Now she was crouching in the corner trying to extract a circular note from a kind of linen nose-bag which hung in chaste concealment round her neck.

现在她正蹲在角落里，试图从一个朴素的挂在她脖子上的亚麻鼻袋里取出一张圆票。

Master of a large advance of his first year's income in circular notes, he perhaps too readily forgot that the mere act of honour, but for her self-suppression, would have rendered him penniless.

他以通票的形式预支了他第一年收入的一大笔钱，也许他太容易忘记了，如果不是因为她的自我抑制，仅仅是为了荣誉，他就会变得身无分文。