This ominous tool she presented to Miss Scatcherd with a respectful curtesy; then she quietly, and without being told, unloosed her pinafore, and the teacher instantly and sharply inflicted on her neck a dozen strokes with the bunch of twigs.

恭敬地向斯德小姐献上了这件不祥的工具；然后悄悄地，没有被告知，解开的围裙，即用那束树枝在的脖子上猛烈地敲了十几下。