狄更斯的小说特点 狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第41章Part2

狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第41章Part2  

Oh! Well may Di lay his loving cheek against her hand
and run off
and run back
and run round her
barking
and run headlong at anybody ing by
to show his devotion. Mr Toots would run headlong at anybody
too. A military gentleman goes past
and Mr Toots would like nothing better than to run at him
full tilt.
'Diogenes is quite in his native air
isn't he
Miss Dombey?' says Mr Toots.
Florence assents
with a grateful smile.
'Miss Dombey
' says Mr Toots
'beg your pardon
but if you would like to walk to Blimber's
I - I'm going there.'
Florence puts her arm in that of Mr Toots without a word
and they walk away together
with Diogenes going on before. Mr Toots's legs shake under him; and though he is splendidly dressed
he feels misfits
and sees wrinkles
in the masterpieces of Burgess and Co.
and wishes he had put on that brightest pair of boots.
Doctor Blimber's house
outside
has as scholastic and studious an air as ever; and up there is the window where she used to look for the pale face
and where the pale face brightened when it saw her
and the wasted little hand waved kisses as she passed. The door is opened by the same weak-eyed young man
whose imbecility of grin at sight of Mr Toots is feebleness of character personified. They are shown into the Doctor's study
where blind Homer and Minerva give them audience as of yore
to the sober ticking of the great clock in the hall; and where the globes stand still in their accustomed places
as if the world were stationary too
and nothing in it ever perished in obedience to the universal law
that
while it keeps it on the roll
calls everything to earth.
And here is Doctor Blimber
with his learned legs; and here is Mrs Blimber
with her sky-blue cap; and here Cornelia
with her sandy little row of curls
and her bright spectacles
still working like a sexton in the graves of languages. Here is the table upon which he sat forlorn and strange
the 'new boy' of the school; and hither es the distant cooing of the old boys
at their old lives in the old room on the old principle!
'Toots
' says Doctor Blimber
'I am very glad to see you
Toots.'
Mr Toots chuckles in reply.