“那帮宫老爷都是敬神的先生,可惜慈悲心太重陛——这可是真事,第三个人老珠黄的婆娘补充说。“最起码,他们应该在海丝特·白兰的脑门上烙个记号。那总能让海丝特太太有点怕,我敢这么说。可她——那个破烂货——她才不在乎他们在她前襟上贴个什么呢!哼,你们等着瞧吧,她准会别上个胸针,或者是异教徒的什么首饰,档住胸口,照样招摇过市!
"Ah, but," interposed, more softly, a young wife, holding a child by the hand, "Let her cover the mark as she will, the pangof it will be always in her heart."
“啊,不过,一个手里领着孩子的年轻媳妇轻声插嘴说,“她要是想挡着那记号就随她去吧,反正她心里总会受折磨的。
"What do we talk of marks and brands, whether on the bodiceof her gown, or the flesh of her forehead?" cried another female, the ugliest as well as the most pitiless of these self-constituted judges. "This woman has brought shame upon us all, and ought to die. Is there not law for it? Truly there is, both in the Scripture and the statute-book. Then let the magistrates, who have made it of no effect, thank themselves if their own wives and daughters go astray!"
“我们扯什么记号不记号的,管它是在她前襟上还是脑门上呢?另一个女人叫嚷着,她在这几个自命的法官中长相最丑,也最不留情。“这女人给我们大伙都丢了脸,她就该死。难道说没有管这种事的法律吗?明明有嘛,圣经里和法典上全都写着呢。那就请这些不照章办事的宫老爷们的太太小姐们去走邪路吧,那才叫自作自受呢!
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