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他伸出手来，我也向他伸出手去。他先是用一只手，随后用双手把我的手握住。 "You have saved my life: I have a pleasure in owing you so immensea debt. I cannot say more. Nothing else that has being would havebeen tolerable to me in the character of creditor for such anobligation: but you: it is different;--I feel your benefits noburden, Jane."" 你救了我的命。我很高兴，欠了你那么大一笔人情债。我无法再说别的话了，要是别的债主，我欠了那么大情，我准会难以容忍，可是你却不同。我并不觉得欠你的恩情是一种负担，简。" He paused; gazed at me: words almost visible trembled on his lips,--but his voice was checked. 他停顿了一下，眼睛盯着我，话几乎已到了颤动着的嘴边，但他控制住了自己的嗓音。 "Good-night again, sir. There is no debt, benefit, burden,obligation, in the case."" 再次祝你晚安，先生，那件事没有负债，没有恩情，没有负担，也没有义务。" "I knew," he continued, "you would do me good in some way, at sometime;--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: theirexpression and smile did not"--(again he stopped)--"did not" (heproceeded hastily) "strike delight to my very inmost heart so fornothing. People talk of natural sympathies; I have heard of goodgenii: there are grains of truth in the wildest fable. Mycherished preserver, goodnight!"" 我早就知道，"他继续说："你会在某一时候，以某种方式为我做好事的--我初次见你的时候，就从你眼睛里看到了这一点，那表情，那笑容不会（他再次打住），不会（他匆忙地继续说）无缘无故地在我心底里激起愉悦之情，人们爱谈天生的同情心，我曾听说过好的神怪--在那个荒诞的寓言里包含着一丝真理。我所珍重的救命恩人。晚安。" 
在他的嗓音里有一种奇特的活力，在他的目光里有一种奇怪的火光。 "I am glad I happened to be awake," I said: and then I was going." 我很高兴，刚巧醒着，"我说，随后我就走开了。 "What! you WILL go?"" 什么，你要走了？" "I am cold, sir."" 我觉得冷，先生。" "Cold? Yes,--and standing in a pool! Go, then, Jane; go!" But hestill retained my hand, and I could not free it. I bethought myselfof an expedient." 冷？是的--而且站在水潭中呢！那么走吧，简！"不过他仍然握着我的手，我难以摆脱，于是我想出了一个权宜之计。 
我想我听见了费尔法克斯太太的走动声了，先生"我说。 "Well, leave me:" he relaxed his fingers, and I was gone." 好吧，你走吧，"他放开手，我便走了。 I regained my couch, but never thought of sleep. Till morningdawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows oftrouble rolled under surges of joy. I thought sometimes I sawbeyond its wild waters a shore, sweet as the hills of Beulah; andnow and then a freshening gale, wakened by hope, bore my spirittriumphantly towards the bourne: but I could not reach it, even infancy--a counteracting breeze blew off land, and continually droveme back. Sense would resist delirium: judgment would warn passion.Too feverish to rest, I rose as soon as day dawned. 我又上了床。但睡意全无，我被抛掷到了具有浮力，却很不平静的海面上，烦恼的波涛在喜悦的巨浪下翻滚，如此一直到了天明。有时我想，越过汹涌澎湃的水面，我看到了像比乌拉山那么甜蜜的海岸，时而有一阵被希望所唤起的清风，将我的灵魂得意洋洋地载向目的地，但即使在幻想之中，我也难以抵达那里，--陆地上吹来了逆风，不断地把我刮回去，理智会抵制昏聩，判断能警策热情，我兴奋得无法安睡，于是天一亮便起床了。 I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day whichfollowed this sleepless night: I wanted to hear his voice again,yet feared to meet his eye. During the early part of the morning, Imomentarily expected his coming; he was not in the frequent habit ofentering the schoolroom, but he did step in for a few minutessometimes, and I had the impression that he was sure to visit itthat day. 那个不眠之夜后的第二天，我既希望见到罗切斯特先生，而又害怕见到他。我很想再次倾听他的声音，而又害怕与他的目光相遇。上午的前半晌，我时刻盼他来。他不常进读书室，但有时却进来呆几分钟。我有这样的预感，那天他一定会来。 But the morning passed just as usual: nothing happened to interruptthe quiet course of Adele's studies; only soon after breakfast, Iheard some bustle in the neighbourhood of Mr. Rochester's chamber,Mrs. Fairfax's voice, and Leah's, and the cook's--that is, John'swife--and even John's own gruff tones. There were exclamations of"What a mercy master was not burnt in his bed!" "It is alwaysdangerous to keep a candle lit at night." "How providential that hehad presence of mind to think of the water-jug!" "I wonder he wakednobody!" "It is to be hoped he will not take cold with sleeping onthe library sofa," &c. 但是，早上像往常那么过去了。没有发生什么影响阿黛勒宁静学习课程的事情。只是早饭后不久，我听到罗切斯特先生卧室附近一阵喧闹，有费尔法克斯太太的嗓音，还有莉娅的和厨师的--也就是约翰妻子的嗓音，甚至还有约翰本人粗哑的调门，有人大惊小怪地叫着："真幸运呀，老爷没有给烧死在床上！""点蜡烛过夜总归是危险的。""真是上帝保佑，他还能那么清醒，想起了水罐！""真奇怪，他谁都没有吵醒！""但愿他睡在图书室沙发上不会着凉！" 
这一番闲聊之后，响起了擦擦洗洗，收拾整理的声音。我下楼吃饭经过这间房子，从开着的门后进去，只见一切都又恢复得井井有条。只有床上的帐幔都已拆除，莉娅站在窗台上，擦着被烟薰黑的玻璃。我希望知道这件事是怎么解释的，正要同她讲话，但往前一看，只见房里还有第二个人--一个女人，坐在床边的椅子上，缝着新窗帘的挂环。那女人正是格雷斯.普尔。 There she sat, staid and taciturn-looking, as usual, in her brownstuff gown, her check apron, white handkerchief, and cap. She wasintent on her work, in which her whole thoughts seemed absorbed: onher hard forehead, and in her commonplace features, was nothingeither of the paleness or desperation one would have expected to seemarking the countenance of a woman who had attempted murder, andwhose intended victim had followed her last night to her lair, and(as I believed), charged her with the crime she wished toperpetrate. I was amazed--confounded. She looked up, while I stillgazed at her: no start, no increase or failure of colour betrayedemotion, consciousness of guilt, or fear of detection. She said"Good morning, Miss," in her usual phlegmatic and brief manner; andtaking up another ring and more tape, went on with her sewing. 她坐在那里，还是往常那付沉默寡言的样子，穿着褐色料子服，系着格子围裙，揣着白手帕，戴着帽子。她专心致志地忙着手头的活儿，似乎全身心都扑上去了。她冷漠的额头和普普通通的五官，既不显得苍白，也不见绝望的表情，那种人们期望在一个蓄谋杀人的女人脸上看到的表情特征，而且那位受害者昨晚跟踪到了她的藏身之处，并（如我所相信）指控她蓄意犯罪。我十分惊讶，甚至感到惶惑。我继续盯着她看时，她抬起了头来，没有惊慌之态，没有变脸色，而因此泄露她的情绪和负罪感，以及害怕被发现的恐惧心理。她以平时那种冷淡和简慢的态度说了声："早安，小姐，"又拿起一个挂环和一圈线带，继续缝了起来。 "I will put her to some test," thought I: "such absoluteimpenetrability is past comprehension."" 我倒要试试她看，"我想，"那么丝毫不露声色是令人难以理解的"。 "Good morning, Grace," I said. "Has anything happened here? Ithought I heard the servants all talking together a while ago."" 早安，格雷斯，"我说，"这儿发生了什么事吗？我想刚才我听到仆人们都议论纷纷呢。" "Only master had been reading in his bed last night; he fell asleepwith his candle lit, and the curtains got on fire; but, fortunately,he awoke before the bed-clothes or the wood-work caught, andcontrived to quench the flames with the water in the ewer." 不过是昨晚老爷躺在床上看书，亮着蜡烛就睡着了，床幔起了火，幸亏床单或木板还没着火他就醒了，想法用罐子里的水浇灭了火焰。" 
怪事！"我低声说，随后目光紧盯着她，"罗切斯特先生没有弄醒谁吗！你没有听到他走动？" She again raised her eyes to me, and this time there was somethingof consciousness in their expression. She seemed to examine mewarily; then she answered - 她再次抬眼看我，这回她的眸子里露出了一种若有所悟的表情。她似乎先警惕地审视我，然后才回答道： "The servants sleep so far off, you know, Miss, they would not belikely to hear. Mrs. Fairfax's room and yours are the nearest tomaster's; but Mrs. Fairfax said she heard nothing: when people getelderly, they often sleep heavy." She paused, and then added, witha sort of assumed indifference, but still in a marked andsignificant tone--"But you are young, Miss; and I should say a lightsleeper: perhaps you may have heard a noise?"" 仆人们睡的地方离得很远，你知道的，小姐，她们不可能听到。费尔法克斯太太的房间和你的离老爷的卧室最近，但费尔法克斯太太说她没有听到什么，人老了，总是睡得很死，"她顿了一顿，随后装作若无其事的样子，却以清楚而意味深长的语调补充说："不过你很年轻，小姐，而且应当说睡得不熟，也许你听到了什么声音。" "I did," said I, dropping my voice, so that Leah, who was stillpolishing the panes, could not hear me, "and at first I thought itwas Pilot: but Pilot cannot laugh; and I am certain I heard alaugh, and a strange one."" 我是听到了，"我压低了声音说。这样，仍在擦窗的莉娅就不会听到我了。"起初，我以为是派洛特，可是派洛特不会笑，而我敢肯定，我听到了笑声，古怪的笑声"。 She took a new needleful of thread, waxed it carefully, threaded herneedle with a steady hand, and then observed, with perfect composure- 她又拿了一根线，仔细地上了蜡，她的手沉稳地把线穿进针眼，随后非常镇静地说：
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