He found it (on hisvisits to Balmoral to the girlish Queen Victoria,all popeyes and buck teeth but 「pretty enough beneath the neck」) a place ofgloom and drizzle and long-faced holiness.
他认为那是个阴沉多雨的地方,连女王陛下也哭丧着脸(他去巴尔莫拉窥见少女时代的维多利亚女王时,发现到处都是犬牙鱼眼,唯一「美丽非凡的是脖子以下的部分」)。