Audiobook Dictation: “Lady Helena repeated the evening prayer…”

Lady Helena repeated the evening prayer aloud, her companions, bare-headed, repeated it after her.

海倫娜夫人大聲念出晚禱詞，同伴們脫帽跟著她念。

Who does not turn his thoughts toward God in the hour of death?

臨終之時，誰不會把心思轉向上帝呢？

This done, the prisoners embraced each other.

禱告完畢，囚徒們相互擁抱。

Sleep, which keeps all sorrow in abeyance, soon weighed down their eyelids; they slept in each other's arms, overcome by exhaustion and prolonged watching.

睡眠能讓一切悲傷暫時擱置，很快便壓沉了他們的眼皮；他們疲憊不堪，又守夜太久，相擁而眠。

Then Glenarvan, taking his friends aside, said: "My dear friends, our lives and the lives of these poor women are in God's hands.

這時格里那凡把朋友們拉到一旁，說道：「親愛的朋友們，我們的性命和這兩位可憐女士的性命都掌握在上帝手中。

If it is decreed that we die to-morrow, let us die bravely, like Christian men, ready to appear without terror before the Supreme Judge.

倘若天命注定我們明天要死，那就讓我們像基督徒那樣勇敢地死去，毫無懼色地去見至高的審判者。

God, who reads our hearts, knows that we had a noble end in view.

洞察人心的上帝知道，我們懷著崇高的目標。

Stern as the decree may seem, I will not repine.

無論這判決看來多麼嚴酷，我都不會抱怨。

But death here, means not death only, it means torture, insult, perhaps, and here are two ladies--"

可是在這裡，死亡不僅僅意味著死，還意味著酷刑，或許還有侮辱，而這裡還有兩位女士——」

Glenarvan's voice, firm till now, faltered.

格里那凡一直堅定的聲音，這時顫抖了。