单身贵族案 30真相大白(7)

"Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all for openness,

"接着我们就商量该怎么办，弗兰克主张完全公开，

but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I should like to vanish away and never see any of them again

但是我对这一切感到非常的惭愧，我但愿从此销声匿迹，永远不再见到他们之中的任何一个人，

just sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive.

也许，给爸爸写张条子，表明我尚在人间就是了。

It was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back.

我一想起那些爵士们、夫人们正围坐在早餐桌旁等我回去，心里就忐忑不安。

So Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of them, so that I should not be traced,

于是，弗兰克为了使别人找不到我，就把我的结婚礼服和其它东西收拾起来捆成一包，

and dropped them away somewhere where no one could find them.

扔到一个没有人找得到的地方。

It is likely that we should have gone on to Paris to-morrow,

本来我们明天就可能到巴黎去了，

only that this good gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening,

要不是这位好心的福尔摩斯先生今天晚上来找我们的话，

though how he found us is more than I can think,

虽然我想象不出他是怎样发现我们的地址的，

and he showed us very clearly and kindly¹ that I was wrong and that Frank was right,

但是他善意和清楚地开导了我们，指出我是错了，弗兰克是对的，

and that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so secret.

而我们这样怕人家知道，那要犯很大的错误。

Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord St. Simon alone,

然后，他提出给我们一个跟圣西蒙勋爵单独谈话的机会，

and so we came right away round to his rooms at once.

所以，我们就立即到这里来了。

Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if I have given you pain,

好了，罗伯特，你现在什么都明白了吧，如果我使你感到痛苦，那我就太抱歉了，

and I hope that you do not think very meanly of me."

希望你不要把我想得太卑鄙。"

1 kindly   

adj.和蔼的，温和的，爽快的；adv.温和地，亲切地

参考例句：

• Her neighbours spoke of her as kindly and hospitable.她的邻居都说她和蔼可亲、热情好客。
• A shadow passed over the kindly face of the old woman.一道阴影掠过老太太慈祥的面孔。