He was uppity to a lady, and what else could a Southern gentleman do? And while I'm confessing, I must admit that I shot a Yankee cavalryman after some words in a barroom.

对一位贵妇人傲慢无礼，我身为一个南方上等人，不该吗？既然我在向你坦白，我还得承认在某家酒吧间里还一位北方佬士兵斗了几句嘴，并把毙了。

His hair was jet black, and his black mustache was small and closely clipped, almost foreign looking compared with the dashing, swooping mustaches of the cavalrymen near by. He looked, and was, a man of lusty and unashamed appetites.

乌溜溜，两片小小黑髭修剪得十分精致，与身旁那些骑兵时髦而张扬髭髦比起来，显得像外国人模样，看那神气，分明是个荒淫无耻家伙。