He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been—in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away—by the fervour of this reproach.

他被这种责备的热情触动了他的心脏所在的空腔——在那个乱七八糟的蛋窝里，如果它们没有被吹走，天上的鸟儿本可以生活在那里。

'When the boy's worth hundreds of pounds to me, am I to lose what chance threw me in the way of getting safely, through the whims of a drunken gang that I could whistle away the lives of!

“当这个男孩对我来说价值数百英镑时，我是否会失去让我安全度过的机会，通过一个我可以吹口哨的醉酒团伙的突发奇想！