就在他即将在南卡罗来纳州的查尔斯顿上绞架之前，他说到：“我的所做所为只是为了让我能活下去。”
Just before he was hanged in Charleston, South Carolina, he said: "What I did was to keep me from perishing."
他可以就这样生活下去完全不想买更多的衣料，但是，如果让我呆在工艺品店或者床上用品店，我就是即将发生的购物灾难。
He could go for the rest of his life without the slightest desire to buy more fabric, but put me in a craft store or quilt shop and I'm a shopping disaster just waiting to happen.
他能看出这可不是让我继续学习下去的好方法，他成功说服我哥哥，让他带我到伦敦去读书，把我一人丢在公寓里⑤。
He could see that this was not the way for me to get on, and prevailed upon my brother to allow him to take me to London, and leave me there to myself in a lodging house.
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