狄更斯哪部作品好 狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第38章Part3

狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第38章Part3  

The rising Toodles set up a shrill murmur
expressive of their resolution to profit by the paternal advice.
'But what makes you say this along of Rob
father?' asked his wife
anxiously.
'Polly
old ooman
' said Mr Toodle
'I don't know as I said it partickler along o' Rob
I'm sure. I starts light with Rob only; I es to a branch; I takes on what I finds there; and a whole train of ideas gets coupled on to him
afore I knows where I am
or where they es from. What a Junction a man's thoughts is
' said Mr Toodle
'to-be-sure!'
This profound reflection Mr Toodle washed down with a pint mug of tea
and proceeded to solidify with a great weight of bread and butter; charging his young daughters meanwhile
to keep plenty of hot water in the pot
as he was unmon dry
and should take the indefinite quantity of 'a sight of mugs
' before his thirst was appeased.
In satisfying himself
however
Mr Toodle was not regardless of the younger branches about him
who
although they had made their own evening repast
were on the look-out for irregular morsels
as possessing a relish. These he distributed now and then to the expectant circle
by holding out great wedges of bread and butter
to be bitten at by the family in lawful succession
and by serving out small doses of tea in like manner with a spoon; which snacks had such a relish in the mouths of these young Toodles
that
after partaking of the same
they performed private dances of ecstasy among themselves
and stood on one leg apiece
and hopped
and indulged in other saltatory tokens of gladness. These vents for their excitement found
they gradually closed about Mr Toodle again
and eyed him hard as he got through more bread and butter and tea; affecting
however
to have no further expectations of their own in reference to those viands
but to be conversing on foreign subjects
and whispering confidentially.
Mr Toodle
in the midst of this family group
and setting an awful example to his children in the way of appetite
was conveying the o young Toodles on his knees to Birmingham by special engine
and was contemplating the rest over a barrier of bread and butter
when Rob the Grinder
in his sou'wester hat and mourning slops
presented himself
and was received with a general rush of brothers and sisters.