No reply was returned by his companion, since none could be given; and when Venn left, a few minutes later, Clym had passed from the dullness of sorrow to the fluctuation of carking incertitude.

他的同伴没有回答，因为不知该说什么好；离开后，了几分，的心情已从因悲伤愁苦而麻木变得因烦恼不定而心潮起伏。