英文名著精选阅读:《红字》第二十章(上)
Chapter 20 THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
第二十章 迷悯中的牧师
AS the minister departed, in advance of Hester Prynne and little Pearl, he threw a backward glance; half expecting that he should discover only some faintly traced features or outline of the mother and the child, slowly fading into the twilightof the woods. So great a vicissitudein his life could not at once be received as real. But there was Hester, cladin her grey robe, still standing beside the tree-trunk, which some blast had overthrown a long antiquityago, and which time had ever since been covering with moss, so that these two fated ones, with earth's heaviest burden on them, might there sit down together, and find a single hour's rest and solace. And there was Pearl, too, lightly dancing from the margin of the brook- now that the intrusive third person was gone- and taking her old place by her mother's side. So the minister had not fallen asleep, and dreamed!
牧师先回去了。他一面在前面走着,一面回过头来望着海丝特·白兰和小珠儿,怀着几分期望,想透过林中暮霭,再看看逐渐模糊的母女二人的身影或面容。他的生活中发生了如此巨大的变迁,他一时还无法相信是真的。但是海丝特就在那儿,身穿灰袍,仍然站在树干的旁边——那是多年前被一阵疾风吹例的,之后年深日久就长满了青蔷,于是他们这两个承受着世上最沉重的负担的同命运的人,才得以一起坐在上面,安享那难得的一小时的休憩与慰藉。那儿还有珠儿,又轻捷地从溪边蹦跳着回到了母亲身边她的老位置,因为那闯来的第三者已经离去了。这么看来,牧师刚才并没有昏昏睡去,并非在梦中才见到这一切的!
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