狄更斯的小说特点 狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第26章Part 12

狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第26章Part 12  

'Carker plays at all games
I believe
' said Mr Dombey
laying himself on a sofa like a man of wood
without a hinge or a joint in him; 'and plays them well.'
In sooth
he plaYed the o in question
to such perfection
that the Major was astonished
and asked him
at random
if he played chess.
'Yes
I play chess a little
' answered Carker. 'I have sometimes played
and won a game - it's a mere trick - without seeing the board.'
'By Gad
Sir!' said the Major
staring
'you are a contrast to Dombey
who plays nothing.'
'Oh! He!' returned the Manager. 'He has never had occasion to acquire such little arts. To men like me
they are sometimes useful. As at present
Major Bagstock
when they enable me to take a hand with you.'
It might be only the false mouth
so smooth and wide; and yet there seemed to lurk beneath the humility and subserviency of this short speech
a something like a snarl; and
for a moment
one might have thought that the white teeth were prone to bite the hand they fawned upon. But the Major thought nothing about it; and Mr Dombey lay meditating with his eyes half shut
during the whole of the play
which lasted until bed-time.
By that time
Mr Carker
though the winner
had mounted high into the Major's good opinion
insomuch that when he left the Major at his own room before going to bed
the Major as a special attention
sent the Native - who always rested on a mattress spread upon the ground at his master's door - along the gallery
to light him to his room in state.
There was a faint blur on the surface of the mirror in Mr Carker's chamber
and its reflection was
perhaps
a false one. But it showed
that night
the image of a man
who saw
in his fancy
a crowd of people slumbering on the ground at his feet
like the poor Native at his master's door: who picked his way among them: looking down
maliciously enough: but trod upon no upturned face - as yet.