Nothing was more remarkable than the instinct, as it seemed, with which the child comprehended her loneliness: the destiny that had drawn an inviolable circle round about her: the whole peculiarity, in short, of her position in respect to other children.

• 最值得注意的是，这孩子仿佛有一种理解自己孤独处境的本能； 懂得自己周围有一条命中注定不可逾越的鸿沟； 简言之，她知道自己与其他孩子迥然不同的特殊地位。