" It's very good of a busy and successful man like you to come all this way to see an old fogey" .

" 你这功成名就的忙人大老远地来看我这么老古董，真太好了。"

And, by George, well I may not; for it would never do for a staid fogey a dozen years older to stand upon such a trifle as that'.

而且，乔治，我可能不会；因为对于年十二岁的古板执的人来说，站在这的小事上绝不会做的。

'He may be as virtuous as his prototype Timothy; but he's an opinionated old fogey all the same, ' said St. Cleeve petulantly.

“他可能和他的原型蒂莫西贤惠； “但他仍然执己见的老顽，”圣克利夫暴躁地说。

Apart from her being what she is, of course, a luxury for a fogey like me, it will set me right in the eyes of the clergy and orthodox laity, who have never forgiven me for letting her go.

当然，除了她现在的子，对于像我这执己见的人来说种奢侈，这将使我在神职人员和正统的俗人眼中处于正确的位置，他们永远不会原谅我让她离开。