I did my best to reassure her, and should doubtless have won her amity had not that sot of a scullion come between us'.
我尽力安慰她,如果不是我们之间有一堆小妖怪,我无疑应该赢得她的好感。
趣说历史
Little did sot sound know however that those ships were full of flammable reeds as they approached his fleet they were set alight and destroyed his ships in camp.