'While they examined me, Cathy came round; she heard the last speech, and laughed. Edgar Linton, after an inquisitive stare, collected sufficient wit to recognise her. They see us at church, you know, though we seldom meet them elsewhere. "That's Miss Earnshaw?" he whispered to his mother, "and look how Skulker has bitten her - how her foot bleeds!" |
“在他们审视我的时候,凯西走了过来。听见他们说得哪些话,她大笑了起来。埃德加·林顿好奇的看了一会,终于明白过来她是谁了。尽管我们很少在其他的地反见到他们,但是我们在教堂见过。“她是恩肖小姐?”他轻声对他妈妈说,“瞧,斯库尔克(狗名)把她咬成什么样了,她的脚流血很厉害!” |
'"Miss Earnshaw? Nonsense!" cried the dame; "Miss Earnshaw scouring the country with a gipsy! And yet, my dear, the child is in mourning - surely it is - and she may be lamed for life!" |
“恩肖小姐?胡说八道!”夫人失声叫了出来,“恩肖小姐和这样的流氓一起在荒野里乱跑!而起现在,噢,我的天,这个孩子还在戴孝,肯定是她了,她也许会落下跛脚!” |
'"What culpable carelessness in her brother!" exclaimed Mr. Linton, turning from me to Catherine. "I've understood from Shielders"' (that was the curate, sir) '"that he lets her grow up in absolute heathenism. But who is this? Where did she pick up this companion? Oho! I declare he is that strange acquisition my late neighbour made, in his journey to |
“她哥哥真是太粗心了!” |
'"A wicked boy, at all events," remarked the old lady, "and quite unfit for a decent house! Did you notice his language, Linton? I'm shocked that my children should have heard it." |
“不管怎么说,他都是一个讨厌的孩子。” |
'I recommenced cursing - don't be angry, Nelly - and so Robert was ordered to take me off. I refused to go without Cathy; he dragged me into the garden, pushed the lantern into my hand, assured me that Mr. Earnshaw should be informed of my behaviour, and, bidding me march directly, secured the door again. The curtains were still looped up at one corner, and I resumed my station as spy; because, if Catherine had wished to return, I intended shattering their great glass panes to a million of fragments, unless they let her out. She sat on the sofa quietly. Mrs. Linton took off the grey cloak of the dairy-maid which we had borrowed for our excursion, shaking her head and expostulating with her, I suppose: she was a young lady, and they made a distinction between her treatment and mine. Then the woman-servant brought a basin of warm water, and washed her feet; and Mr. Linton mixed a tumbler of negus, and Isabella emptied a plateful of cakes into her lap, and Edgar stood gaping at a distance. Afterwards, they dried and combed her beautiful hair, and gave her a pair of enormous slippers, and wheeled her to the fire; and I left her, as merry as she could be, dividing her food between the little dog and Skulker, whose nose she pinched as he ate; and kindling a spark of spirit in the vacant blue eyes of the Lintons - a dim reflection from her own enchanting face. I saw they were full of stupid admiration; she is so immeasurably superior to them - to everybody on earth, is she not, Nelly?' |
“我重新开始了咒骂。别生气,雷莉。于是他们让罗伯特把我带走。我坚持要带上凯西,拒绝一个人离开。他把我拖到院子里,塞给我一只灯笼,并警告说,我所做的一切都会告知恩肖先生的,命令我立即上路,然后把门锁上了。窗帘的一个角上卷着,我又跑到那边偷偷往里看。如果凯西想回来而他们不让她出来的话,我就把他们这豪华大窗的玻璃砸成一百万块碎片。她安静地坐在沙发上。 |
'There will more come of this business than you reckon on,' I answered, covering him up and extinguishing the light. 'You are incurable, Heathcliff; and Mr. Hindley will have to proceed to extremities, see if he won't.' My words came truer than I desired. The luckless adventure made Earnshaw furious. And then Mr. Linton, to mend matters, paid us a visit himself on the morrow, and read the young master such a lecture on the road he guided his family, that he was stirred to look about him, in earnest. Heathcliff received no flogging, but he was told that the first word he spoke to Miss Catherine should ensure a dismissal; and Mrs. Earnshaw undertook to keep her sister-in-law in due restraint when she returned home; employing art, not force: with force she would have found it impossible. |
“这件事不会如你所想的结束的。”我回答道,“你没治了,希斯克利夫。欣德 |
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