英文名著精选阅读:《红字》第六章(上)
Chapter 06 PEARL
第六章 珠儿
WE have as yet hardly spoken of the infant; that little creature, whose innocentlife had sprung, by the inscrutabledecree of Providence, a lovely and immortal flower, out of the rank luxurianceof a passion. How strange it seemed to the sad woman, as she watched the growth, and the beauty that became every day more brilliant, and the intelligence that threw its quiveringsunshine over the tiny features of this child! Her Pearl!- For so had Hester called her; not as a name expressiveof her aspect, which had nothing of the calm, white, unimpassionedlustrethat would be indicated by the comparison. But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price- purchased with all she had- her mother's only treasure! How strange, indeed! Man had marked this woman's sin by a scarlet letter, which had such potentand disastrous efficacythat no human sympathycould reach her, save it were sinful like herself. God, as a direct consequence of the sin which man thus punished, had given her a lovely child, whose place was on that same dishonoured bosom, to connect her parent for ever with the race and descentof mortals, and to be finally a blessed soul in heaven! Yet these thoughts affected Hester Prynne less with hope than apprehension. She knew that her deed had been evil; she could have no faith, therefore, that its result would be good. Day after day, she looked fearfully into the child's expanding nature; ever dreading to detectsome dark and wild peculiarity, that should correspond with the guiltinessto which she owed her being.
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