Something in its poor architecture recalled a steel engraving, perhaps one from an old edition of Paul et Virginie.

简陋的建筑使他想起一帧钢版画，或许是旧版《保尔和弗吉尼亚》里的插图。

“We all felt the plane was arriving very, very quickly on the tarmac,” 28-year-old Virginie Giroux, one of the French passengers said.

28岁的法国乘客维尔吉尼·吉鲁说：“我们都感觉到飞机疾速地落向停机坪。”

And oh! the romantic courting that went on in the forest paths of that secluded island, between the Bengali boy reader and little Virginie with the many-coloured kerchief round her head!

啊，还有在那荒岛的林中小径里，上演着孟加拉的小读者和头裹花巾的小薇吉妮之间的恋爱追逐！