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第十章　夏泼小姐交朋友了

属类： 双语小说 【分类】世界名著 -[作者: 萨克雷] 阅读：[45758]
CHAPTER X Miss Sharp Begins to Make Friends
聪明漂亮的利蓓加出身于贫穷的画师家庭，从小父母双亡，在平克顿女子学校受尽歧视。离校后她凭着美貌和机智，不择手段地猎取金钱，通过投机和冒险，力图挤进上流社会。几经坎坷，几度荣辱，在英国社会的名利场中，她最终还是默默无闻地度日。围绕利蓓加，小说成功地塑造了爱米丽亚、乔治、罗登、乔瑟夫、克劳莱小姐、都宾等人物的形象。[5]原作副题是《没有主角的小说》，这里的人物不是简单化的或好或坏，他们都有着复杂而深刻的内心活动。利蓓加已成为十九世纪初期英国社会的一个女冒险家的典型
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克劳莱家里好些和蔼可亲的人物，在前几页里面已经描写过了。利蓓加现在算他们一家人，当然有责任讨恩人们的喜欢，尽力得到他们的信任。这话是她自己说的。像她这么一个无依无靠的孤儿，能够知恩感德，真值得夸奖。就算她的打算有些自私的地方，谁也不能否认这份儿深谋远虑是很合理的。

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And now, being received as a member of the amiable family whose portraits we have sketched in the foregoing pages, it became naturally Rebecca’s duty to make herself, as she said, agreeable to her benefactors, and to gain their confidence to the utmost of her power. Who can but admire this quality of gratitude in an unprotected orphan; and, if there entered some degree of selfishness into her calculations, who can say but that her prudence was perfectly justifiable?

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这孤苦伶仃的女孩儿说：“我只有单身一个人。除了自己劳力所得，没有什么别的指望。爱米丽亚那粉红脸儿的小不点儿，还没有我一半懂事，倒有十万镑财产，住宅家具奴仆一应俱全。可怜的利蓓加（我的腰身比爱米丽亚的好看得多了），只能靠着自己和自己的聪明来打天下。瞧着吧，我仗着这点聪明，总有一天过活得很有气派，总有一天让爱米丽亚小姐瞧瞧我比她强多少。

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”I am alone in the world,” said the friendless girl. ”I have nothing to look for but what my own labour can bring me; and while that little pink-faced chit Amelia, with not half my sense, has ten thousand pounds and an establishment secure, poor Rebecca (and my figure is far better than hers) has only herself and her own wits to trust to. Well, let us see if my wits cannot provide me with an honourable maintenance, and if some day or the other I cannot show Miss Amelia my real superiority over her.

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我倒并不讨厌她，谁能够讨厌这么一个没用的好心人儿呢？可是如果将来我的地位比她高，那多美啊！不信我就到不了那么一天。”我们的小朋友一脑袋幻想，憧憬着美丽的将来。在她的空中楼阁里面，最主要的人物就是她的丈夫，请大家听了这话别嗔怪她。

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Not that I dislike poor Amelia: who can dislike such a harmless, good-natured creature?—only it will be a fine day when I can take my place above her in the world, as why, indeed, should I not?” Thus it was that our little romantic friend formed visions of the future for herself—nor must we be scandalised that, in all her castles in the air, a husband was the principal inhabitant.

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小姐们的心思转来转去不就想着丈夫吗？她们亲爱的妈妈不也老是在筹划她们的婚事吗？利蓓加说道：“我只能做我自己的妈妈。”她回想到自己和乔斯·赛特笠的一场不如意事，心里难过，只能自己认输。

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Of what else have young ladies to think, but husbands? Of what else do their dear mammas think? ”I must be my own mamma,” said Rebecca; not without a tingling consciousness of defeat, as she thought over her little misadventure with Jos Sedley.

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她很精明，决定在女王的克劳莱巩固自己的地位，舒舒服服过日子。因此在她周围的人，凡是和她有利害关系的，她都想法子笼络。

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So she wisely determined to render her position with the Queen’s Crawley family comfortable and secure, and to this end resolved to make friends of every one around her who could at all interfere with her comfort.

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克劳莱夫人算不得什么。她懒洋洋的，做人非常疲软，在家里全无地位。利蓓加不久发现不值得费力结交她，而且即使费了力也是枉然。她和学生们说起话来，总称她为“你们那可怜的妈妈”。她对于克劳莱夫人不冷不热，不错规矩，却很聪明的把大部分的心思用在其余各人身上。

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As my Lady Crawley was not one of these personages, and a woman, moreover, so indolent and void of character as not to be of the least consequence in her own house, Rebecca soon found that it was not at all necessary to cultivate her good will—indeed, impossible to gain it. She used to talk to her pupils about their "poor mamma"; and, though she treated that lady with every demonstration of cool respect, it was to the rest of the family that she wisely directed the chief part of her attentions.

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两个孩子全心喜欢她。她的方法很简单，对学生不多给功课，随她们自由发展。你想，什么教育法比自学的效力更大呢？

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With the young people, whose applause she thoroughly gained, her method was pretty simple. She did not pester their young brains with too much learning, but, on the contrary, let them have their own way in regard to educating themselves; for what instruction is more effectual than self-instruction?

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大的孩子很喜欢看书。在女王的克劳莱大厦的书房里，有不少十八世纪的文学作品，有英文的，也有法文的，都是轻松的读物。这些书还是照例行文局的秘书在倒台的时候买下来的。目前家里的人从来不挨书架，因此利蓓加能够随心如意的给露丝·克劳莱小姐灌输许多知识连带着娱乐自己的心性。

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The eldest was rather fond of books, and as there was in the old library at Queen’s Crawley a considerable provision of works of light literature of the last century, both in the French and English languages (they had been purchased by the Secretary of the Tape and Sealing Wax Office at the period of his disgrace), and as nobody ever troubled the bookshelves but herself, Rebecca was enabled agreeably, and, as it were, in playing, to impart a great deal of instruction to Miss Rose Crawley.

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她和露丝小姐一起读了许多有趣的英文书法文书，作家包括渊博的斯摩莱特博士①，聪明机巧的菲尔丁先生②，风格典雅、布局突兀的小克雷比勇先生③（他是咱们不朽的诗人格蕾④一再推崇的），还有无所不通的伏尔泰先生⑤。

①斯摩莱特（Tobias　Smollett，1721—71），英国小说家。②菲尔丁（Henry　Fielding，1705—54），英国小说家。③克雷比勇（Claude　Crébillon，1707—77），法国戏剧家和小说家。④格蕾（Thomas　Gray，1716—71），英国诗人。⑤伏尔泰（Voltaire，1694—1778），法国作家，是推动法国大革命的力量之一。
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She and Miss Rose thus read together many delightful French and English works, among which may be mentioned those of the learned Dr. Smollett, of the ingenious Mr. Henry Fielding, of the graceful and fantastic Monsieur Crebillon the younger, whom our immortal poet Gray so much admired, and of the universal Monsieur de Voltaire.

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有一回克劳莱先生问起两个孩子究竟读什么书。她们的教师回答道：“斯摩莱特。”克劳莱先生听了很满意，说道：“啊，斯摩莱特。他的历史很沉闷，不过不像休姆先生①的作品一样有危害性。你们在念历史吗？”露丝小姐答道：“是的。”可是没有说明白念的是亨弗瑞·克林格的历史②。

①休姆（David　Hume，1711—76），英国哲学家，曾写过英国都铎王朝及斯丢亚王朝的历史。斯摩莱特曾写过英国历史。②斯摩莱特的小说。
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Once, when Mr. Crawley asked what the young people were reading, the governess replied ”Smollett.” ”Oh, Smollett,” said Mr. Crawley, quite satisfied. ”His history is more dull, but by no means so dangerous as that of Mr. Hume. It is history you are reading?” ”Yes,” said Miss Rose; without, however, adding that it was the history of Mr. Humphrey Clinker.

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又有一回他发现妹妹在看一本法文戏剧，不由得有些嗔怪的意思，后来那教师跟他解释，说是借此学习法国人谈话中的成语，他也就罢了。克劳莱先生因为是外交家，一向得意自己法文说的好（他对于世事还关心得很呢！），听得女教师不住口的夸赞他的法文，心上非常欢喜。

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On another occasion he was rather scandalised at finding his sister with a book of French plays; but as the governess remarked that it was for the purpose of acquiring the French idiom in conversation, he was fain to be content. Mr. Crawley, as a diplomatist, was exceedingly proud of his own skill in speaking the French language (for he was of the world still), and not a little pleased with the compliments which the governess continually paid him upon his proficiency.

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凡奥兰小姐的兴趣恰好相反。她闹闹嚷嚷的，比她姐姐卤莽得多。她知道母鸡在什么隐僻的角落里下蛋。她会爬树，把鸟窝里斑斑点点的鸟蛋偷掉。她爱骑着小马，像卡密拉①一般在旷野里奔跑。她是她爸爸和马夫们的宝贝。

①卡密拉（Camilla）是神话中伏尔西地方的皇后，她跑得飞快，因此跑过麦田，麦叶不弯，跑过海洋，两脚不湿。
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Miss Violet’s tastes were, on the contrary, more rude and boisterous than those of her sister. She knew the sequestered spots where the hens laid their eggs. She could climb a tree to rob the nests of the feathered songsters of their speckled spoils. And her pleasure was to ride the young colts, and to scour the plains like Camilla. She was the favourite of her father and of the stablemen.

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厨娘最宠她，可是也最怕她，因为她有本事把一罐罐藏得好好儿的糖酱找出来，只要拿得着，无有不偷吃的。她跟姐姐不停的拌嘴吵架。夏泼小姐有时发现她犯这些小过错，从来不去告诉克劳莱夫人。因为克劳莱夫人一知道，少不得转告她爸爸，或者告诉克劳莱先生，那就更糟。利蓓加答应保守秘密，只要凡奥兰小姐乖乖的做好孩子，爱她的教师。

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She was the darling, and withal the terror of the cook; for she discovered the haunts of the jam-pots, and would attack them when they were within her reach. She and her sister were engaged in constant battles. Any of which peccadilloes, if Miss Sharp discovered, she did not tell them to Lady Crawley; who would have told them to the father, or worse, to Mr. Crawley; but promised not to tell if Miss Violet would be a good girl and love her governess.

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夏泼小姐对克劳莱先生又恭敬又服帖。虽然她自己的妈妈是法国人，可是常常碰到看不懂的法文句子，拿去向他请教。克劳莱先生每回给她讲解得清清楚楚。他真肯帮忙，除了文学方面点拨利蓓加以外，还替她挑选宗教气息比较浓厚的读物，而且常常和她谈天。

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With Mr. Crawley Miss Sharp was respectful and obedient. She used to consult him on passages of French which she could not understand, though her mother was a Frenchwoman, and which he would construe to her satisfaction: and, besides giving her his aid in profane literature, he was kind enough to select for her books of a more serious tendency, and address to her much of his conversation.

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利蓓加听了他在瓜希马布传教团劝募会上的演说，佩服得五体投地，对于他那关于麦芽的小册子也很感兴趣。有时他晚上在家讲道，她听了感动得掉下泪来，口里说：“啊，先生，谢谢你。”一面说，一面翻起眼睛瞧着天叹一口气。克劳莱先生听了这话，往往赏脸和她握手。

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She admired, beyond measure, his speech at the Quashimaboo-Aid Society; took an interest in his pamphlet on malt: was often affected, even to tears, by his discourses of an evening, and would say—”Oh, thank you, sir,” with a sigh, and a look up to heaven, that made him occasionally condescend to shake hands with her.

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贵族出身的宗教家常说：“血统到底是要紧的，你看，只有夏泼小姐受我的启发而领悟了真理。这儿别的人都无动于中。我的话实在太细腻、太微妙了，他们是听不懂的。以后得想法子通俗化一些才好。可是她就能领会。她的母亲是蒙脱莫伦茜①一族的。”

①蒙脱莫伦茜（Maison　de　Montmorency）是法国最有名的豪门望族之一，从十二世纪起已经公侯辈出。
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”Blood is everything, after all,” would that aristocratic religionist say. ”How Miss Sharp is awakened by my words, when not one of the people here is touched. I am too fine for them—too delicate. I must familiarise my style—but she understands it. Her mother was a Montmorency.”

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看来这家名门望族就是夏泼小姐的外婆家，对于她母亲上舞台的事，她当然一句不提，免得触犯了克劳莱先生宗教上的顾忌。说来可恨，从法国大革命之后，流亡在外国的贵族无以为生的真不在少数。

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Indeed it was from this famous family, as it appears, that Miss Sharp, by the mother’s side, was descended. Of course she did not say that her mother had been on the stage; it would have shocked Mr. Crawley’s religious scruples. How many noble emigres had this horrid revolution plunged in poverty!

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利蓓加进门没有几个月就讲了好几个关于她祖宗的轶事。其中有几个，克劳莱先生发现书房里那本陶齐哀字典①里也有记载，更加深信不疑，断定利蓓加的确是世家后裔。他好奇心那么强，甚至于肯去翻字典，难道是因为他对利蓓加有意吗？我们的女主角能不能这么猜测一下呢？不！这不过是普通的感情罢了。我不是老早说过他看中的是吉恩·希伯香克斯小姐吗？

①陶齐哀（D’Hozior）是法国有名谱牒学世家，祖孙叔侄都以谱牒学出名，此处所说的字典，是路易士·陶齐哀（Louis　Pierre　D’Hozier，1685—1767）和他儿子安东·马列·陶齐哀（Antoine　Marie　D’Hozier　de　Serigny，1721—1810）合著的。
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She had several stories about her ancestors ere she had been many months in the house; some of which Mr. Crawley happened to find in D’Hozier’s dictionary, which was in the library, and which strengthened his belief in their truth, and in the high-breeding of Rebecca. Are we to suppose from this curiosity and prying into dictionaries, could our heroine suppose that Mr. Crawley was interested in her?—no, only in a friendly way. Have we not stated that he was attached to Lady Jane Sheepshanks?

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有一两回，他看见利蓓加陪着毕脱爵士玩双陆，就去责备她，说是不敬上帝的人才喜欢这玩意儿，不如看看《脱伦浦的遗产》和《靡尔非尔的瞎眼洗衣妇》这类正经书来得有益。夏泼小姐回说她亲爱的妈妈从前常常陪着特·脱利克脱辣克老伯爵和地·各内修院住持玩这种游戏。这样一说，这类世俗的玩意儿都可以上场了。

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He took Rebecca to task once or twice about the propriety of playing at backgammon with Sir Pitt, saying that it was a godless amusement, and that she would be much better engaged in reading "Thrump’s Legacy," or "The Blind Washerwoman of Moorfields," or any work of a more serious nature; but Miss Sharp said her dear mother used often to play the same game with the old Count de Trictrac and the venerable Abbe du Cornet, and so found an excuse for this and other worldly amusements.

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家庭教师笼络她东家的方法并不限于陪他玩双陆。她还在许多别的事情上为他效劳。她没有到女王的克劳莱以前，毕脱爵士曾经答应把案卷给她消遣，如今她孜孜不倦的把所有的案卷都看过一遍，又自动帮他抄写信件，并且巧妙地改正他的别字，使他写的字合于时下沿用的体例。

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But it was not only by playing at backgammon with the Baronet, that the little governess rendered herself agreeable to her employer. She found many different ways of being useful to him. She read over, with indefatigable patience, all those law papers, with which, before she came to Queen’s Crawley, he had promised to entertain her. She volunteered to copy many of his letters, and adroitly altered the spelling of them so as to suit the usages of the present day.

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凡是和庄地、农场、猎苑、花园、马房有关系的一切事务，她都爱知道。从男爵觉得跟她做伴实在有趣，早饭后出去散步的时候总带着她——孩子们当然也跟着一块儿去。她向他提供许多意见，像灌木该怎么修剪，谷物该怎么收割，花床里怎么栽花，怎么套车，怎么犁田。

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She became interested in everything appertaining to the estate, to the farm, the park, the garden, and the stables; and so delightful a companion was she, that the Baronet would seldom take his after-breakfast walk without her (and the children of course), when she would give her advice as to the trees which were to be lopped in the shrubberies, the garden-beds to be dug, the crops which were to be cut, the horses which were to go to cart or plough.

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夏泼小姐在女王的克劳莱不满一年，已经成了从男爵的亲信。本来毕脱爵士吃饭的时候常跟佣人头儿霍洛克斯先生说话，如今只跟她说话了。克劳莱先生不在家的时候，她差不多是宅子里的主妇。她的新地位虽然高，可是她留心不去冒犯管厨房和管马房的体面佣人。对他们又虚心又客气。

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Before she had been a year at Queen’s Crawley she had quite won the Baronet’s confidence; and the conversation at the dinner-table, which before used to be held between him and Mr. Horrocks the butler, was now almost exclusively between Sir Pitt and Miss Sharp. She was almost mistress of the house when Mr. Crawley was absent, but conducted herself in her new and exalted situation with such circumspection and modesty as not to offend the authorities of the kitchen and stable, among whom her behaviour was always exceedingly modest and affable.

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我们以前看见的利蓓加，还是个骄傲、怕羞、满腹牢骚的女孩子；现在可不同了。她的性情有了转变，足见她为人谨慎，有心向上，至少可说她有痛改前非的勇气。利蓓加采取了新作风，做人谦逊和顺，究竟她是否出于至诚，只要看她以后的历史就能知道。

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She was quite a different person from the haughty, shy, dissatisfied little girl whom we have known previously, and this change of temper proved great prudence, a sincere desire of amendment, or at any rate great moral courage on her part. Whether it was the heart which dictated this new system of complaisance and humility adopted by our Rebecca, is to be proved by her after-history.

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长时期的虚情假意，二十一岁的年轻人恐怕装不出吧？可是话又说回来，我们这女主角年纪虽小，经验可不少，行事着实老练。各位读者如果到现在还没有发现利蓓加聪明能干，写书的真是白费力气了。

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A system of hypocrisy, which lasts through whole years, is one seldom satisfactorily practised by a person of one-and-twenty; however, our readers will recollect, that, though young in years, our heroine was old in life and experience, and we have written to no purpose if they have not discovered that she was a very clever woman.

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克劳莱家里的两兄弟牙痒痒的你恨我我嫌你，因此像晴雨表盒子里的一男一女，从来不同时在家①。不瞒你说，罗登·克劳莱，那个骑兵，压根儿瞧不起自己的老家。他姑妈一年来拜访一次，他也跟着来，平常是不高兴回家的。

①男女两人一个是天晴的标记，一个是天雨的标记。
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The elder and younger son of the house of Crawley were, like the gentleman and lady in the weather-box, never at home together—they hated each other cordially: indeed, Rawdon Crawley, the dragoon, had a great contempt for the establishment altogether, and seldom came thither except when his aunt paid her annual visit.

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关于这位老太太了不起的好处，前面已经说过。她有七万镑财产，而且差不多已经收了罗登做干儿子。她最讨厌大侄儿，嫌他是个脓包，瞧他不起。克劳莱先生呢，也毫不迟疑的断定她的灵魂已经没有救星，而且说他弟弟罗登死后的命运也不会比姑妈的好。

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The great good quality of this old lady has been mentioned. She possessed seventy thousand pounds, and had almost adopted Rawdon. She disliked her elder nephew exceedingly, and despised him as a milksop. In return he did not hesitate to state that her soul was irretrievably lost, and was of opinion that his brother’s chance in the next world was not a whit better.

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他常说：“她这人最贪享受，而且眼里没有上帝，老跟法国人和无神论者混在一起，我一想起她这危险的处境就忍不住发抖。她离死不远了，竟还是这么骄奢婬佚，爱慕虚荣。而且她一味的糊涂，开口亵渎神明，想起来真叫人担心。”事情是这样的，他每晚要花一个钟头讲道，老太太一口回绝不要听。如果姑妈单身到女王的克劳莱作客，他的经常晚祷便不得不停止。

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”She is a godless woman of the world,” would Mr. Crawley say; ”she lives with atheists and Frenchmen. My mind shudders when I think of her awful, awful situation, and that, near as she is to the grave, she should be so given up to vanity, licentiousness, profaneness, and folly.” In fact, the old lady declined altogether to hear his hour’s lecture of an evening; and when she came to Queen’s Crawley alone, he was obliged to pretermit his usual devotional exercises.

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他父亲说：“毕脱，克劳莱小姐回来的时候别讲道。她写信来说她最讨厌人家传道说法。”

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"Shut up your sarmons, Pitt, when Miss Crawley comes down," said his father; "she has written to say that she won’t stand the preachifying."

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“唷，佣人们怎么办呢？”

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"O, sir! consider the servants."

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毕脱爵士答道：“呸！佣人们上了吊我也不管。”儿子的意思认为听不到他的讲道比上吊更糟。

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"The servants be hanged," said Sir Pitt; and his son thought even worse would happen were they deprived of the benefit of his instruction.

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他这么一辩驳，他父亲就说：“怎么了，毕脱，难道你愿意家里少三千镑一年的进款吗？你不能这么糊涂吧？”

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"Why, hang it, Pitt!" said the father to his remonstrance. "You wouldn’t be such a flat as to let three thousand a year go out of the family?"

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克劳莱先生答道：“比起咱们的灵魂来，几个钱算得了什么？”

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"What is money compared to our souls, sir?" continued Mr. Crawley.

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“你的意思是，反正老太太的钱不给你，对不对啊？”克劳莱先生也许竟是这个意思，也未可知。

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"You mean that the old lady won’t leave the money to you?"—and who knows but it was Mr. Crawley’s meaning?

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克劳莱小姐的生活的确腐败得很。她在派克街有一所舒服的小宅子，每逢夏天上哈罗该脱和契尔顿纳姆避暑，因为在伦敦应酬交际最热闹的时候她老是吃喝得太多，非得活动活动不可。所有的老姑娘里头，算她最好客，兴致也最高。据她自己说，当年她还是个美人儿呢！（我们知道，所有的老婆子当年都是美人儿。）

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Old Miss Crawley was certainly one of the reprobate. She had a snug little house in Park Lane, and, as she ate and drank a great deal too much during the season in London, she went to Harrowgate or Cheltenham for the summer. She was the most hospitable and jovial of old vestals, and had been a beauty in her day, she said. (All old women were beauties once, we very well know.)

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她谈吐风趣，在当时是个骇人听闻的激进分子。她到过法国；听说她在哪儿有过一页伤心史，竟爱上了圣·于斯德①。她从法国回来以后，一直喜欢法国小说、法国酒和法国式烹调。她爱看伏尔泰的作品，背得出卢梭②的名句，把离婚看得稀松平常，并且竭力提倡女权。

①圣·于斯德（Louis　de　Saint－Just，1767—94），法国大革命的领袖之一。②卢梭（Jean　Jacques　Rousseau，1721—78），和伏尔泰同时的作家，主张解除束缚，回到自然，对当时法国人的思想极有影响，是推动法国大革命的力量之一。
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She was a bel esprit, and a dreadful Radical for those days. She had been in France (where St. Just, they say, inspired her with an unfortunate passion), and loved, ever after, French novels, French cookery, and French wines. She read Voltaire, and had Rousseau by heart; talked very lightly about divorce, and most energetically of the rights of women.

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她屋子里每间房里都有福克斯先生①的肖像。这位政治家在野的时候，她大概跟他在一块儿赌过钱。他上台之后，她常常自夸，说毕脱爵士和女王的克劳莱选区另外的一个代表所以肯投票选举福克斯，都是她的功劳。其实即使这位忠厚的老太太不管这事，毕脱爵士也会选福克斯的。这了不起的自由党员去世以后，毕脱爵士才改变了原来的政治见解，这也是理所当然的事。

①福克斯（Charles　James　Fox，1749—1806），英国政治家。他很有学问，可是很爱赌。
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She had pictures of Mr. Fox in every room in the house: when that statesman was in opposition, I am not sure that she had not flung a main with him; and when he came into office, she took great credit for bringing over to him Sir Pitt and his colleague for Queen’s Crawley, although Sir Pitt would have come over himself, without any trouble on the honest lady’s part. It is needless to say that Sir Pitt was brought to change his views after the death of the great Whig statesman.

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罗登小的时候，这好老太太就很喜欢他，把他送到剑桥大学去读书（因为哥哥进的是牛津大学，因此存心和哥哥对立），两年之后，剑桥大学当局请他不必再去了，姑妈便又替他在禁卫军里捐了个军官的位置。

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This worthy old lady took a fancy to Rawdon Crawley when a boy, sent him to Cambridge (in opposition to his brother at Oxford), and, when the young man was requested by the authorities of the first-named University to quit after a residence of two years, she bought him his commission in the Life Guards Green.

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这年轻军官是个有名的花花公子。那时英国的贵族都爱拳击，猎田鼠，玩壁球，还爱一个人赶四匹马拉的马车。这些高超的学问，罗登没一门不精通。他属于禁卫军，责任在保卫摄政王的安全，因此没有到外国去打过仗。虽然这么说，他已经和人决斗了三次（三次都因为赌|博而起，因为罗登爱赌爱得没有节制），可见他一点儿不怕死。

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A perfect and celebrated "blood," or dandy about town, was this young officer. Boxing, rat-hunting, the fives court, and four-in-hand driving were then the fashion of our British aristocracy; and he was an adept in all these noble sciences. And though he belonged to the household troops, who, as it was their duty to rally round the Prince Regent, had not shown their valour in foreign service yet, Rawdon Crawley had already (apropos of play, of which he was immoderately fond) fought three bloody duels, in which he gave ample proofs of his contempt for death.

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“也不怕死后的遭遇，”克劳莱先生一面说，一面翻起黑莓颜色的眼珠子望着天花板。他老是惦记着弟弟的灵魂。凡是有什么人意见和他不合，他就为他们的灵魂发愁。好些正经人都像他这样，觉得这是一种安慰。

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"And for what follows after death," would Mr. Crawley observe, throwing his gooseberry-coloured eyes up to the ceiling. He was always thinking of his brother’s soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.

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克劳莱小姐又糊涂又浪漫，瞧着她的宝贝罗登仗着血气之勇干这些事，不但不害怕，在他决斗过后还代他还债。她不准别人批评他的品行，总是说：“少年荒唐是普通事。他那哥哥才是个脓包伪君子，罗登比他强多了。”

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Silly, romantic Miss Crawley, far from being horrified at the courage of her favourite, always used to pay his debts after his duels; and would not listen to a word that was whispered against his morality. "He will sow his wild oats," she would say, "and is worth far more than that puling hypocrite of a brother of his."

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