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.

恭敬向斯卡查德小姐献上了这件不祥的；后，有被告知，解开的围裙，老师立即用那束树枝在的脖子上猛烈敲了十几下。