狄更斯小说改编系列 狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第34章Part8

狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第34章Part8  

'I have hung about a family
my deary
' said the mother
even more humbly and submissively than before.
'What family?'
'Hush
darling. Don't be angry with me. I did it for the love of you. In memory of my poor gal beyond seas.' She put out her hand deprecatingly
and drawing it back again
laid it on her lips.
'Years ago
my deary
' she pursued
glancing timidly at the attentive and stem face opposed to her
'I came across his little child
by chance.'
'Whose child?'
'Not his
Alice deary; don't look at me like that; not his. How could it be his? You know he has none.'
'Whose then?' returned the daughter. 'You said his.'
'Hush
Ally; you frighten me
deary. Mr Dombey's - only Mr Dombey's. Since then
darling
I have seen them often. I have seen him.'
In uttering this last word
the old woman shrunk and recoiled
as if with sudden fear that her daughter would strike her. But though the daughter's face was fixed upon her
and expressed the most vehement passion
she remained still: except that she clenched her arms tighter and tighter within each other
on her bosom
as if to restrain them by that means from doing an injury to herself
or someone else
in the blind fury of the wrath that suddenly possessed her.
'Little he thought who I was!' said the old woman
shaking her clenched hand.
'And little he cared!' muttered her daughter
beeen her teeth.
'But there we were
said the old woman
'face to face. I spoke to him
and he spoke to me. I sat and watched him as he went away down a long grove of trees: and at every step he took
I cursed him soul and body.'
'He will thrive in spite of that
' returned the daughter disdainfully.
'Ay
he is thriving
' said the mother.
She held her peace; for the face and form before her were unshaped by rage. It seemed as if the bosom would burst with the emotions that strove within it. The effort that constrained and held it pent up
was no less formidable than the rage itself: no less bespeaking the violent and dangerous character of the woman who made it. But it succeeded
and she asked
after a silence:
'Is he married?'