英文名著精选阅读:《红字》第十一章(上)
Chapter 11 THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
第十一章 内心
AFTER the incident last described, the intercourse between the clergyman and the physician, though externallythe same, was really of another character than it had previously been. The intellect of Roger Chillingworth had now a sufficiently plain path before it. It was not, indeed, precisely that which he had laid out for himself to read. Calm, gentle, passionless, as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hithertolatent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy. To make himself the one trusted friend, to whom should be confided all the fear, the remorse, the agony, the ineffectual repentance, the backward rush of sinful thoughts, expelledin vain! All that guilty sorrow, hidden from the world, whose great heart would have pitied and forgiven, to be revealed to him, the Pitiless, to him, the Unforgiving! All that dark treasure to be lavished on the very man, to whom nothing else could so adequately pay the debt of vengeance.
在上面描述的那件事之后,牧师和医生间的交往,虽然表面上同原先没什么两样,但却具有了不同的性质。罗杰·齐灵渥斯的思路如今变得十分平坦了。的确,那倒不一定就是他要追寻的途径。他虽然表面上平静、温和、不动感情,然而我们却担心,在这个不幸的老人心中至今仍深深埋藏着的恶毒,此时却要活跃起来,从而会引导他想象出超乎常人的更直接的向敌人复仇的手段。他把自己装扮成那人的可信赖的朋友,让对方向他吐露一切恐惧、自责、烦恼、徒劳的懊悔、回潮的负罪感,而且丝毫不能苟且!那些向世界隐瞒着的一切内疚,本可以获得世界的博大心胸的怜悯和原谅的,如今却要揭示给他这个毫无怜悯心的人,给他这个不肯原谅人的人!那珍藏着的一切隐私,竟然滥施给这样一个人,最最恰如其分地让他得偿复仇之夙债。
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