狄更斯小说改编系列 狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第38章Part5

狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第38章Part5  

The cheery face of Mrs Richards shone with a hospitable reply
and Miss Tox
accepting the proffered chair
and grab fully recognising Mr Toodle on her way to it
untied her bon strings
and said that in the first place she must beg the dear children
one and all
to e and kiss her.
The ill-starred youngest Toodle but one
who would appear
from the frequency of his domestic troubles
to have been born under an unlucky pla
was prevented from performing his part in this general salutation by having fixed the sou'wester hat (with which he had been previously trifling) deep on his head
hind side before
and being unable to get it off again; which accident presenting to his terrified imagination a dismal picture of his passing the rest of his days in darkness
and in hopeless seclusion from his friends and family
caused him to struggle with great violence
and to utter suffocating cries. Being released
his face was discovered to be very hot
and red
and damp; and Miss Tox took him on her lap
much exhausted.
'You have almost fotten me
Sir
I daresay
' said Miss Tox to Mr Toodle.
'No
Ma'am
no
' said Toodle. 'But we've all on us got a little older since then.'
'And how do you find yourself
Sir?' inquired Miss Tox
blandly.
'Hearty
Ma'am
thank'ee
' replied Toodle. 'How do you find yourself
Ma'am? Do the rheumaticks keep off pretty well
Ma'am? We must all expect to grow into 'em
as we gets on.'
'Thank you
' said Miss Tox. 'I have not felt any inconvenience from that disorder yet.'
'You're wery fortunate
Ma'am
' returned Mr Toodle. 'Many people at your time of life
Ma'am
is martyrs to it. There was my mother - ' But catching his wife's eye here
Mr Toodle judiciously buried the rest in another mug of tea
'You never mean to say
Mrs Richards
' cried Miss Tox
looking at Rob
'that that is your - '
'Eldest
Ma'am
' said Polly. 'Yes
indeed
it is. That's the little fellow
Ma'am
that was the innocent cause of so much.'
'This here
Ma'am
' said Toodle
'is him with the short legs - and they was
' said Mr Toodle
with a touch of poetry in his tone
'unusual short for leathers - as Mr Dombey made a Grinder on.'
The recollection almost overpowered Miss Tox. The subject of it had a peculiar interest for her directly. She asked him to shake hands
and congratulated his mother on his frank
ingenuous face. Rob
overhearing her
called up a look
to justify the eulogium
but it was hardly the right look.
'And now
Mrs Richards
' said Miss Tox
- 'and you too
Sir
' addressing Toodle - 'I'll tell you
plainly and truly
what I have e here for. You may be aware
Mrs Richards - and
possibly
you may be aware too
Sir - that a little distance has interposed itself beeen me and some of my friends
and that where I used to visit a good deal
I do not visit now.'