I, fortunately as it turned out for us all, firmly refused to go with Yang's party, as I had just heard the rumour that steamers had stopped running to Tientsin.
对我乃至我们所有人来说幸运的是，我们坚决拒绝了和Yang一行一起走，因我刚听到轮船们已停止驶向天津的流言。