2012年11月21日星期三

” 保罗讲完这些话

“谢谢你,弗洛伊!”
保罗讲完这些话,合上眼睛,睡着了。当他醒来的时候,太阳已经升高,白天明亮、温暖。他躺了一会儿,望着打开的窗子和在微风中飒飒作响、来回飘动的窗帘;然后他问道:
“弗洛伊,mont blanc pens,明天到了吗?她来了吗?”
似乎已经有人去找她了。也许是苏珊。保罗觉得,当他重新合上眼睛的时候,他听到她告诉他,她很快就会回来;但是他没有张开眼睛看。她信守她的诺言——也许她先前从没有离开过呢——可是接着,楼梯上传来了一阵脚步声,于是保罗醒来了——脑子和身体全都清醒了——,笔直地坐在床上。他现在看见他们都聚集在他的身旁。夜间有时出现的那一层灰蒙蒙的雾,已经在他们面前消失。他认识他们每一个人,并喊出他们每一个人的名字。
“这是谁呀?是我从前的奶妈吗?”孩子容光焕发,满脸笑容地望着走进来的一个人影儿问道。
是的,是的。不会有另一位陌生人见到他的时候会流出那些眼泪,会把他叫做她亲爱的孩子,她宝贝的孩子,她可怜的多病多难的孩子。不会有另外一位妇女会在他的床旁弯下身来,举起他消瘦的手,贴在她的嘴唇和胸脯上,像一个有权利爱抚他的人那样。不会有另外一位妇女会这样把所有在场的人全都忘记,而只记得他和弗洛伊两人,会对他们两人这样充满了亲切与怜悯的感情。
“弗洛伊,她的脸多么慈祥、多么善良呀!”保罗说道,“我真高兴,我又看到它了。别离开,老奶妈!待在这里吧。”
他所有的感官都敏锐起来了,他听到一个他熟悉的名字,nike shox torch ii
“是谁说‘沃尔特’的?”他环顾四周,问道,“有人说到沃尔特,他在这里吗?我非常想看到他。”
谁也没有直接回答他,但是他的父亲立刻对苏珊说,“那就喊他回来吧,让他上楼来!”在短暂的等待时间中,保罗怀着兴趣与惊异,微笑地看着他的奶妈,看到她没有忘记弗洛伊。不久,沃尔特被领进房间。他那坦诚的脸孔和态度,他那快活的眼睛,使他一直成为保罗所喜爱的人;保罗看到他时,伸出手说,“别了。”
“别了,我的孩子!”皮普钦太太急忙跑到他的床头,说道,“不是别了吧?”
保罗用沉思的脸色朝她望了一会儿,过去他在炉边的角落里就经常用这种脸色凝视着她的。“啊,是的,”他平静地说,“别了!亲爱的沃尔特,别了!”他把头转向沃尔特站着的地方,再次伸出手。“爸爸在哪里?”
这些话还没有说出口来,他就感觉到了他父亲贴住他脸颊时的呼吸。
“别忘记沃尔特,亲爱的爸爸,”他望着他的脸,低声说道,“别忘记沃尔特。我喜欢沃尔特!”那只虚弱的手在空中挥动着,仿佛它再一次向沃尔特喊道,“别了!”
“现在把我放下来躺着,”他说,“弗洛伊,走来挨近我,让我看着你!”
姐姐和弟弟伸出胳膊互相拥抱着。金黄色的阳光射进房间,射到他们紧紧抱在一起的身上。
“河水在绿色的河岸与芦苇中间流得多么快呀!弗洛伊!但是它离海很近了。我听到了海浪的声音!它们老是说着这样的话!”
接着,他告诉她,小船在河流上漂动,replica gucci wallets,正在向他催眠。现在河岸多么葱翠,上面长着的花朵是多么鲜艳,芦苇是多么高!现在小船已经驶进海里了,但它仍旧继续平稳地向前滑行着。现在海岸出现在他前面。谁站在岸上?——他像平时祈祷时那样合着双手。他并没有把双手合拢。
“妈妈像你,弗洛伊。我从你的脸孔中认出了她!但请告诉他们,学校里楼梯上的那幅圣像没有充分表现出神圣的气概。我走的时候,他头上的灵光正为我照耀着道路!”
墙上金黄色的涟漪又重新在荡漾,房间里没有别的在动。那古老而又古老的先例啊,Moncler Outlet!随着我们有了最初的衣服,这先例就已创立了,它将永不改变地延续下去,直到我们的族类走完了他们的旅程为止,到那时辽阔的苍穹就像一幅卷轴似地收卷了起来,那古老而又古老的先例——死亡啊!
啊,凡是看见的人都要感谢上帝,为了那更为古老的先例——永生!天使般的孩子们啊,当湍急的河流运载着我们漂向海洋去的时候,请别那样疏远冷漠地看着我们吧!
Chapter 17
Captain Cuttle does a little Business for the Young People

Captain Cuttle, in the exercise of that surprising talent for deep-laid and unfathomable scheming, with which (as is not unusual in men of transparent simplicity) he sincerely believed himself to be endowed by nature, had gone to Mr Dombey's house on the eventful Sunday, winking all the way as a vent for his superfluous sagacity, and had presented himself in the full lustre of the ankle-jacks before the eyes of Towlinson. Hearing from that individual, to his great concern, of the impending calamity, Captain Cuttle, in his delicacy, sheered off again confounded; merely handing in the nosegay as a small mark of his solicitude, and leaving his respectful compliments for the family in general, which he accompanied with an expression of his hope that they would lay their heads well to the wind under existing circumstances, and a friendly intimation that he would 'look up again' to-morrow.
The Captain's compliments were never heard of any more. The Captain's nosegay, after lying in the hall all night, was swept into the dust-bin next morning; and the Captain's sly arrangement, involved in one catastrophe with greater hopes and loftier designs, was crushed to pieces. So, when an avalanche bears down a mountain-forest, twigs and bushes suffer with the trees, and all perish together.
When Walter returned home on the Sunday evening from his long walk, and its memorable close, he was too much occupied at first by the tidings he had to give them, and by the emotions naturally awakened in his breast by the scene through which he had passed, to observe either that his Uncle was evidently unacquainted with the intelligence the Captain had undertaken to impart, or that the Captain made signals with his hook, warning him to avoid the subject. Not that the Captain's signals were calculated to have proved very comprehensible, however attentively observed; for, like those Chinese sages who are said in their conferences to write certain learned words in the air that are wholly impossible of pronunciation, the Captain made such waves and flourishes as nobody without a previous knowledge of his mystery, would have been at all likely to understand.

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