《简爱》✍ 第二章：14

All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality: and the strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit: I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp, Bessie's evening storise represented as coming out of lone, ferny dells in moors, and appearing before the eyes of belated travellers. I returned to my stool.

在那片幻象的空间中，一切都比现实中显得更阴沉、更冷漠。里面那个眼睛直瞪着我的古怪的小家伙，在昏暗朦胧中显出苍白的脸和胳膊，在一片死寂中只有那双惊惶发亮的眼睛在闪闪转动，看上去样子真像一个幽灵，我觉得她就像是贝茜夜晚讲故事时所说的那种半神半妖的小鬼中的一个，它们常在沼地上杂草丛生的荒谷中出现在夜行者的眼前。我回到了我的矮凳上。