你瞧，我亲爱的，我的长处就是我是个坏蛋。很多人责备我做过的事，我想他们没有错，不过我不认为我伤害过任何人。女人都喜欢我，我天生热情，其余的事情几乎是自然而然发生的，但是不管怎样，我既没有权利也没有意愿去责备别人做的事。
(You see,my dear,the advantage of me is that I'm a bad hat.A lot of people reproach me for the things I've done;I dare say they're right;I don't think I've done anyone much harm,women have liked me and I have naturally affectionate disposition,so the rest followed almost automatically;but anyhow I've got neither the right nor the inclination to reproach other people for what they've done.) (查看原文)
with his smiling mouth and the good-humoured mockery of his grey eyes, of course not a person you could take seriously, but one who was easy to get on with. It suddenly occurred to Mary why notwithstanding his faults (and disregarding the great service he had rendered her) she felt so much at ease with him. You could be entirely yourself. You never had to pretend with him, first because he had a keen eye for any sort of humbug and only laughed at you, and then bacause he never pretend himself. (查看原文)
"But I don't love you, Rowley."
"I told you the other night, you will if you give yourself half a chance."
She looked at him for some time, doubtfully, and then suddenly the gleam of a shy but faintly teasing smile stole into her lovely eyes.
"I wonder if you're right", she murmured, "The other night, in the car, when those drunken people passed us and you held me in your arms, though I was scared to death, I don't mind admitting that while your lips were pressed to mine the sensation wasn't- entirely unpleasant. "
He gave a great throaty chuckle. He jumped up and dragged her to her feet and flung his arms round her. He kissed her on the mouth.
"So now what?"
"Well, if you insist on marrying me .. But it's an awful risk we're taking."
"Darling, that's what life's for- to take risks." (查看原文)
She knew very well that he had been shattered by her confession. He was incapable of sympathy for such outrageous, such shocking behaviour. She had destroyed his belief in her and he would never again feel quite sure of her. But he was not the man to take back the offer he had made. When of her own free will she had told him what she might easily have kept to herself, he could do nothing but respond to her frankness with generosity; he was prepared to sacrifice his career and the chance of making a great name of himself, to marry her; and she had an inkling that he took something like a bitter joy in the prospect of such a sacrifice, not because he loved her so much that it was worth while, but because his sacrifice heightened his pride in himself. She knew him well enough to know that he ... (查看原文)
