Chapter 2
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- G$ w3 v7 D# Q% x I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed to entertain of me. The fact is, I was a trifle beside myself; or rather out of myself, as the French would say: I was conscious that a moment's mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths 绝望中我横下一条心，决计不顾一切了.
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( \8 Y# a) X- ` "Hold her arms, Miss Abbot: she's like a mad cat."
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"For shame! for shame!" cried the lady's aid. "What shocking conduct, Miss Eyre, to strike a young gentleman, your benefactress's女恩人，这里指简爱的舅母 son! Your young master." 0 J# J' G4 P* } f
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"Master! How is he my master? Am I a servant?" 3 D( f z. M# H! b$ ^6 T0 n
0 O: N& {5 V9 E- |! k "No; you are less than a servant, for you do nothing for your keep因为你什么也不做，吃白食。keep指生活费. There, sit down, and think over your wickedness." 9 r j! h1 Q: P; N" V
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They had got me by this time into the apartment indicated by Mrs. Reed, and had thrust me upon a stool: my impulse was to rise from it like a spring; their two pair of hands arrested me instantly.
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"If you don't sit still, you must be tied down," said Bessie. "Miss Abbot, lend me your garters; she would break mine directly." & y* g P$ j3 I, z: R% R
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Miss Abbot turned to divest a stout leg of the necessary ligature. This preparation for bonds, and the additional ignominy it inferred, took a little of the excitement out of me. % h+ Q8 a4 i! z- _% e
% e; u& \' }1 x$ \1 g) }% l "Don't take them off," I cried; "I will not stir." % f4 C/ z0 r; y8 c8 h" [* U
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In guarantee whereof, I attached myself to my seat by my hands. ) R. V8 [3 T f
- F, z- c7 g" x4 s$ q+ C "Mind you don't," said Bessie; and when she had ascertained that I was really subsiding, she loosened her hold of me; then she and Miss Abbot stood with folded arms, looking darkly and doubtfully on my face, as incredulous of my sanity.
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; R/ r) I- J5 r: j9 G- _/ k "She never did so before," at last said Bessie, turning to the Abigail.
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"But it was always in her," was the reply. "I've told Missis often my opinion about the child, and Missis agreed with me. She's an underhand little thing: I never saw a girl of her age with so much cover这小东西真狡猾，从来没见过像她这样年纪的小姑娘，有那么多鬼心眼的.
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0 E# n5 H/ {( I6 m5 _& j/ I "Bessie answered not; but ere long, addressing me, she said—
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"You ought to be aware, Miss, that you are under obligations to Mrs. Reed: she keeps you: if she were to turn you off, you would have to go to the poorhouse."
