Justine 淑女的眼泪 Chapter 16

"Therese," and nothing could have been more phlegmatic ¹ than his manner as he spoke ², "I have found a more reliable method than the one I proposed to attain ³ our objectives, but numerous details are involved, and I dare not come so often to your room; at precisely ⁴ five o'clock be at the corner of the park, I'll join you, we will take a walk together in the woods; while on our promenade ⁵ I'll explain it all.", ,I wish to affirm, Madame, that, whether because of the influence of Providence ⁶, whether owing to an excessive candor ⁷, whether to blindness, nothing gave me a hint of the terrible misery ⁸ awaiting me; I believed myself so safe, thanks to the Marquise's secret arrangements, that I never for a moment imagined that the Count had been able to discover them; nevertheless I was not entirely ⁹ at ease., ,"Le parjure est vertu quand on promit le crime," one of our tragic ¹⁰ poets has said; but perjury ¹¹ is always odious ¹² to a delicate and sensitive spirit which finds itself compelled to resort to it. My role embarrassed me., , ,Whereupon the perfidious ¹⁶ creature ceased to employ all but the very foulest ¹⁷ epithets ¹⁸., ,"Scum," quoth he, "do you recognize that bush whence I dragged you like a wild beast only to spare a life you deserved to lose? Do you recognize these trees unto which I threatened to lash ¹⁹ you were you ever to give me cause to repent ²⁰ my kindness ? Why did you agree to perform the task I demanded, if you intended to betray me to my aunt? and how could you imagine it was virtue ²¹ you served by imperiling the freedom of him to whom you owe all your happiness? By necessity placed between two crimes, why have you chosen the more abominable ²²?", ,The british character is often said to be phlegmatic.英国人的性格常说成是冷漠的
。,They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。