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德伯家的苔丝|Tess of the D‘Urbervilles

第59章|Chapter 58

属类： 双语小说 【分类】世界名著 -[作者: 托马斯-哈代] 阅读：[31899]
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温顿塞斯特是一座美丽的古城，威塞克斯的首府；在七月的早晨，威塞克斯起伏不平的匠陵充满了光明和温暖，温顿塞斯特城就位于这片丘陵的中部。那些带有用砖砌的山墙和盖有屋瓦的石头房子，外面的一层苔藓已经因为干燥的季节差不多晒干脱落了；草场上沟渠里的水变浅了，在那条斜坡大街上，从西大门到中古十字路，从中古十字路到大桥，有人正在不慌不忙地清扫大街，通常这都是为了迎接旧式的集市日子。

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从前面提到的西大门开始，所有的温顿塞斯特人都熟悉的那条大道，向上延伸到一个长达一英里的长方形斜坡，渐渐地把那些房屋抛在后面。就在这条道路上，有两个人正在迅速从城区里走出来，仿佛并没有意识到走上坡路要费力似的——他们没有意识到费力不是因为他们心情愉快，而是因为他们心事重重。在下面那块小小的开阔高地上，建有一堵高墙，高墙中间有一道栅栏便门，他们就是从那儿出来走上这条大路的。他们似乎要急于避开挡住他们视线的那些房屋和诸如此类的建筑，而从这条大路走似乎为他们提供了一条最快的捷径。虽然他们都是年轻人，但是他们走路的时候都把头低着，太阳微笑着把光芒洒在他们悲伤的步伐上，一点儿也不可怜他们。

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那两个人中间有一个是安琪儿·克莱尔，另外一个是克莱尔的小姨子丽莎·露；她的身材颀长，像一朵正在开放的蓓蕾；一半是少女，一半是妇人，完全是苔丝的化身；她比苔丝瘦一些，但是长着同样美丽的大眼睛。他们灰白的面孔瘦了，似乎瘦得只有原来的一半大小了，他们手牵着手向前走着，一句话也不说，只是低着头走路，就像吉奥托在《两圣徒》①中画的人物一样。

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①吉奥托（Giotto，1266-1337），意大利画家，其名画《两圣徒》（Two Apostles）现藏于伦敦国家美术馆。

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当他们快要走到西山顶上的时候，城里的时钟敲响了八点。听到钟声，他们两个人都吃了一惊，但还是又往前走了几步，走到了第一块里程碑那儿；那块白色的里程碑竖在绿色草地的边上，背后是草原，跟大路连接在一起。他们走进草地，好像被某种控制了他们意志的力量逼着似的，突然在里程碑旁边站住了；他们转过身去，好像瘫痪了似的在里程碑旁等着。

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从这个山顶上望去，周围的景色一览无余。下面的谷里就是他们刚才离开的那座城市；城中最突出的建筑好像一张等角图那样显眼——在那些建筑中，有高大的大教堂的塔楼，有教堂的罗曼式窗户和漫长的走道；有圣托玛斯的尖塔，还有学院的带有尖塔的塔楼，再往右边，便是古老医院的塔楼和山墙，直到今天，来这儿朝圣的人都能获赠一份面包和麦酒。在城市的后面，是圣凯瑟琳山的圆形高地；再往远处，便是越来越远的景物，一直延伸到地平线在天上太阳的照耀下消失的地方。

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在连绵不断的乡村原野的衬托下，在那些高楼大厦的正面，有一栋用红砖盖的大楼房，楼房上盖的是水平的灰色屋顶，窗户上有一排排短铁栏杆，这表明那儿是囚禁犯人的地方；整栋楼房的样式既呆板又教条，和歌特式建筑错落有致的奇特风格形成鲜明对照。从路上经过这栋楼房，紫杉和长青的橡树多少把它遮挡住了，但是从山顶上看去却一览无余。不久前那两个人走出来的那道便门，就在那栋建筑的高墙下。在楼房的正中，有一个丑陋难看的八角形平顶塔楼矗立在东方的天空里；从山顶上看去，只能看到它背太阳的阴暗一面，让人觉得塔楼似乎是这座城市美景中的一个污点。可是那两个人所关心的正是那个污点，而不是城市的美景。

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塔楼的上楣竖着一根长旗杆。他们的眼睛就紧紧盯着它。钟声响后又过了几分钟，有一样东西缓慢地从旗杆上升起来，微风一吹，那件东西就展开了。原来是一面黑旗。

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“死刑”执行了，用埃斯库罗斯的话说，那个众神之王①对苔丝的戏弄也就结束了。德贝维尔家的骑士和夫人们在坟墓里躺着，对这件事一无所知。那两个一言不发的观看的人，把身体躬到了地上，仿佛正在祈祷，他们就那样躬着，过了好久好久，一动也不动。黑旗继续不声不响地在风中飘着。他们等到有了力气，就站起来，又手拉着手往前走。

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①众神之王（the President of th Imortals），语出于希腊悲剧家埃斯库罗斯的悲剧《被囚的普罗米修斯》。

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The night was strangely solemn and still. In the small hours she whispered to him the whole story of how he had walked in his sleep with her in his arms across the Froom stream, at the imminent risk of both their lives, and laid her down in the stone coffin at the ruined abbey. He had never known of that till now.

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`Why didn’t you tell me next day?’ he said. `It might have prevented much misunderstanding and woe.’

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`Don’t think of what’s past!’ said she. `I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what to-morrow has in store?’

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But it apparently had no sorrow. The morning was wet and foggy, and Clare, rightly informed that the caretaker only opened the windows on fine days, ventured to creep out of their chamber, and explore the house, leaving Tess asleep. There was no food on the premises, but there was water, and he took advantage of the fog to emerge from the mansion, and fetch tea, bread, and butter from a shop in a little place two miles beyond, as also a small tin kettle and spirit-lamp, that they might get fire without smoke. His re-entry awoke her; and they breakfasted on what he had brought.

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They were indisposed to stir abroad, and the day passed, and the night following, and the next, and next; till, almost without their being aware, five days had slipped by in absolute seclusion, not a sight or sound of a human being disturbing their peacefulness, such as it was. The changes of the weather were their only events, the birds of the New Forest their only company. By tacit consent they hardly once spoke of any incident of the past subsequent to their wedding-day. The gloomy intervening time seemed to sink into chaos, over which the present and prior times closed as if it never had been. Whenever he suggested that they should leave their shelter, and go forwards towards Southampton or London, she showed a strange unwillingness to move.

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`Why should we put an end to all that’s sweet and lovely!’ she deprecated. `What must come will come.’ And, looking through the shutter-chink: `All is trouble outside there; inside here content.’

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He peeped out also. It was quite true; within was affection, union, error forgiven: outside was the inexorable.

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`And - and,’ she said, pressing her cheek against his; `I fear that what you think of me now may not last. I do not wish to outlive your present feeling for me. I would rather not. I would rather be dead and buried when the time comes for you to despise me, so that it may never be known to me that you despised me.’

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`I cannot ever despise you.’

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`I also hope that. But considering what my life has been I cannot see why any man should, sooner or later, be able to help despising me... .How wickedly mad I was! Yet formerly I never could bear to hurt a fly or a worm, and the sight of a bird in a cage used often to make me cry.’

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They remained yet another day. In the night the dull sky cleared, and the result was that the old caretaker at the cottage awoke early. The brilliant sunrise made her unusually brisk; she decided to open the contiguous mansion immediately, and to air it thoroughly on such a day. Thus it occurred that, having arrived and opened the lower rooms before six o’clock, she ascended to the bedchambers, and was about to turn the handle of the one wherein they lay. At that moment she fancied she could hear the breathing of persons within. Her slippers and her antiquity had rendered her progress a noiseless one so far, and she made for instant retreat; then, deeming that her hearing might have deceived her, she turned around, to the door and softly tried the handle. The lock was out of order, but a piece of furniture had been moved forward on the inside, which prevented her opening the door more than an inch or two. A stream of morning light through the shutter-chink fell upon the faces of the pair, wrapped in profound slumber, Tess’s lips being parted like a half-opened flower near his cheek. The caretaker was so struck with their innocent appearance, and with the elegance of Tess’s gown hanging across a chair, her silk stockings beside it, the pretty parasol, and the other habits in which she bad arrived because she had none else, that her first indignation at the effrontery of tramps and vagabonds gave way to a momentary sentimentality over this genteel elopement, as it seemed. She closed the door, and withdrew as softly as she had come, to go and consult with her neighbours on the odd discovery.

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Not more than a minute had elapsed after her withdrawal when Tess woke, and then Clare. Both had a sense that something had disturbed them, though they could not say what; and the uneasy feeling which it engendered grew stronger. As soon as he was dressed he narrowly scanned the lawn through the two or three inches of shutter-chink.

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`I think we will leave at once,’ said he. `It is a fine day. And I cannot help fancying somebody is about the house. At any rate, the woman will be sure to come to-day.’

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She passively assented, and putting the room in order they took up the few articles that belongef to them, and departed noiselessly. When they had got into the Forest she turned to take a last look at the house.

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`Ah, happy house - good-bye!’ she said. `My life can only be a question of a few weeks. Why should we not have stayed there?’

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`Don’t say it, Tess! We shall soon get out of this district altogether. We’ll continue our course as we’ve begun it, and keep straight north. Nobody will think of looking for us there. We shall be looked for at the Wessex ports if we are sought at all. When we are in the north we will get to a port and away.’

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Having thus persuaded her the plan was pursued, and they kept a bee line northward. Their long repose at the manor-house lent them walking power now; and towards mid-day they found that they were approaching the steepled city of Melchester, which lay directly in their way. He decided to rest her in a clump of trees during the afternoon, and push onward under cover of darkness. At dusk Clare purchased food as usual, and their night march began, the boundary between Upper and Mid-Wessex being crossed about eight o’clock.

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To walk across country without much regard to roads was not new to Tess, and she showed her old agility in the performance. The intercepting city, ancient Melchester, they were obliged to pass through in order to take advantage of the town bridge for crossing a large river that obstructed them. It was about midnight when they went along the deserted streets, lighted fitfully by the few lamps, keeping off the pavement that it might not echo their footsteps. The graceful pile of cathedral architecture rose dimly on their left hand, but it was lost upon them now. Once out of the town they followed the turnpike-road, which after a few miles plunged across an open plain.

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Though the sky was dense with cloud a diffused light from some fragment of a moon had hitherto helped them a little. But the moon had now sunk, the clouds seemed to settle almost on their heads, and the night grew as dark as a cave. However, they found their way along, keeping as much on the turf as possible that their tread might not resound, which it was easy to do, there being no hedge or fence of any kind. All around was open loneliness and black solitude, over which a stiff breeze blew.

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They had proceeded thus gropingly two or three miles further when on a sudden Clare became conscious of some vast erection close in his front, rising sheer from the grass. They had almost struck themselves against it.

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`What monstrous place is this?’ said Angel.

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`It hums,’ said she. `Hearken!’

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He listened. The wind, playing upon the edifice, produced a booming tune, like the note of some gigantic one-stringed harp. No other sound came from it, and lifting his hand and advancing a step or two, Clare felt the vertical surface of the structure. It seemed to be of solid stone, without joint or moulding. Carrying his fingers onward he found that what he had come in contact with was a colossal rectangular pillar; by stretching out his left hand he could feel a similar one adjoining. At an indefinite height overhead something made the black sky blacker, which had the semblance of a vast architrave uniting the pillars horizontally. They carefully entered beneath and between; the surfaces echoed their soft rustle; but they seemed to be still out of doors. The place was roofless. Tess drew her breath fearfully, and Angel, perplexed, said--

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`What can it be?’

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Feeling sideways they encountered another tower-like pillar, square and uncompromising as the first; beyond it another and another. The place was all doors and pillars, some connected above by continuous architraves.

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`A very Temple of the Winds,’ he said.

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The next pillar was isolated; others composed a trilithon; others were prostrate, their flanks forming a causeway wide enough for a carriage; and it was soon obvious that they made up a forest of monoliths grouped upon the grassy expanse of the plain. The couple advanced further into this pavilion of the night till they stood in its midst.

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`It is Stonehenge!’ said Clare.

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`The heathen temple, you mean?’

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`Yes. Older than the centuries; older than the d’Urbervilles! Well, what shall we do, darling? We may find shelter further on.’ But Tess, really tired by this time, flung herself upon an oblong slab that lay close at hand, and was sheltered from the wind by a pillar. Owing to the action of the sun during the preceding day the stone was warm and dry, in comforting contrast to the rough and chill grass around, which had damped her skirts and shoes.

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`I don’t want to go any further, Angel,’ she said stretching out her hand for his. `Can’t we bide here?’

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`I fear not. This spot is visible for miles by day, although it does not seem so now.’

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`One of my mother’s people was a shepherd hereabouts, now I think of it. And you used to say at Talbothays that I was a heathen. So now I am at home.’

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He knelt down beside her outstretched form, and put his lips upon hers.

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`Sleepy are you, dear? I think you are lying on an altar.’

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`I like very much to be here,’ she murmured. `It is so solemn and lonely - after my great happiness - with nothing but the sky above my face. It seems as if there were no folk in the world but we two; and I wish there were not - except ’Liza-Lu.’

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Clare thought she might as well rest here till it should get a little lighter, and he flung his overcoat upon her, and sat down by her side.

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`Angel, if anything happens to me, will you watch over ’Liza-Lu for my sake?’ she asked, when they had listened a long time to the wind among the pillars.

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`I will.’

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`She is so good and simple and pure. O, Angel - I wish you would marry her if you lose me, as you will do shortly. O, if you would!’

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`Did they sacrifice to God here?’ asked she.

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