9.But so have I seen little Miriam and Martha, laughing-eyed elves, heedlessly gambol around their old sire; sporting with the circle of singed locks which grew on the marge of that burnt-out crater of his brain.
但是,我也看见了小小的米里亚姆和
莎,这两个眼中笑意盈盈的精灵,漫不经心地绕着他们的老父亲嬉戏,拨弄着生在他那熄灭了的火山口似的脑边的那圈烧焦的卷发。