There had been a period when Hester was less alive to this consideration; or, perhaps, in the misanthropy of her own trouble, she left the minister to bear what she might picture to herself as a more tolerable doom.

• 有一段时间，海丝特没怎么动脑筋考虑这一点，也许是因为她自己痛不欲生，而把他的厄运看得比较容易忍受，也就没去过问他。