"There is truth in what she says," began the minister, with a voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful, insomuchthat the hall re-echoed, and the hollow armour rang with it- "truth in what Hester says, and in the feeling which inspires her! God gave her the child, and gave her, too, an instinctiveknowledge of its nature and requirements- both seemingly so peculiar- which no other mortal being can possess. And, moreover, is there not a quality of awful sacrednessin the relation between this mother and this child?"
“她所说的确有道理,年轻的牧师开口说,他那甜蜜柔和的嗓音虽然微微发颤,却强劲有力地在大厅中回荡着,直震得那空壳铠中部随之轰鸣,“她的话确有道理,鼓舞她的感情也没有错!上帝赐给了她这个孩子,也就赋予了她了解孩子天性和需求的本能——而这孩子的天性和需求看来又是如此与众不同——她作母亲的这种本能别人是不可能具备的。何况,在她们的母女关系之中难道没有一种令人敬畏的神圣之处吗?
"Ay!- how is that, good Master Dimmesdale?" interrupted the Governor. "Make that plain, I pray you!"
“喂!——这是怎么讲,善良的丁梅斯代尔先生?总督接口说。“我请你把话说得明白些!
"It must be even so," resumedthe minister. "For, if we deem it otherwise, do we not thereby say that the Heavenly Father, the Creator of all flesh, hath lightly recognised a deed of sin, and made of no account the distinction between unhallowedlustand holy love? This child of its father's guilt and its mother's shame hath come from the hand of God, to work in many ways upon her heart, who pleads so earnestly, and with such bitterness of spirit, the right to keep her. It was meant for a blessing; for the one blessing of her life! It was meant, doubtless, as the mother herself hath told us, for a retributiontoo; a torture to be felt at many an unthought-of moment; a pang, a sting, an ever-recurring agony, in the midst of a troubled joy! Hath she not expressed this thought in the garbof the poor child, so forcibly reminding us of that red symbol which searsher bosom?"
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