RELATES WHAT BECAME OF OLIVER TWIST, AFTER HE HAD BEEN CLAIMED BY NANCY
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“听见没有?”赛克斯见奥立弗缩手缩脚,直往后看,便咆哮起来。
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The narrow streets and courts, at length, terminated in a large open space; scattered about which, were pens for beasts, and other indications of a cattle-market. Sikes slackened his pace when they reached this spot: the girl being quite unable to support any longer, the rapid rate at which they had hitherto walked. Turning to Oliver, he roughly commanded him to take hold of Nancy’s hand.
’He’s as willing as a Christian, strike me blind if he isn’t!’ said Sikes, regarding the animal with a kind of grim and ferocious approval. ’Now, you know what you’ve got to expect, master, so call away as quick as you like; the dog will soon stop that game. Get on, young’un!’
Bull’s-eye wagged his tail in acknowledgment of this unusually endearing form of speech; and, giving vent to another admonitorygrowl for the benefit of Oliver, led the way onward.
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“八点了,比尔。”钟声停了,南希说道。
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It was Smithfield that they were crossing, although it might have been Grosvenor Square, for anything Oliver knew to the contrary. The night was dark and foggy. The lights in the shops could scarecely struggle through the heavy mist, which thickened every moment and shrouded the streets and houses in gloom; rendering the strange place still stranger in Oliver’s eyes; and making his uncertainty the more dismal and depressing.
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“用不着你说,我听得见。”赛克斯回答。
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They had hurried on a few paces, when a deep church-bell struck the hour. With its first stroke, his two conductors stopped, and turned their heads in the direction whence the sound proceeded.
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“不知道他们是不是听得见。”
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’Eight o’ clock, Bill,’ said Nancy, when the bell ceased.
’What’s the good of telling me that; I can hear it, can’t I!’ replied Sikes.
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①巴多罗买为基督十二使徒之一,该节系指每年八月二十四日的市集日。
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’I wonder whether THEY can hear it,’ said Nancy.
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“可怜的人啊。”南希说话时依然面朝着传来钟声的方向。“比尔,那么些漂亮小伙子。”
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’Of course they can,’ replied Sikes. ’It was Bartlemy time when I was shopped; and there warn’t a penny trumpet in the fair, as I couldn’t hear the squeaking on. Arter I was locked up for the night, the row and din outside made the thundering old jail so silent, that I could almost have beat my brains out against the iron plates of the door.’
With this consolation, Mr. Sikes appeared to repress a rising tendency to jealousy, and, clasping Oliver’s wrist more firmly, told him to step out again.
’Wait a minute!’ said the girl: ’I wouldn’t hurry by, if it was you that was coming out to be hung, the next time eight o’clock struck, Bill. I’d walk round and round the place till I dropped, if the snow was on the ground, and I hadn’t a shawl to cover me.’
’And what good would that do?’ inquired the unsentimental Mr. Sikes. ’Unless you could pitch over a file and twenty yards of good stout rope, you might as well be walking fifty mile off, or not walking at all, for all the good it would do me. Come on, and don’t stand preaching there.’
The girl burst into a laugh; drew her shawl more closely round her; and they walked away. But Oliver felt her hand tremble, and, looking up in her face as they passed a gas-lamp, saw that it had turned a deadly white.
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“到了。”赛克斯叫道,一边审慎地扫了四周一眼。
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They walked on, by little-frequented and dirty ways, for a full half-hour: meeting very few people, and those appearing from their looks to hold much the same position in society as Mr. Sikes himself. At length they turned into a very filthy narrow street, nearly full of old-clothes shops; the dog running forward, as if conscious that there was no further occasion for his keeping on guard, stopped before the door of a shop that was closed and apparently untenanted; the house was in a ruinous condition, and on the door was nailed a board, intimating that it was to let: which looked as if it had hung there for many years.
Nancy stooped below the shutters, and Oliver heard the sound of a bell. They crossed to the opposite side of the street, and stood for a few moments under a lamp. A noise, as if a sash window were gently raised, was heard; and soon afterwards the door softly opened. Mr. Sikes then seized the terrified boy by the collar with very little ceremony; and all three were quickly inside the house.
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“有没有人?”赛克斯问。
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The passage was perfectly dark. They waited, while the person who had let them in, chained and barred the door.
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“没有。”一个声音答道,奥立弗觉得这声音以前听到过。
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’Anybody here?’ inquired Sikes.
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“老家伙在不在?”这强盗问。
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’No,’ replied a voice, which Oliver thought he had heard before.
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“在,”那个声音回答,“唉声叹气个没完。他哪儿会高兴见到你呢?呢,不会的。”
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’Is the old ’un here?’ asked the robber.
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这番答话的调门,还有那副嗓音,奥立弗听上去都有些耳熟,可黑暗中他连说话人的轮廓都分辨不出来。
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’Yes,’ replied the voice, ’and precious down in the mouth he has been. Won’t he be glad to see you? Oh, no!’
The style of this reply, as well as the voice which delivered it, seemed familiar to Oliver’s ears: but it was impossible to distinguish even the form of the speaker in the darkness.
’Stand still a moment, and I’ll get you one,’ replied the voice. The receding footsteps of the speaker were heard; and, in another minute, the form of Mr. John Dawkins, otherwise the Artful Dodger, appeared. He bore in his right hand a tallow candle stuck in the end of a cleft stick.
The young gentleman did not stop to bestow any other mark of recognition upon Oliver than a humourous grin; but, turning away, beckoned the visitors to follow him down a flight of stairs. They crossed an empty kitchen; and, opening the door of a low earthy-smelling room, which seemed to have been built in a small back-yard, were received with a shout of laughter.
’Oh, my wig, my wig!’ cried Master Charles Bates, from whose lungs the laughter had proceeded: ’here he is! oh, cry, here he is! Oh, Fagin, look at him! Fagin, do look at him! I can’t bear it; it is such a jolly game, I cant’ bear it. Hold me, somebody, while I laugh it out.’
With this irrepressibleebullition of mirth, Master Bates laid himself flat on the floor: and kicked convulsively for five minutes, in an ectasy of facetious joy. Then jumping to his feet, he snatched the cleft stick from the Dodger; and, advancing to Oliver, viewed him round and round; while the Jew, taking off his nightcap, made a great number of low bows to the bewildered boy. The Artful, meantime, who was of a rather saturnine disposition, and seldom gave way to merriment when it interfered with business, rifled Oliver’s pockets with steady assiduity.
’Look at his togs, Fagin!’ said Charley, putting the light so close to his new jacket as nearly to set him on fire. ’Look at his togs! Superfine cloth, and the heavy swell cut! Oh, my eye, what a game! And his books, too! Nothing but a gentleman, Fagin!’
’Delighted to see you looking so well, my dear,’ said the Jew, bowing with mock humility. ’The Artful shall give you another suit, my dear, for fear you should spoil that Sunday one. Why didn’t you write, my dear, and say you were coming? We’d have got something warm for supper.’
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“喂。那是什么?”老犹太刚一把子过那张钞票,赛克斯便上前问道,“那是我的,费金。”
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At his, Master Bates roared again: so loud, that Fagin himself relaxed, and even the Dodger smiled; but as the Artful drew forth the five-pound note at that instant, it is doubtful whether the sally of the discovery awakened his merriment.