董贝父子中董贝的形象 狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第27章Part 08

狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第27章Part 08  

'So bluff!' cried Mrs Skewton
'wasn't he? So burly. So truly English. Such a picture
too
he makes
with his dear little peepy eyes
and his benevolent chin!'
'Ah
Ma'am!' said Carker
stopping short; 'but if you speak of pictures
there's a position! What gallery in the world can produce the counterpart of that?'
As the smiling gentleman thus spake
he pointed through a doorway to where Mr Dombey and Edith were standing alone in the centre of another room.
They were not interchanging a word or a look. Standing together
arm in arm
they had the appearance of being more divided than if seas had rolled beeen them. There was a difference even in the pride of the o
that removed them farther from each other
than if one had been the proudest and the other the humblest specimen of humanity in all creation. He
self-important
unbending
formal
austere. She
lovely and graceful
in an unmon degree
but totally regardless of herself and him and everything around
and spurning her own attractions with her haughty brow and lip
as if they were a badge or livery she hated. So unmatched were they
and opposed
so forced and linked together by a chain which adverse hazard and mischance had fed: that fancy might have imagined the pictures on the walls around them
startled by the unnatural conjunction
and observant of it in their several expressions. Grim knights and warriors looked scowling on them. A churchman
with his hand upraised
denounced the mockery of such a couple ing to God's altar. Quiet waters in landscapes
with the sun reflected in their depths
asked
if better means of escape were not at hand
was there no drowning left? Ruins cried
'Look here
and see what We are
wedded to uncongenial Time!' Animals
opposed by nature
worried one another
as a moral to them. Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid
and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.
Nevertheless
Mrs Skewton was so charmed by the sight to which Mr Carker invoked her attention
that she could not refraIn from saying
half aloud
how sweet
how very full of soul it was! Edith
overhearing
looked round
and flushed indignant scarlet to her hair.
'My dearest Edith knows I was admiring her!' said Cleopatra
tapping her
almost timidly
on the back with her parasol. 'Sweet pet!'