This ominous tool she presented to Miss Scatcherd with a respectful curtesy; then she quietly, and without being told, unloosed her pinafore, and the teacher instantly and sharply inflicted on her neck a dozen strokes with the bunch of twigs.

恭敬地向斯卡查德小姐献上了这件不具；然后悄悄地，有告知，解开围裙，老师立即用那束树枝在脖子上猛烈地敲了十几下。