It was just as well, for Ewbank wasn't gone a minute.

这也无妨，因为 Ewbank 一刻也没有离开。

I'll turn round in my saddle to see Ewbank coming up hell-to-leather in his white suit, and I'll duly paint it red.

我会在我的马鞍上转身， 看到 Ewbank 穿着他的白色西装从地狱到皮革， 我会适时地把它漆成红色。

I kept him out of his bed another twenty minutes, and I knew every inch of the business premises before I shook hands with Ewbank in my room.

我又让他离开了床 20 分钟，在我和 Ewbank 在我的房间里握手之前，我对营业场所的每一寸都了如指掌。

There was no window down there, and, though I could no longer hear old Ewbank snoring, I had not the slightest reason to anticipate disturbance from that quarter.

下面没有窗户，虽然我再也听不到老 Ewbank 的鼾声，但我没有丝毫理由预料到那个地方会打扰我。

Indeed I was by way of asking too many questions (the most oblique and delicate was that which elicited my host's name, Ewbank), nor was I careful enough to conceal their drift.

事实上，我问了太多问题（最隐晦和微妙的问题是引出了我的主人 Ewbank 的名字）， 也没有足够小心地掩饰他们的偏差。

For old Ewbank hadn't quite appreciated me till then; he was a hard nut, a much older man than myself, and I felt pretty sure he thought me young for the place, and my supposed feat a fluke.

因为老尤班克在那之前还不太欣赏我； 他是个顽固的人， 比我年长得多， 我敢肯定他认为我很年轻， 不适合这个地方， 而我所谓的壮举纯属侥幸。