He laid the foundations for a library by purchasing from a wandering bibliophile first editions of Swinburne, Meredith, and Hardy, and a yellowed illegible autograph letter of Keats's, finding later that he had been amazingly overcharged.

他从一位流浪的藏书家那里购买了斯温伯恩、梅雷迪思和哈代的初版，以及济慈的一封发黄、难以辨认的亲笔信，为图书馆奠定了基础，后来他发现自己被多收了惊人的费用。

Mathilde was keeping in reserve for this supreme moment a complete autograph letter from my lord, bishop of ----. This prelate, who governed the Church of France and created its bishops, was good enough to ask for Julien's acquittal.

玛蒂尔德为这个至高无上的时刻保留了一封完整的亲笔信，这是我的主人，某某主教的亲笔签名。这位掌管法兰西教会并任命其主教的主教非常好地要求宣布于连无罪。