1：I was a reporter of an evening paper in London.
我是伦敦一家晚报的记者.
2：One day I was asked to write a few articles on begging in London.
有一天,我被要求写几篇关于在伦敦行乞的文章.
3：It was then that all my adventures (冒险) started.
就是那个时候,我所有的冒险经历开始了.
4：I made a decision that the best way of collecting facts was that I would go deep into the life.
我做的决定是：深入生活是收集材料的最佳途径.
5：I use to be an actor.Of course,I had learned all the skills of making up and could still make good use of them.
我曾经是个演员.当然,我学会了所有的化妆技巧,并仍然能熟练地加以利用.
6：Having finished all necessary preparation,I placed myself in one of the busiest streets.
做完一切必要的准备,我把自己放在最繁忙的街道之一.
7：At home that night I was surprised to find that I had received more than a pound.
那天晚上在家里,我惊讶地发现,我讨到了1英磅还多.
8：Well,you can imagine how hard it was to work hard on the newspaper at two pounds a week,when I knew that I could make as much as that in a single day!
哦,你可以想像,在报社努力工作一周要挣到2英镑都很难.而此时我已经知道,一天之内就可以得到同样多的钱.
9：I gave up my job as a reporter.
我放弃了我的记者工作.
10：My knowledge of making up helped me a lot and my clever answers quickly mad made a public character.
我的化妆知识对我帮助很大,而我巧妙地乞讨方法疯快地闻名遐迩.
11：All day and every day,the money poured into my cap and I usually received at least two pounds a day.
日复一日,钱倾注到我的帽子里,我经常每天收入至少两个英镑.
12：In the end,I was able to buy a large bright beautiful house in the country,and later to marry.
最后,我有能力在乡下购买又大又明亮又漂亮的房子,接着结婚.
13：No-body had an idea where my money really came from.
没人知道我的钱的真实来源.
14：My dear wife only knew that I had business in London--that was all.
我亲爱的妻子只知道我在伦敦有生意,-仅此而已.