狄更斯的小说特点 狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第37章Part1

狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第37章Part1  

Florence
Edith
and Mrs Skewton were together next day
and the carriage was waiting at the door to take them out. For Cleopatra had her galley again now
and Withers
no longer the-wan
stood upright in a pigeon-breasted jacket and military trousers
behind her wheel-less chair at dinner-time and butted no more. The hair of Withers was radiant with pomatum
in these days of down
and he wore kid gloves and smelt of the water of Cologne.
They were assembled in Cleopatra's room The Serpent of old Nile (not to mention her disrespectfully) was reposing on her sofa
sipping her morning chocolate at three o'clock in the afternoon
and Flowers the Maid was fastening on her youthful cuffs and frills
and performing a kind of private coronation ceremony on her
with a peach-coloured velvet bon; the artificial roses in which nodded to unmon advantage
as the palsy trifled with them
like a breeze.
'I think I am a little nervous this morning
Flowers
' said Mrs Skewton. 'My hand quite shakes.'
'You were the life of the party last night
Ma'am
you know
' returned Flowers
' and you suffer for it
to-day
you see.'
Edith
who had beckoned Florence to the window
and was looking out
with her back turned on the toilet of her esteemed mother
suddenly withdrew from it
as if it had lightened.
'My darling child
' cried Cleopatra
languidly
'you are not nervous? Don't tell me
my dear Edith
that you
so enviably self-possessed
are beginning to be a martyr too
like your unfortunately constituted mother! Withers
someone at the door.'
'Card
Ma'am
' said Withers
taking it towards Mrs Dombey.
'I am going out
' she said without looking at it.