狄更斯小说改编系列 狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第34章Part5

狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第34章Part5  

'What is it then?' returned the daughter. 'It had best be something that don't last
mother
or my way out is easier than my way in.
'Hear that!' exclaimed the mother. 'After all these years she threatens to desert me in the moment of her ing back again!'
'I tell you
mother
for the second time
there have been years for me as well as you
' said Alice. 'Come back harder? Of course I have e back harder. What else did you expect?'
'Harder to me! To her own dear mother!' cried the old woman
'I don't know who began to harden me
if my own dear mother didn't
' she returned
sitting with her folded arms
and knitted brows
and pressed lips as if she were bent on excluding
by force
every softer feeling from her breast. 'Listen
mother
to a word or o. If we understand each other now
we shall not fall out any more
perhaps. I went away a girl
and have e back a woman. I went away undutiful enough
and have e back no better
you may swear. But have you been very dutiful to me?'
'I!' cried the old woman. 'To my gal! A mother dutiful to her own child!'
'It sounds unnatural
don't it?' returned the daughter
looking coldly on her with her stern
regardless
hardy
beautiful face; 'but I have thought of it sometimes
in the course of my lone years
till I have got used to it. I have heard some talk about duty first and last; but it has always been of my duty to other people. I have wondered now and then - to pass away the time - whether no one ever owed any duty to me.
Her mother sat mowing
and mumbling
and shaking her head
but whether angrily or remorsefully
or in denial
or only in her physical infirmity
did not appear.
'There was a child called Alice Marwood
' said the daughter
with a laugh
and looking down at herself in terrible derision of herself
'born
among poverty and neglect
and nursed in it. Nobody taught her
nobody stepped forward to help her
nobody cared for her.'
'Nobody!' echoed the mother
pointing to herself
and striking her breast.