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Hannah was evidently fond of talking.
汉娜显然很健谈。
While I picked the fruit, and she made the paste for the pies,
我拣果子，她捏面团做饼时，
she proceeded to give me sundry details about her deceased master and mistress, and "the childer," as she called the young people.
她继续细谈着过世的主人和女主人，以及她称作“孩子们”的年轻人。
Old Mr. Rivers, she said, was a plain man enough, but a gentleman, and of as ancient a family as could be found.
她说老里弗斯先生是个极为朴实的人，但是位绅士，出身于一个十分古老的家庭。
Marsh End had belonged to the Rivers ever since it was a house:
沼泽居自建成以后就一直属于里弗斯先生，
and it was, she affirmed, aboon two hundred year old
她还肯定，这座房子已有两百年左右历史了
for all it looked but a small, humble place, naught to compare wi' Mr. Oliver's grand hall down i' Morton Vale.
尽管它看上去不过是个不起眼的小地方，丝毫比不上奥利弗先生在莫尔顿谷的豪华富宅。
But she could remember Bill Oliver's father a journeyman needlemaker;
但我还记得比尔·奥利弗的父亲是个走家穿户的制针人，
and th' Rivers wor gentry i' th' owd days o' th' Henrys, as onybody might see by looking into th' registers i' Morton Church vestry.
而里弗斯家族在过去亨利时代都是贵族，看看莫尔顿教堂法衣室记事簿，就谁都知道。
Still, she allowed, "the owd maister was like other folk
不过她仍认为“老主人像别人一样，
naught mich out o' t' common way: stark mad o' shooting, and farming, and sich like."
并没有太出格，只是完全迷恋于狩猎种田等等。”
The mistress was different. She was a great reader, and studied a deal; and the "bairns" had taken after her.
女主人可不同。她爱读书，而且学得很多。“孩子们”像她。
There was nothing like them in these parts, nor ever had been;
这一带没有人跟他们一样的，以往也没有。
they had liked learning, all three, almost from the time they could speak; and they had always been "of a mak' of their own."
三个人都喜欢学习，差不多从能说话的时候起就这样了，他们自己一直“另有一套”。
