Vixen was at once on her legs, and without further words the three walked out into the starlight, by the side of Bartle's potato-beds, to the little gate.
泼妇立刻站了起来, 三人没有再多说什么, 走到星光下, 在巴图的土豆苗圃旁, 走向小门。
亚当·比德(二)
You think knowledge is to be got cheap—you'll come and pay Bartle Massey sixpence a-week, and he'll make you clever at figures without your taking any trouble.
And it touched the tenderest fibre in Bartle Massey's nature, for such full-grown children as these were the only pupils for whom he had no severe epithets and no impatient tones.
Adam was used to hear him talk in this way, but had never learned so much of Bartle's past life as to know whether his view of married comfort was founded on experience.
" Then, " said Mr. Irwine, reassured a little as to Bartle's discretion, " I think you'll be doing a good deed; and it will be well for you to let Adam's mother and brother know that you're going" .