Pearl pointed upward, also, at a similar picture in the head-piece; smiling at her mother, with the elfish intelligence that was so familiar an expression on her small physiognomy.
珠儿还向上指着头盔中一个相似的映象,一边向母亲笑着,小脸上又露出了那常有的鬼精灵的表现。
With all these sterling attributes, thought Hester, the evil which she inherited from her mother must be great indeed, if a noble woman do not grow out of this elfish child.
海丝特自忖,这个小精灵似的孩子已经具备了这些纯正的秉赋,如若再不能成长为一个高贵的妇人,那就是她从母亲身上继承到的邪恶实在太大了。
Or is she an elfish spirit, who, as the legends of our childhood taught us, is forbidden to cross a running stream?
要不,说不定她是个小精灵,象我们儿时的童话所教的,她是不准渡过流淌的溪流的吧?
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