It seemed that the bitterest thoughts of her life must have centred about the wooded reaches and the bright green meadows around Goring (видимо, самые горькие мысли ее жизни, должно быть, сосредоточились вокруг = были связаны с лесистыми берегами и яркими зелеными лугами вокруг Горинга; reach — размах; пространство; плес, колено реки, бьеф); but women strangely hug the knife that stabs them (но женщины странным /образом/ привязаны к ножу, что наносит им рану; to hug — крепко держать, сжимать в объятиях; выказывать благосклонность, любовь; лелеять; to stab — наносить удар /ножом и т. д./; ранить), and, perhaps, amidst the gall, there may have mingled also sunny memories of sweetest hours (возможно, среди обиды = к обиде примешивались также солнечные/радостные воспоминания о самых сладких, приятных часах; gall — желчность, злоба; чувство обиды, горечь), spent upon those shadowed deeps over which the great trees bend their branches down so low (проведенных у тех затененных омутов, над которыми большие деревья склоняют ветви так низко; to spend; deep — глубокое место, омут).

She had wandered about the woods by the river's brink all day (она пробродила по лесу на берегу реки весь день; brink — край, берег), and then, when evening fell and the grey twilight spread its dusky robe upon the waters (а потом, когда наступил вечер и серые сумерки раскинули свой темный плащ над водой; robe — мантия, широкая одежда, одеяние), she stretched her arms out to the silent river that had known her sorrow and her joy (она протянула руки к безмолвной реке, что знала ее горе и радость). And the old river had taken her into its gentle arms (и старая река приняла ее в свои нежные объятия), and had laid her weary head upon its bosom (и положила ее усталую голову на свою грудь), and had hushed away the pain (и успокоила боль).

meadow ['medu] knife [naf] gall [:l] bosom ['buzm]

It seemed that the bitterest thoughts of her life must have centred about the wooded reaches and the bright green meadows around Goring; but women strangely hug the knife that stabs them, and, perhaps, amidst the gall, there may have mingled also sunny memories of sweetest hours, spent upon those shadowed deeps over which the great trees bend their branches down so low.

She had wandered about the woods by the river's brink all day, and then, when evening fell and the grey twilight spread its dusky robe upon the waters, she stretched her arms out to the silent river that had known her sorrow and her joy. And the old river had taken her into its gentle arms, and had laid her weary head upon its bosom, and had hushed away the pain.

Thus had she sinned in all things — sinned in living and in dying (так согрешила она во всем — согрешила и в жизни, и в смерти). God help her (да поможет ей Бог)! and all other sinners, if any more there be (и всем другим грешникам, сколько бы их ни было).