There are stories of her which I would fain disbelieve-stories that she is sealed to some Gentile. 外面有许多传说，都说她已经和某个异教徒订婚了。我倒是不愿听信这些说法的。 This must be the gossip of idle tongues. W...
One fine morning John Ferrier was about to set out to his wheatfields, when he heard the click of the latch, 一个晴朗的早晨，约翰费瑞厄正打算外出到麦田里去，他忽然听到前门的门闩咔哒响了一下。 and, looking thro...
At first this vague and terrible power was exercised only upon the recalcitrants who, having embraced the Mormon faith, wished afterwards to pervert or to abandon it.Soon, however, it took a wider range. 最初，这种神秘莫测的可怕势力只是...
Chapter 3 第三章 JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET 约翰费瑞厄和先知的会谈 THREE weeks had passed since Jefferson Hope and his comrades had departed from Salt Lake City. 杰弗逊侯波和他的伙伴们离开盐湖城已经有三个礼拜...
He called on John Ferrier that night, and many times again, until his face was a familiar one at the farmhouse. 当天晚上，他就去拜访了约翰费瑞厄；以后，他又去了许多趟，终于混得彼此非常熟悉起来。 John, cooped u...
He was a tall, savage-looking young fellow, mounted on a powerful roan horse, and clad in the rough dress of a hunter, with a long rifle slung over his shoulders. 这是一个高高身材、面目粗野的年轻小伙子，骑着一匹身带灰白斑点...
Scarcely had she got fairly into it, however, before the beasts closed in behind her, and she found herself completely embedded in the moving stream of fierce-eyed, long-horned bullocks. 但是，当她刚刚进入牛群，后面的牛就都挤拢了来...
It was not the father, however, who first discovered that the child had developed into the woman. It seldom is in such cases. 但是，第一个感觉到这个女孩子已经长大成人的并不是她的父亲。这种事情很少是由作父亲的首...
On the farm thus acquired John Ferrier built himself a substantial log- house, which received so many additions in succeeding years that it grew into a roomy villa. 费瑞厄就这样获得了他的一份土地。他在这篇土地上建筑了一座坚...
Chapter 2 第二章 THE FLOWER OF UTAH 犹他之花 THIS is not the place to commemorate the trials and privations endured by the immigrant Mormons before they came to their final haven. 这里不打算追述摩门教徒们最后定居以前在移民历...
