months she did not appear on the streets. Then we knew that this was to be expected too; as if that quality of her father which had thwarted her woman's life so many times had been too virulent and too furious to die.
那是我们最后一次见到霍默·巴伦。艾米莉小姐呢，我们则有一段时间没有见过她了。黑人倒是提着篮子进进出出，但前门总是关着。偶尔还可以从窗户上看到她的身影闪现，就像人们撒石灰那天晚上见到的情景一样，但几乎有六个月没见她上过街了。我们知道，这一切也是可以预料的；好像父亲的性格对她这样的女人的生活增添了不少的麻烦，而这种性格似乎太恶毒、太极端了，至今难以消除。
When we next saw Miss Emily, she had grown fat and her hair was turning gray. During the next few years it grew greyer and greyer until it attained an even pepper-and-salt iron gray, when it ceased turning. Up to the day of her death at seventy-four it was still that vigorous iron gray, like the hair of an active man.
再次见到艾米莉小姐时，她已经身体发福，而头发逐渐灰白起来。随后几年里，她的头发越来越灰，变成了白盐掺胡椒般的铁灰色，随后再也没有变过。到了她七十四岁过世时，都保持着她那旺盛的铁灰色，像是正值当年的男人的头发。
From that time on her front door remained closed, save for a period of six or seven years, when she was about forty, during which she gave lessons in china painting. She fitted up a studio in one of the downstairs rooms, where the daughters and granddaughters of Colonel Sartoris' contemporaries were sent to her with the same regularity and in the same spirit that they were sent to church on Sundays with a twenty-five-cent piece for the collection plate. Meanwhile her taxes had been remitted.
从那时起，她的前门再也没有打开过，只有她四十开外时，大约有六七年时间前门开过。在那段时间，她开课教授瓷器彩绘。她在楼下的一间房里布置了一间画室。萨特里斯上校同时代的人都把女儿、孙女送到她那儿去学习，而且很按时，那精神与礼拜天把她们送去教堂，给她们二毛五分硬币以备放在募捐盘中的情形没什么区别。那时，她的税收早巳豁免了。
