Aunt Phebe, while preparing the dinner-table in the great house, overheard their conversation.

菲比姨妈在大房子里准备餐桌时，无意中听到了他们的谈话。

Mrs. Epps was on the piazza;Uncle Abram, and Bob, and Wiley, and Aunt Phebe stood by the gate, gazing after me.

埃普斯夫人在广场上； 亚伯兰叔叔、鲍勃、威利和菲比婶婶站在门口，注视着我。

During our absence, I learned from Aunt Phebe and Patsey, that the latter had been getting deeper and deeper into trouble.

我们不在的时候， 我从阿姨菲比和帕西那里得知，后者的麻烦越来越深。

At night Phebe applied melted tallow to her wounds, and so far as we were able, all endeavored to assist and console her.

晚上， 菲比将融化的牛油涂在她的伤口上，我们都尽力帮助和安慰她。

Without disclosing his intentions to run away even to his wife Phebe, he proceeded to make arrangements for carrying his plan into execution.

他甚至没有向妻子菲比透露他的逃跑意图，而是着手安排实施他的计划。

In the course of the day I managed to obtain a few matches and a piece of candle, unperceived, from the kitchen, during a temporary absence of Aunt Phebe.

在这一天里，菲比姨妈暂时不在，我不知不觉地从厨房弄到了几根火柴和一根蜡烛。

She entered into a minute repetition of all she had heard, and Aunt Phebe was one whose ears never failed to drink in every word of conversation uttered in her hearing.

她把听到的一切都在一分钟内重复一遍，而菲比姨妈是那种耳朵永远不会不喝她听到的每一个谈话词的人。

Mistress Epps had repeated to him my expressions to Aunt Phebe the evening previous, as I learned from the latter afterwards, the mistress having mentioned to her that she had overheard us.

埃普斯女主人向他重复了前一天晚上我对菲比姨妈说的话，正如我后来从后者那里得知的那样， 女主人向她提到她无意中听到了我们的话。

Aunt Phebe, emerging from the back door of the great house with a pan of potatoes, had thrown one of them with unnecessary violence, thereby giving me to understand that she wished to speak to me a moment confidentially.

菲比阿姨端着一锅土豆从大房子的后门出来，用不必要的暴力把其中一个扔了出去，从而让我明白她想和我私下谈一谈。