狄更斯的小说特点 狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第34章Part4

狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第34章Part4  

Again the old woman looked round the room
and at her visitor
and round the room once more. Hastily seizing the candle
and rising from her seat
she held it to the visitor's face
uttered a loud cry
set down the light
and fell upon her neck!
'It's my gal! It's my Alice! It's my handsome daughter
living and e back!' screamed the old woman
rocking herself to and fro upon the breast that coldly suffered her embrace. 'It's my gal! It's my Alice! It's my handsome daughter
living and e back!' she screamed again
dropping on the floor before her
clasping her knees
laying her head against them
and still rocking herself to and fro with every frantic demonstration of which her vitality was capable.
'Yes
mother
' returned Alice
stooping forward for a moment and kissing her
but endeavouring
even in the act
to disengage herself from her embrace. 'I am here
at last. Let go
mother; let go. Get up
and sit in your chair. What good does this do?'
'She's e back harder than she went!' cried the mother
looking up in her face
and still holding to her knees. 'She don't care for me! after all these years
and all the wretched life I've led!'
'Why> mother!' said Alice
shaking her ragged skirts to detach the old woman from them: 'there are o sides to that. There have been years for me as well as you
and there has been wretchedness for me as well as you. Get up
get up!'
Her mother rose
and cried
and wrung her hands
and stood at a little distance gazing on her. Then she took the candle again
and going round her
surveyed her from head to foot
making a low moaning all the time. Then she put the candle down
resumed her chair
and beating her hands together to a kind of weary tune
and rolling herself from side to side
continued moaning and wailing to herself.
Alice got up
took off her wet cloak
and laid it aside. That done
she sat down as before
and with her arms folded
and her eyes gazing at the fire
remained silently listening with a contemptuous face to her old mother's inarticulate plainings.
'Did you expect to see me return as youthful as I went away
mother?' she said at length
turning her eyes upon the old woman. 'Did you think a foreign life
like mine
was good for good looks? One would believe so
to hear you!'
'It ain't that!' cried the mother. 'She knows it!'