英文名著精选阅读:《红字》第二十二章(下)
Chapter 22 THE PROCESSION
第二十二章 游行
"Now, what mortalimagination could conceive it!" whispered the old lady, confidentially, to Hester. "Yonder divine man! That saint on earth, as the people uphold him to be, and as- I must needs say- he really looks! Who, now, that saw him pass in the procession, would think how little while it is since he went forth out of his study- chewing a Hebrew text of Scripture in his mouth, I warrant- to take an airing in the forest! Aha! we know what that means, Hester Prynne! But, truly, forsooth, I find it hard to believe him the same man. Many a church-member saw I, walking behind the music, that has danced in the same measure with me, when Somebody was fiddler, and, it might be, an Indian powwowor a Lapland wizard changing hands with us! That is but a trifle, when a woman knows the world. But this minister! Couldst thou surely tell, Hester, whether he was the same man that encountered thee on the forest-path?"
“瞧啊,这些凡夫俗子是绝对想象不出的!那老太婆对海丝特耳语着悄悄话。“瞧那神圣的人!人们都把他看作世间的圣者,而且连我都得说,他的样子真象极了!眼睁睁看着他在游行队伍中走过的人们,谁会想得到,就在不久之前,他还走出他的书斋,——我担保,他嘴里还念念有词地诵着希伯来文的《圣经》,——到森林中去逍遥呢!啊哈!我们清楚那意味着什么,海丝特·白兰!不过,说老实话,我简直不敢相信他就是那同一个人呢。我看见这么多教堂里的人跟在乐队后面游行,他们都曾随着我踏着同样的舞步,由某个人物演奏着提琴,或许,还有一个印第安人的祭司或拉普兰人③的法师同我们牵着手呢!只要一个女人看透了这个世界,这原本是小事一桩。但这个人可是牧师啊!海丝特,你说得准他是不是在林间小路上和你相遇的那同一个人呢?
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