I had cut my knuckles against the pale young gentleman's teeth, and I twisted my imagination into a thousand tangles, as I devised incredible ways of accounting for that damnatory circumstance when I should be haled before the Judges.

我把指关节切在这位苍白的年轻绅士的牙齿上，我把我的想象力扭曲成一千个纠结，因为我设计了不可思议的方法来解释那个的情况，那时我应该在法官面前被减半。