There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin, piping voice, Nicholas Vedder! why he is dead and gone these eighteen years!

人群片刻无言，这时老者尖声答道：“尼古拉斯·威德尔！他已经死了十八年了！”

To her great annoyance the footsteps paused near to the screen; then Signora Grassini's thin, piping little voice broke off for a moment in its stream of chatter.

令她非常恼火的是，脚步声在屏风附近停了下来。接着，格拉西尼夫人细细的、尖细的声音在滔滔不绝的谈话中戛然而止。

When he entered, a young man with smooth yellow hair, who was bending over a lamp lighting a long thin pipe, looked up at him and nodded in a hesitating manner.

他一进门，一个黄头发的青年正弯着腰，点着一盏细长的烟斗灯，抬头看了他一眼，迟疑地点了点头。