Already when he was re-entering the town after that ride taken in the first hours of stinging pain, he was setting his mind on remaining in Middlemarch in spite of the worst that could be done against him.

在经历了头几个小时的刺痛之后， 当他重新进入小镇时， 他已经下定决心要留在米德尔马契， 尽管可能会对他造成最坏的后果。