英文名著精选阅读:《红字》第四章(上)
Chapter 04 THE INTERVIEW
第四章 会面
AFTER her return to the prison, Hester Prynne was found to be in a state of nervous excitement that demanded constant watchfulness, lest she should perpetrateviolence on herself, or do some half-frenziedmischief to the poor babe. As night approached, it proving impossible to quellher insubordinationby rebukeor threats of punishment, Master Brackett, the jailer, thought fit to introduce a physician. He described him as a man of skill in all Christian modes of physical science, and likewise familiar with whatever the savage people could teach, in respect to medicinal herbs and roots that grew in the forest. To say the truth, there was much need of professional assistance, not merely for Hester herself, but still more urgently for the child; who, drawing its sustenancefrom the maternalbosom, seemed to have drank in with it all the turmoil, the anguishand despair, which pervadedthe mother's system. It now writhed in convulsionsof pain, and was a forcibletype, in its little frame, of the moral agony which Hester Prynne had borne throughout the day.
海丝特·白兰返回监狱之后,便陷入一阵神经质的激动之中,必须有人片刻不离地看守着她,以防止她作出自戕之举,或在一时狂乱之中对可怜的婴儿有所伤害。夜幕将临,人们发现无论是大声呵斥抑或是以惩罚作威胁,对于她的不顺从都无济于事,看守布莱基特先生便主张请一个医生来给她看看。按照他的介绍,那医生不但精通基督教的各种医术,面且熟谙从野蛮人那里学来的长在林间的一切草药。老实讲,需要医生诊治的,不仅是海丝特本人,倒是那孩子更为急迫。由于她要从母亲的乳汁中汲取营养,似乎同时吸进了渗透在母亲肌体中的一切骚动、痛楚和绝望。此时,她正在痛苦的痉挛中扭动着,那小小的身躯成了海丝特·白兰一天中所忍受的精神上的极度痛苦的有力的具体表现。
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