But where Silver stood with his lieutenant all was still in shadow, and they waded knee deep in a low, white vapour, that had crawled during the night out of the morass.

• 不过，希尔弗和他的副手所站的地方仍在阴影之中，沼泽地夜间蔓延开来的白色雾霭有他们的膝盖那么高。