But notwithstanding when Miss Price on the following Sunday offered to take him to the Louvre Philip accepted. She showed him Mona Lisa. He looked at it with a slight feeling of disappointment, but he had read till he knew by heart the jewelled words with which Walter Pater has added beauty to the most famous picture in the world; and these now he repeated to Miss Price.
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"那纯粹是文人的舞文弄墨,"她用略带几分鄙夷的口吻说,"千万别信那一套。"
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‘That’s all literature,’ she said, a little contemptuously. ‘You must get away from that.’
She showed him the Odalisque and La Source of Ingres. Fanny Price was a peremptory guide, she would not let him look at the things he wished, and attempted to force his admiration for all she admired. She was desperately in earnest with her study of art, and when Philip, passing in the Long Gallery a window that looked out on the Tuileries, gay, sunny, and urbane , like a picture by Raffaelli, exclaimed:
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"嘿,太美啦!让咱们在这儿逗留一会儿吧。"
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‘I say, how jolly! Do let’s stop here a minute.’
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然而,普赖斯却无动于衷,漠然地说:"好吧,呆一会儿也无妨。不过别忘了咱们是来这儿看画的。"
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She said, indifferently: ‘Yes, it’s all right. But we’ve come here to look at pictures.’
The autumn air, blithe and vivacious , elated Philip; and when towards mid-day they stood in the great court-yard of the Louvre, he felt inclined to cry like Flanagan: To hell with art.
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"我说啊,咱俩一块上米歇尔大街,找家馆子随便吃点什么,怎么样?"菲利普提议说。
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‘I say, do let’s go to one of those restaurants in the Boul’ Mich’ and have a snack together, shall we?’ he suggested.
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普赖斯小姐向他投来怀疑的目光。
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Miss Price gave him a suspicious look.
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"我已在家里准备好了午饭,"她说。
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‘I’ve got my lunch waiting for me at home,’ she answered.
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"那也没关系,可以留着明天吃嘛。你就让我请你一回吧。"
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‘That doesn’t matter. You can eat it tomorrow. Do let me stand you a lunch.’
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"不知道你干吗要请我呢。"
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‘I don’t know why you want to.’
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"这会让我感到高兴,"他微笑着回答。
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‘It would give me pleasure,’ he replied, smiling.
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他们过了河,圣米歇尔大街的拐角处有家餐馆。
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They crossed the river, and at the corner of the Boulevard St. Michel there was a restaurant.
She walked on firmly, and Philip was obliged to follow. A few steps brought them to a smaller restaurant, where a dozen people were already lunching on the pavement under an awning ; on the window was announced in large white letters: Dejeuner 1.25, vin compris.
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"不可能吃到比这更便宜的中饭了,再说这地方看来也挺不错的。"
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‘We couldn’t have anything cheaper than this, and it looks quite all right.’
They sat down at a vacant table and waited for the omelette which was the first article on the bill of fare. Philip gazed with delight upon the passers-by. His heart went out to them. He was tired but very happy.
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"哎,瞧那个穿短外套的,真逗!"
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‘I say, look at that man in the blouse. Isn’t he ripping!’
He glanced at Miss Price, and to his astonishment saw that she was looking down at her plate, regardless of the passing spectacle, and two heavy tears were rolling down her cheeks.
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"你这是怎么啦?"他惊呼道。
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‘What on earth’s the matter?’ he exclaimed.
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"别对我说什么,要不我这就起身走了,"她回答说。
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‘If you say anything to me I shall get up and go at once,’ she answered.
He was entirely puzzled, but fortunately at that moment the omelette came. He divided it in two and they began to eat. Philip did his best to talk of indifferent things, and it seemed as though Miss Price were making an effort on her side to be agreeable; but the luncheon was not altogether a success. Philip was squeamish, and the way in which Miss Price ate took his appetite away.
She ate noisily, greedily, a little like a wild beast in a menagerie, and after she had finished each course rubbed the plate with pieces of bread till it was white and shining, as if she did not wish to lose a single drop of gravy . They had Camembert cheese, and it disgusted Philip to see that she ate rind and all of the portion that was given her. She could not have eaten more ravenously if she were starving.
Miss Price was unaccountable, and having parted from her on one day with friendliness he could never tell whether on the next she would not be sulky and uncivil; but he learned a good deal from her: though she could not draw well herself, she knew all that could be taught, and her constant suggestions helped his progress. Mrs. Otter was useful to him too, and sometimes Miss Chalice criticised his work; he learned from the glibloquacity of Lawson and from the example of Clutton. But Fanny Price hated him to take suggestions from anyone but herself, and when he asked her help after someone else had been talking to him she would refuse with brutal rudeness. The other fellows, Lawson, Clutton, Flanagan, chaffed him about her.
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"留神点,小伙子,"他们说,"她已经爱上你啦。"
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‘You be careful, my lad,’ they said, ‘she’s in love with you.’
The thought that Miss Price could be in love with anyone was preposterous . It made him shudder when he thought of her uncomeliness, the bedraggled hair and the dirty hands, the brown dress she always wore, stained and ragged at the hem : he supposed she was hard up, they were all hard up, but she might at least be clean; and it was surely possible with a needle and thread to make her skirt tidy.
Philip began to sort his impressions of the people he was thrown in contact with. He was not so ingenuous as in those days which now seemed so long ago at Heidelberg, and, beginning to take a more deliberate interest in humanity, he was inclined to examine and to criticise . He found it difficult to know Clutton any better after seeing him every day for three months than on the first day of their acquaintance.
The general impression at the studio was that he was able; it was supposed that he would do great things, and he shared the general opinion; but what exactly he was going to do neither he nor anybody else quite knew. He had worked at several studios before Amitrano’s, at Julian’s, the Beaux Arts, and MacPherson’s, and was remaining longer at Amitrano’s than anywhere because he found himself more left alone.
He was not fond of showing his work, and unlike most of the young men who were studying art neither sought nor gave advice. It was said that in the little studio in the Rue Campagne Premiere, which served him for work-room and bed-room, he had wonderful pictures which would make his reputation if only he could be induced to exhibit them. He could not afford a model but painted still life, and Lawson constantly talked of a plate of apples which he declared was a masterpiece.
He was fastidious, and, aiming at something he did not quite fully grasp, was constantly dissatisfied with his work as a whole: perhaps a part would please him, the forearm or the leg and foot of a figure, a glass or a cup in a still-life; and he would cut this out and keep it, destroying the rest of the canvas; so that when people invited themselves to see his work he could truthfully answer that he had not a single picture to show.
In Brittany he had come across a painter whom nobody else had heard of, a queer fellow who had been a stockbroker and taken up painting at middle-age, and he was greatly influenced by his work. He was turning his back on the impressionists and working out for himself painfully an individual way not only of painting but of seeing. Philip felt in him something strangely original.
At Gravier’s where they ate, and in the evening at the Versailles or at the Closerie des Lilas Clutton was inclined to taciturnity. He sat quietly, with a sardonic expression on his gaunt face, and spoke only when the opportunity occurred to throw in a witticism . He liked a butt and was most cheerful when someone was there on whom he could exercise his sarcasm . He seldom talked of anything but painting, and then only with the one or two persons whom he thought worth while. Philip wondered whether there was in him really anything: his reticence , the haggard look of him, the pungent humour, seemed to suggest personality, but might be no more than an effective mask which covered nothing.
With Lawson on the other hand Philip soon grew intimate. He had a variety of interests which made him an agreeable companion. He read more than most of the students and though his income was small, loved to buy books. He lent them willingly; and Philip became acquainted with Flaubert and Balzac, with Verlaine, Heredia, and Villiers de l’Isle Adam. They went to plays together and sometimes to the gallery of the Opera Comique.
There was the Odeon quite near them, and Philip soon shared his friend’s passion for the tragedians of Louis XIV and the sonorousAlexandrine. In the Rue Taitbout were the Concerts Rouge , where for seventy-five centimes they could hear excellent music and get into the bargain something which it was quite possible to drink: the seats were uncomfortable, the place was crowded, the air thick with caporal horrible to breathe, but in their young enthusiasm they were indifferent.
Sometimes they went to the Bal Bullier. On these occasions Flanagan accompanied them. His excitability and his roisterous enthusiasm made them laugh. He was an excellent dancer, and before they had been ten minutes in the room he was prancing round with some little shop-girl whose acquaintance he had just made.
The desire of all of them was to have a mistress. It was part of the paraphernalia of the art-student in Paris. It gave consideration in the eyes of one’s fellows. It was something to boast about. But the difficulty was that they had scarcely enough money to keep themselves, and though they argued that French-women were so clever it cost no more to keep two then one, they found it difficult to meet young women who were willing to take that view of the circumstances.
He had a long and enviable list of triumphs to narrate , and though they took leave not to believe all he said, evidence forced them to acknowledge that he did not altogether lie. But he sought no permanent arrangement. He only had two years in Paris: he had persuaded his people to let him come and study art instead of going to college; but at the end of that period he was to return to Seattle and go into his father’s business. He had made up his mind to get as much fun as possible into the time, and demanded variety rather than duration in his love affairs.
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"真不知道你是怎么把那些娘儿弄到手的,"劳森愤愤不平地说。
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‘I don’t know how you get hold of them,’ said Lawson furiously.