狄更斯的小说特点 狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第39章Part6

狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第39章Part6  

'Oh! I may go at once
may I
Captain?' cried Rob
exulting in his success. 'But mind! I never asked to go at once
Captain. You are not to take away my character again
because you send me off of your own accord. And you're not to stop any of my wages
Captain!'
His employer settled the last point by producing the tin canister and telling the Grinder's money out in full upon the table. Rob
snivelling and sobbing
and grievously wounded in his feelings
took up the pieces one by one
with a sob and a snivel for each
and tied them up separately in knots in his pockethandkerchief; then he ascended to the roof of the house and filled his hat and pockets with pigeons; then
came down to his bed under the counter and made up his bundle
snivelling and sobbing louder
as if he were cut to the heart by old associations; then he whined
'Good-night
Captain. I leave you without malice!' and then
going out upon the door-step
pulled the little Midshipman's nose as a parting indignity
and went away down the street grinning triumphantly.
The Captain
left to himself
resumed his perusal of the news as if nothing unusual or unexpected had taken place
and went reading on with the greatest assiduity. But never a word did Captain Cuttle understand
though he read a vast number
for Rob the Grinder was scampering up one column and down another all through the newspaper.
It is doubtful whether the worthy Captain had ever felt himself quite abandoned until now; but now
old Sol Gills
Walter
and Heart's Delight were lost to him indeed
and now Mr Carker deceived and jeered him cruelly. They were all represented in the false Rob
to whom he had held forth many a time on the recollections that were warm within him; he had believed in the false Rob
and had been glad to believe in him; he had made a panion of him as the last of the old ship's pany; he had taken the mand of the little Midshipman with him at his right hand; he had meant to do his duty by him
and had felt almost as kindly towards the boy as if they had been shipwrecked and cast upon a desert place together. And now
that the false Rob had brought distrust
treachery
and meanness into the very parlour
which was a kind of sacred place
Captain Cuttle felt as if the parlour might have gone down next
and not surprised him much by its sinking
or given him any very great concern.
Therefore Captain Cuttle read the newspaper with profound attention and no prehension
and therefore Captain Cuttle said nothing whatever about Rob to himself
or admitted to himself that he was thinking about him
or would recognise in the most distant manner that Rob had anything to do with his feeling as lonely as Robinson Crusoe.
In the same posed
business-like way
the Captain stepped over to Leadenhall Market in the dusk
and effected an arrangement with a private watchman on duty there
to e and put up and take down the shutters of the wooden Midshipman every night and morning. He then called in at the eating-house to diminish by one half the daily rations theretofore supplied to the Midshipman
and at the public-house to stop the traitor's beer. 'My young man
' said the Captain
in explanation to the young lady at the bar
'my young man having bettered himself
Miss.' Lastly
the Captain resolved to take possession of the bed under the counter
and to turn in there o' nights instead of upstairs
as sole guardian of the property.
From this bed Captain Cuttle daily rose thenceforth
and clapped on his glazed hat at six o'clock in the morning
with the solitary air of Crusoe finishing his toilet with his goat-skin cap; and although his fears of a visitation from the savage tribe
MacStinger
were somewhat cooled
as similar apprehensions on the part of that lone mariner used to be by the lapse of a long interval without any symptoms of the cannibals
he still observed a regular routine of defensive operations
and never encountered a bon without previous survey from his castle of retreat. In the meantime (during which he received no call from Mr Toots
who wrote to say he was out of town) his own voice began to have a strange sound in his ears; and he acquired such habits of profound meditation from much polishing and stowing away of the stock
and from much sitting behind the counter reading
or looking out of window
that the red rim made on his forehead by the hard glazed hat
sometimes ached again with excess of reflection.