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CHAPTER XXXVIII

第三十八章

READER, I married him.

读者呵，我同他结了婚。

A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present.

婚礼不事声张，到场的只有他和我，牧师和教堂执事。

When we got back from church, I went into the kitchen of the manor-house,

我从教堂里回来，走进庄园的厨房时，

where Mary was cooking the dinner and John cleaning the knives, and I said: --

玛丽在做饭，约斡在擦拭刀具，我说：

"Mary, I have been married to Mr. Rochester this morning."

“玛丽，今儿早上我和罗切斯特先生结了婚，”

The housekeeper² and her husband were both of that decent phlegmatic³ order of people,

管家和她的丈夫都是不大动感情的规矩人，

to whom one may at any time safely communicate a remarkable⁴ piece of news without incurring⁵ the danger of having one's ears pierced by some shrill⁶ ejaculation,

你什么时候都可以放心地告诉他们惊人的消息，而你的耳朵不会有被一声尖叫刺痛的危险，

and subsequently stunned⁷ by a torrent⁸ of wordy wonderment.

你也不会随之被一阵好奇的唠叨弄得目瞪口呆。

Mary did look up, and she did stare at me: the ladle with which she was basting⁹ a pair of chickens roasting at the fire,

玛丽确实抬起了头来，也确实盯着我看。她用来给两只烤着的鸡涂油的杓子，

did for some three minutes hang suspended in air;

在空中停了大约三分钟，

and for the same space of time John's knives also had rest from the polishing process:

约翰忘了擦拭，手中的刀具停了同样长的时间。

but Mary, bending again over the roast, said only --

但是玛丽又弯下腰，忙她的烤鸡去了，只不过说：

"Have you, Miss? Well, for sure!"

“是吗，小姐？嗯，那毫无疑问！”

A short time after she pursued --

过了一会儿她接着说：

"I seed you go out with the master, but I didn't know you were gone to church to be wed¹;" and she basted¹⁰ away.

“我看见你与主人出去，但我不知道你们是上教堂结婚的。”说完她又忙着给鸡涂油了，

John, when I turned to him, was grinning from ear to ear.

而约翰呢，我转向他的时候，他笑得合不拢嘴了。

"I telled Mary how it would be," he said: "I knew what Mr. Edward"

“我告诉过玛丽，事情会怎么样，”他说，“我知道爱德华先生”

(John was an old servant, and had known his master when he was the cadet of the house, therefore, he often gave him his Christian¹¹ name) --

（约翰是个老佣人，他的主人还是幼子的时候他就认识他了。因此他常常用教名称呼他）——

"I knew what Mr. Edward would do; and I was certain he would not wait long neither: and he's done right, for aught I know.

“我知道爱德华先生会怎么干。我肯定他不会等得很久，也许他做得很对。

I wish you joy, Miss!" and he politely pulled his forelock.

我祝你快乐，小姐！”他很有礼貌地拉了一下自己的前发。

"Thank you, John. Mr. Rochester told me to give you and Mary this."

“谢谢你，约翰。罗切斯特先生要我把这给你和玛丽。”