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汤姆叔叔的小屋|Uncle Tom’s Cabin

第03章　丈夫和父亲|CHAPTER III The Husband and Father

属类： 双语小说 【分类】双语小说 -[作者: 比彻·斯托夫人] 阅读：[4836]
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希尔比太太出门拜访朋友去了。望着渐渐远去的马车，艾莉查无精打采地站在门廊上。这时，有人从后面走来，把手搭在了她的肩膀上。她转回身，两眼顿时发出多彩的光辉，美丽的笑容浮现于脸上。

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Mrs. Shelby had gone on her visit, and Eliza stood in the verandah, rather dejectedly looking after the retreating carriage, when a hand was laid on her shoulder. She turned, and a bright smile lighted up her fine eyes.

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“真是你吗？乔治，你把我吓了一跳。我真是太高兴了！太太出门拜访朋友去了，晚上前不会回来。我们快到我那个小房间吧，我们可以有一段愉快的时光。”

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"George, is it you? How you frightened me! Well; I am so glad you 's come! Missis is gone to spend the afternoon; so come into my little room, and we'll have the time all to ourselves."

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她拉着乔治走进门廊对面那间小房间，平时，她总在那儿做针线活，这样她可以听见女主人的呼唤。

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Saying this, she drew him into a neat little apartment opening on the verandah, where she generally sat at her sewing, within call of her mistress.

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“你能来我真高兴，快来看一看我们的孩子，乔治，你为什么不高兴呢？”孩子紧抓住母亲的长裙羞涩地站在那儿，从卷发下偷偷地看着父亲。“你看他多么漂亮，不是吗？”艾莉查拨弄着孩子头上的卷发，吻了他一下说。

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"How glad I am!—why don't you smile?—and look at Harry—how he grows." The boy stood shyly regarding his father through his curls, holding close to the skirts of his mother's dress. "Isn't he beautiful?" said Eliza, lifting his long curls and kissing him.

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“我只希望自己没有出世，也没有生下这个孩子。”乔治惨然说道。

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"I wish he'd never been born!" said George, bitterly. "I wish I'd never been born myself!"

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听完这句话，艾莉查既惊讶又恐惧。她哭着把头靠在丈夫宽阔的肩膀上。

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Surprised and frightened, Eliza sat down, leaned her head on her husband's shoulder, and burst into tears.

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“艾莉查，你真是太可怜了，我真不敢让你再伤心。”乔治爱怜地说，“如果当时你没有认识我，那你就不会这样不幸了。”

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"There now, Eliza, it's too bad for me to make you feel so, poor girl!" said he, fondly; "it's too bad: O, how I wish you never had seen me—you might have been happy!"

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“哟，乔治，你这是说什么话呢？是不是发生了什么可怕的事，还是要有什么可怕的事要发生？从我们相识到现在，我们不是活得挺幸福吗？”

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"George! George! how can you talk so? What dreadful thing has happened, or is going to happen? I'm sure we've been very happy, till lately."

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“亲爱的，确实很幸福。”乔治把自己的孩子抱到膝上，看着孩子那明亮的双眸，抚弄着他那柔软的卷发。

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"So we have, dear," said George. Then drawing his child on his knee, he gazed intently on his glorious dark eyes, and passed his hands through his long curls.

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“艾莉查，你是我所见的女人中最漂亮的，也是最好的，你看，我们的孩子长得多么像你。但是当时我们如果没有见面就好了。”

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"Just like you, Eliza; and you are the handsomest woman I ever saw, and the best one I ever wish to see; but, oh, I wish I'd never seen you, nor you me!"

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“乔治，你为什么还要这样说呢？”

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"O, George, how can you!"

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“事实是这样的，我们除了痛苦以外，还拥有什么呢！我这辈子是那样的苦，就像黄连一样。我的生气已经被煎熬殆尽。现在我干的是苦命的活，我是那样穷，不会有什么前途的。你跟着我不会有什么好报，我只会带给你霉运。我们一直在努力做事，学东西，想做个有用的人，但这有什么用呢？这样活着有什么意思，真不如死了算了。”

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"Yes, Eliza, it's all misery, misery, misery! My life is bitter as wormwood; the very life is burning out of me. I'm a poor, miserable, forlorn drudge; I shall only drag you down with me, that's all. What's the use of our trying to do anything, trying to know anything, trying to be anything? What's the use of living? I wish I was dead!"

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“乔治，你这样说真是罪过，我知道你不能在工厂工作，所以心里难受，你又遇到一个狠心的主人，但你还是要忍耐，说不定以后会有什么……”

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"O, now, dear George, that is really wicked! I know how you feel about losing your place in the factory, and you have a hard master; but pray be patient, and perhaps something—"

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“忍耐，难道我还不够忍耐吗？”他打断她说道，“自从他无缘无故把我从那个待我好的人的工厂带回以后，我说过什么吗？说实话，我把自己挣的钱全都上交给他了。那个工厂的人，哪一个不夸我的活做得好呢！”

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"Patient!" said he, interrupting her; "haven't I been patient? Did I say a word when he came and took me away, for no earthly reason, from the place where everybody was kind to me? I'd paid him truly every cent of my earnings,—and they all say I worked well."

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“真是太可怕了，但他终究是你的主人啊。”艾莉查说。

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"Well, it is dreadful," said Eliza; "but, after all, he is your master, you know."

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“谁赋予他这种权力让他做我的主人？我不时地考虑着这个问题。他是人，我也是人，他凭什么要骑在我的头上，况且他还不如我。无论是经商还是管理庄园，我都比他行，我比他认识的字多，书写也比他漂亮，而所有这些我都不欠他什么，因为我是自学的。尽管他对我是那样的残忍，但我还是学会了这些本领。他存心不把人当人看待，他凭什么让我为他做牛做马？他凭什么不让我充分发挥我所学到的本领，为什么他不能容忍我干得比他好呢？他故意把最脏、最重、最下等的活派给我去做，因为他想借此凌辱我，他说他要让我屈服。”

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"My master! and who made him my master? That's what I think of—what right has he to me? I'm a man as much as he is. I'm a better man than he is. I know more about business than he does; I am a better manager than he is; I can read better than he can; I can write a better hand,—and I've learned it all myself, and no thanks to him,—I've learned it in spite of him; and now what right has he to make a dray-horse of me?—to take me from things I can do, and do better than he can, and put me to work that any horse can do? He tries to do it; he says he'll bring me down and humble me, and he puts me to just the hardest, meanest and dirtiest work, on purpose!"

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“啊，我以前从没听你说过这样的话，乔治，你吓着我了，我知道你很愤-，这我理解，但为了我和哈里，你千万不要做可怕的事情。不管你做什么事，一定要三思而后行啊！”

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"O, George! George! you frighten me! Why, I never heard you talk so; I'm afraid you'll do something dreadful. I don't wonder at your feelings, at all; but oh, do be careful—do, do—for my sake—for Harry's!"

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“我一直是三思而后行的，我一直忍耐着，但现在看来情况越来越糟。我的身体已经快难以承受了。他不会放过任何一个侮辱、折磨我的机会。我只想在干好活的同时读书，静下来学点东西，但他加在我身上的重担会随我的能力的增加而加重。他说我被鬼魂附体了，他要把它抓出来。除非我讲错了，否则他不喜欢的事情迟早会发生。”

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"I have been careful, and I have been patient, but it's growing worse and worse; flesh and blood can't bear it any longer;—every chance he can get to insult and torment me, he takes. I thought I could do my work well, and keep on quiet, and have some time to read and learn out of work hours; but the more he sees I can do, the more he loads on. He says that though I don't say anything, he sees I've got the devil in me, and he means to bring it out; and one of these days it will come out in a way that he won't like, or I'm mistaken!"

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“那我们该怎么办呢？亲爱的。”艾莉查悲伤地问。

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"O dear! what shall we do?" said Eliza, mournfully.

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“昨天，当我往车上装石头时，站在车旁边的小主人用鞭子使劲地抽打着，这使得那匹马受到了惊吓。我温和地劝他不要抽了，但他却不听我的话。我再次求他，他却转回身用鞭子抽打我。我抓住了他的手，他就大声喊叫起来，先是用脚踢我，然后就跑去告诉他父亲我打了他。主人听了非常生气，声称要教训我一顿，让我明白他是主人。他把我绑在树上，用柳条狠劲抽了我几下，而他的儿子也按照父亲的吩咐使劲抽打我，直到他感到累了时为止。我一定要出这口气的，否则我誓不为人。”他脸色非常阴沉，两眼中那愤怒的火焰着实吓了他的妻子一跳。“我只想搞明白是谁赋予他做主人的权利的。”

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"It was only yesterday," said George, "as I was busy loading stones into a cart, that young Mas'r Tom stood there, slashing his whip so near the horse that the creature was frightened. I asked him to stop, as pleasant as I could,—he just kept right on. I begged him again, and then he turned on me, and began striking me. I held his hand, and then he screamed and kicked and ran to his father, and told him that I was fighting him. He came in a rage, and said he'd teach me who was my master; and he tied me to a tree, and cut switches for young master, and told him that he might whip me till he was tired;—and he did do it! If I don't make him remember it, some time!" and the brow of the young man grew dark, and his eyes burned with an expression that made his young wife tremble. "Who made this man my master? That's what I want to know!" he said.

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“我想我要服从我的主人的安排，”艾莉查惨然说道，“否则，我就不能算是真正的基督徒。”

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"Well," said Eliza, mournfully, "I always thought that I must obey my master and mistress, or I couldn't be a Christian."

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“这话对你来说当然有一定的道理。他们给你吃的穿的，就像对待自己的孩子一样，他们疼爱你，给了你良好的教育，他们认为你是他们家庭的一部分。但我的主人呢？他常对我拳脚相加；让我呆在一边不理睬我，这已是我能得到的最好的待遇了。他们收留了我，但我也为此付出了超过百倍的代价。难道我还欠他们什么吗？我现在已经是不能再忍耐下去了。是的，不能再忍受了。”乔治握紧双拳，瞪着眼睛说道。

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"There is some sense in it, in your case; they have brought you up like a child, fed you, clothed you, indulged you, and taught you, so that you have a good education; that is some reason why they should claim you. But I have been kicked and cuffed and sworn at, and at the best only let alone; and what do I owe? I've paid for all my keeping a hundred times over. I won't bear it. No, I won't!" he said, clenching his hand with a fierce frown.

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艾莉查没有说话，全身颤抖，她从未见丈夫这样愤怒。面对丈夫的愤怒，她的伦理观念顿时显得那样的苍白无力。

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Eliza trembled, and was silent. She had never seen her husband in this mood before; and her gentle system of ethics seemed to bend like a reed in the surges of such passions.

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“你还记得卡洛吗？就是你送给我的那只小狗。”乔治接着说，“晚上，它和我一起睡，白天跟在我的后面跑，它是我唯一的安慰，它看着我时的眼神，就像它懂得我内心的痛苦与欢乐似的。有一天，主人碰见我拿门旁的剩饭喂卡洛，他就责怪我用他的东西喂狗，并说如果每个黑奴都养狗，他就会破产的，于是他逼我在卡洛的脖子上挂上石头扔到水塘中去。”

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"You know poor little Carlo, that you gave me," added George; "the creature has been about all the comfort that I've had. He has slept with me nights, and followed me around days, and kind o' looked at me as if he understood how I felt. Well, the other day I was just feeding him with a few old scraps I picked up by the kitchen door, and Mas'r came along, and said I was feeding him up at his expense, and that he couldn't afford to have every nigger keeping his dog, and ordered me to tie a stone to his neck and throw him in the pond."

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“乔治，你扔了吗？”

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"O, George, you didn't do it!"

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“我没有那样做，但主人把它扔进去了。而且他还伙同汤姆向濒死的小狗扔石头。卡洛，它是那样的可怜，它的眼中满是悲伤的神色，好像奇怪于我为什么不帮助它。为此，我还被主人抽了一顿鞭子，但我不在乎。我迟早会让主人明白鞭子是驯服不了我的。迟早有一天，我会让他为此付出代价的，他就等着瞧吧。”

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"Do it? not I!—but he did. Mas'r and Tom pelted the poor drowning creature with stones. Poor thing! he looked at me so mournful, as if he wondered why I didn't save him. I had to take a flogging because I wouldn't do it myself. I don't care. Mas'r will find out that I'm one that whipping won't tame. My day will come yet, if he don't look out."

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“啊，乔治，那你打算做什么呢？千万别做坏事啊。只要我们对上帝虔诚，多做善事，上帝会帮助我们的。”

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"What are you going to do? O, George, don't do anything wicked; if you only trust in God, and try to do right, he'll deliver you."

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“艾莉查，我和你是两种人，我不信仰上帝，因为我心中充满了痛苦，上帝为什么要把事情搞成这样呢？”

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"I an't a Christian like you, Eliza; my heart's full of bitterness; I can't trust in God. Why does he let things be so?"

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“乔治，我们一定要相信上帝。太太常说，当我们无路可走时，上帝也正在想办法解救我们。”

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"O, George, we must have faith. Mistress says that when all things go wrong to us, we must believe that God is doing the very best."

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“这些话让那些乘车、坐沙发的人说当然很容易，但如果他们处于我的地位，我想他们也不会想得那么简单了。我也向往做些善事，但我胸中的怒火现在难以平息。如果你是我，你也会受不了的，你不了解事情的真相，如果我告诉你我所受的罪，你会受不了的。”

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"That's easy to say for people that are sitting on their sofas and riding in their carriages; but let 'em be where I am, I guess it would come some harder. I wish I could be good; but my heart burns, and can't be reconciled, anyhow. You couldn't in my place,—you can't now, if I tell you all I've got to say. You don't know the whole yet."

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“还有其它事情吗？”

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"What can be coming now?"

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“噢，最近主人一直说自己很傻，因为他让我在那么远的地方娶妻生子。他还说希尔比先生和他的家族非常傲慢，在他面前趾高气扬，他恨死他们了，而我现在也变得傲慢了。他还说要禁止我再来找你，让我在他的庄园娶妻生子。以前他还只是说说，但昨天他却明白地告诉我，我必须娶密娜，跟她一起生活，否则就要卖我到河那边去。”

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"Well, lately Mas'r has been saying that he was a fool to let me marry off the place; that he hates Mr. Shelby and all his tribe, because they are proud, and hold their heads up above him, and that I've got proud notions from you; and he says he won't let me come here any more, and that I shall take a wife and settle down on his place. At first he only scolded and grumbled these things; but yesterday he told me that I should take Mina for a wife, and settle down in a cabin with her, or he would sell me down river."

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“我们不是结婚了吗？我们不是也像白人一样由牧师证婚了吗？”艾莉查天真地问道。

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"Why—but you were married to me, by the minister, as much as if you'd been a white man!" said Eliza, simply.

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“难道你不知道奴隶是不允许结婚的吗？这个国家的法律不允许奴隶结婚，如果他们决心分开我们，我是没办法留下你的。所以我才会说如果我没有出生，没有遇到你就好了，如果可怜的哈里没有出世，那该多好啊，那样的话这一切不幸就不会降临到他头上了。”

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"Don't you know a slave can't be married? There is no law in this country for that; I can't hold you for my wife, if he chooses to part us. That's why I wish I'd never seen you,—why I wish I'd never been born; it would have been better for us both,—it would have been better for this poor child if he had never been born. All this may happen to him yet!"

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“我的主人可是心肠很好的。”

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"O, but master is so kind!"

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“但谁能料到以后会发生什么事呢？主人会死的，那时我们的哈里可能会被卖给别人，谁知道买他的是什么人呢！他是那样聪明漂亮，但这有什么值得自豪的呢？艾莉查，孩子越是机灵得讨人喜欢，那你的痛苦就会越深，你会因为他太值钱而失去他的。”

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"Yes, but who knows?—he may die—and then he may be sold to nobody knows who. What pleasure is it that he is handsome, and smart, and bright? I tell you, Eliza, that a sword will pierce through your soul for every good and pleasant thing your child is or has; it will make him worth too much for you to keep."

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丈夫的话沉重地打在她的心头，那个奴隶贩子的身影好像又来到了她的面前。她面色苍白，呼吸变得急促起来，好像受到了一记猛击似的，神色非常紧张，并不时朝门廊外看去。孩子正骑着希尔比先生的手杖愉快地玩着，后来因为不想听父母谈论没有吸引力的话题而到别处去玩了。艾莉查本想告诉丈夫自己心中所担心的事，但最后还是忍住了。

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The words smote heavily on Eliza's heart; the vision of the trader came before her eyes, and, as if some one had struck her a deadly blow, she turned pale and gasped for breath. She looked nervously out on the verandah, where the boy, tired of the grave conversation, had retired, and where he was riding triumphantly up and down on Mr. Shelby's walking-stick. She would have spoken to tell her husband her fears, but checked herself.

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“不能再让他担心了，可怜的他已经承担了太多的重担，”她想，“再说那不一定会真的发生，我相信女主人是不会欺骗我的。”

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"No, no,—he has enough to bear, poor fellow!" she thought. "No, I won't tell him; besides, it an't true; Missis never deceives us."

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“亲爱的艾莉查，就这样吧，你一定要坚持，我走了，再见。”丈夫的声音是那样的凄惨。

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"So, Eliza, my girl," said the husband, mournfully, "bear up, now; and good-by, for I'm going."

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“乔治，你要走到哪儿去？”

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"Going, George! Going where?"

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“加拿大，”他回答道，接着他又挺直身子说，“在那边，我会想法赎回你们的。这是我们所拥有的唯一希望。你的主人心肠好，我想他会允许我把你和孩子都买走的。我会做到的，愿上帝保佑。”

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"To Canada," said he, straightening himself up; "and when I'm there, I'll buy you; that's all the hope that's left us. You have a kind master, that won't refuse to sell you. I'll buy you and the boy;—God helping me, I will!"

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“你如果被抓住怎么办？那太可怕了。”

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"O, dreadful! if you should be taken?"

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“不会发生这种事的，艾莉查。如果得不到自由，我宁可死，也不会让他们把我抓回去的。”

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"I won't be taken, Eliza; I'll die first! I'll be free, or I'll die!"

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“你可不要做傻事啊！”

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"You won't kill yourself!"

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“我没必要做傻事，他们会很快杀死我的，但他们要想让我活着过河去，那是绝对不可能的。”

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"No need of that. They will kill me, fast enough; they never will get me down the river alive!"

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“乔治，你要当心。为了我别做坏事，也别做傻事，也不要杀死人。这真是太诱惑人了，但千万不要——你是要走的，但要小心行事，愿上帝保佑你。”

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"O, George, for my sake, do be careful! Don't do anything wicked; don't lay hands on yourself, or anybody else! You are tempted too much—too much; but don't—go you must—but go carefully, prudently; pray God to help you."

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“好吧，艾莉查，你听一听我的计划。主人突然决定派我送给居住于一英里外的西门斯先生一封信。我想他知道我会到这儿来告诉你这件事的。他会非常高兴我这样做，因为这会激怒希尔比先生——他一直这样称呼他。我要赶回庄园，好像什么也没有发生，一切听其自然。我已经做了些准备，大约一周以后的某一天，我会出现在失踪名单中。所以，艾莉查，为我祷告吧，或许你的祷告会被上帝听到。”

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"Well, then, Eliza, hear my plan. Mas'r took it into his head to send me right by here, with a note to Mr. Symmes, that lives a mile past. I believe he expected I should come here to tell you what I have. It would please him, if he thought it would aggravate 'Shelby's folks,' as he calls 'em. I'm going home quite resigned, you understand, as if all was over. I've got some preparations made,—and there are those that will help me; and, in the course of a week or so, I shall be among the missing, some day. Pray for me, Eliza; perhaps the good Lord will hearyou."

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“噢，乔治，请相信上帝吧，为自己祈祷，这样你就不会做坏事了。”

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"O, pray yourself, George, and go trusting in him; then you won't do anything wicked."

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“好的，再见吧。”乔治说。他紧握着艾莉查的双手，深情地注视着她的双眸，但他却没有动。他们只是静静地站着，然后悄然话别，他们哭泣着，痛哭着。他们是那样的舍不得分离，就像蛛网一样难以割断。这一对小夫妻就这样分别了——

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"Well, now, good-by," said George, holding Eliza's hands, and gazing into her eyes, without moving. They stood silent; then there were last words, and sobs, and bitter weeping,—such parting as those may make whose hope to meet again is as the spider's web,—and the husband and wife were parted.

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