" Something worse than we can imagine, " suggested Dolorous Edd. " Well, I might be able to imagine it, but I'd sooner not. Bad enough to know you're going to come to some awful end without thinking about it aforetime" .

" 一定是我们想像到的倒楣事，" 忧郁的艾迪说，" 哎，要我想像其实难，但我瞧还是算了。知道倒楣还够惨？胡思乱想干嘛？"

For the gift was a pearl of price unparalleled, picked aforetime by British cutlasses from a Polynesian setting, and presented by British royalty to the sovereign who seized this opportunity of restoring it to its original possessor.

因为这件礼物是一颗价值无可比拟的珍珠，以前由英国弯刀从波利尼西亚环摘，由英国皇室赠送给君主，君主抓住这个机会将它归还给它原来的拥有者。