海丝特·白兰眼望着珠儿,常常把手里的活计放到膝上,由于强忍不下的痛苦而哭出声来,那泪泪涌出的声音,半似说话,半似鸣咽:

• "Gazing at Pearl, Hester Prynne often dropped her work upon her knees, and cried out with an agony which she would fain have hidden, but which made utterance for itself, betwixt speech and a groan, "