狄更斯小说改编系列 狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第42章Part1

狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第42章Part1  

Attired no more in Captain Cuttle's sable slops and sou'-wester hat
but dressed in a substantial suit of brown livery
which
while it affected to be a very sober and demure livery indeed
was really as self-satisfied and confident a one as tailor need desire to make
Rob the Grinder
thus transformed as to his outer man
and all regardless within of the Captain and the Midshipman
except when he devoted a few minutes of his leisure time to crowing over those inseparable worthies
and recalling
with much applauding music from that brazen instrument
his conscience
the triumphant manner in which he had disembarrassed himself of their pany
now served his patron
Mr Carker. Inmate of Mr Carker's house
and serving about his person
Rob kept his round eyes on the white teeth with fear and trembling
and felt that he had need to open them wider than ever.
He could not have quaked more
through his whole being
before the teeth
though he had e into the service of some powerful enchanter
and they had been his strongest spells. The boy had a sense of power and authority in this patron of his that engrossed his whole attention and exacted his most implicit submission and obedience. He hardly considered himself safe in thinking about him when he was absent
lest he should feel himself immediately taken by the throat again
as on the morning when he first became bound to him
and should see every one of the teeth finding him out
and taxing him with every fancy of his mind. Face to face with him
Rob had no more doubt that Mr Carker read his secret thoughts
or that he could read them by the least exertion of his will if he were so inclined
than he had that Mr Carker saw him when he looked at him. The ascendancy was so plete
and held him in such enthralment
that
hardly daring to think at all
but with his mind filled with a constantly dilating impression of his patron's irresistible mand over him
and power of doing anything with him
he would stand watching his pleasure
and trying to anticipate his orders
in a state of mental suspension
as to all other things.
Rob had not informed himself perhaps - in his then state of mind it would have been an act of no mon temerity to inquire - whether he yielded so pletely to this influence in any part
because he had floating suspicions of his patron's being a master of certain treacherous arts in which he had himself been a poor scholar at the Grinders' School. But certainly Rob admired him
as well as feared him. Mr Carker
perhaps
was better acquainted with the sources of his power
which lost nothing by his management of it.
On the very night when he left the Captain's service
Rob
after disposing of his pigeons
and even making a bad bargain in his hurry
had gone straight down to Mr Carker's house
and hotly presented himself before his new master with a glowing face that seemed to expect mendation.
'What
scapegrace!' said Mr Carker
glancing at his bundle 'Have you left your situation and e to me?'