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

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

海伦娜夫人大声念出晚祷词，同伴们脱帽跟着她念。

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

临终之时，谁不会把心思转向上帝呢？

This done, the prisoners embraced each other.

祷告完毕，囚徒们相互拥抱。

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.

睡眠能让一切悲伤暂时搁置，很快便压沉了他们的眼皮；他们疲惫不堪，又守夜太久，相拥而眠。

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

这时格里那凡把朋友们拉到一旁，说道：“亲爱的朋友们，我们的性命和这两位可怜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.

倘若天命注定我们明天要死，那就让我们像基督徒那样勇敢地死去，毫无惧色地去见至高的审判者。

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

洞察人心的上帝知道，我们怀着崇高的目标。

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

无论这判决看来多么严酷，我都不会抱怨。

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

可是在这里，死亡不仅仅意味着死，还意味着酷刑，或许还有侮辱，而这里还有两位女士——”

Glenarvan's voice, firm till now, faltered.

格里那凡一直坚定的声音，这时颤抖了。