It seems he had no design except to appear respectable, and here he keeps a private book to prove that he was not.

It seems he had no design except to appear respectable, and here he keeps a private book to prove that he was not.

他似乎没有别的打算，只是想显得体面些。他在这里藏了一本私人的书，以证明他并不体面。

-- Robert Louis Stevenson 罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森