狄更斯的小说特点 狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第31章Part 11

狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第31章Part 11  

'Therefore
' says Cousin Feenix
'I congratulate the family of which I am a member
on the acquisition of my friend Dombey. I congratulate my friend Dombey on his union with my lovely and acplished relative who possesses every requisite to make a man happy; and I take the liberty of calling on you all
in point of fact
to congratulate both my friend Dombey and my lovely and acplished relative
on the present occasion.'
The speech of Cousin Feenix is received with great applause
and Mr Dombey returns thanks on behalf of himself and Mrs Dombey. J. B. shortly afterwards proposes Mrs Skewton. The breakfast languishes when that is done
the violated hatchments are avenged
and Edith rises to assume her travelling dress.
All the servants in the meantime
have been breakfasting below. Champagne has grown too mon among them to be mentioned
and roast fowls
raised pies
and lobster-salad
have bee mere drugs. The very tall young man has recovered his spirits
and again alludes to the exciseman. His rade's eye begins to emulate his own
and he
too
stares at objects without taking cognizance thereof. There is a general redness in the faces of the ladies; in the face of Mrs Perch particularly
who is joyous and beaming
and lifted so far above the cares of life
that if she were asked just now to direct a wayfarer to Ball's Pond
where her own cares lodge
she would have some difficulty in recalling the way. Mr Towlinson has proposed the happy pair; to which the silver-headed butler has responded neatly
and with emotion; for he half begins to think he is an old retainer of the family
and that he is bound to be affected by these changes. The whole party
and especially the ladies
are very frolicsome. Mr Dombey's cook
who generally takes the lead in society
has said
it is impossible to settle down after this
and why not go
in a party
to the play? Everybody (Mrs Perch included) has agreed to this; even the Native
who is tigerish in his drink
and who alarms the ladies (Mrs Perch particularly) by the rolling of his eyes. One of the very tall young men has even proposed a ball after the play
and it presents itself to no one (Mrs Perch included) in the light of an impossibility. Words have arisen beeen the housemaid and Mr Towlinson; she
on the authority of an old saw
asserting marriages to be made in Heaven: he
affecting to trace the manufacture elsewhere; he
supposing that she says so
because she thinks of being married her own self: she
saying
Lord forbid
at any rate
that she should ever marry him. To calm these flying taunts
the silver-headed butler rises to propose the health of Mr Towlinson
whom to know is to esteem
and to esteem is to wish well settled in life with the object of his choice
wherever(here the silver-headed butler eyes the housemaid) she may be. Mr Towlinson returns thanks in a speech replete with feeling
of which the peroration turns on foreigners
regarding whom he says they may find favour
sometimes
with weak and inconstant intellects that can be led away by hair
but all he hopes
is
he may never hear of no foreigner never boning nothing out of no travelling chariot. The eye of Mr Towlinson is so severe and so expressive here
that the housemaid is turning hysterical
when she and all the rest
roused by the intelligence that the Bride is going away
hurry upstairs to witness her departure.