Uncle Tom's Cabin

Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor, in the town of P——, in Kentucky.

二月里一个寒冷的下午，两位绅士独自坐在肯塔基州P城一家陈设精美的餐厅里，边喝酒边聊天。

He was a short, thick-set man, with coarse, commonplace features, and that swaggering air of pretension which marks a low man who is trying to elbow his way upward in the world.

他个子矮小，体格粗壮，面容粗俗平凡，带着一种炫耀的傲慢气质，这标志着一个低微的人试图在世上往上爬。