Chapter9-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《巴黎圣母院The Hunchback of Notre-Dame》

CHAPTER 9 With the reader's permission,we shall conduct him back to the Place de Greve,which we yesterday quitted with Gringoire to follow La Esmeralda. Now,if the reader after surverying this lively and noisy scene which is performing all over the Place turns his eyes toward the ancient half-Gothic,halfRoman building,called the Tour-Roland,he may perceive at the angle of the facadea large public breviary.Beside this breviary is a narrow-pointed unglazed window,looking out upon the Place,and defended by two crossbars of iron. This cell had been noted in Paris for three centuries,ever since Madame Rolande of the Tour-Roland,out of affection for her father, who had fallen in the Crusades,caused it to be cut out of the wall of her own house,for the purpose of shutting herself up in it for ever. But to return to the cell of the Tour-Roland,it is fight to mention that ever since the death of Madame Rolande,it had seldom been for any length of time without a tenant.Many a women had come thither to mourn,some their indiscretions3,and others the loss of parents or lovers. ·092· 第九章 请读者允许我们回到昨天因我们跟随 甘果瓦跟踪拉·爱斯美拉达而离开的格雷沃 广场。 假若读者看了广场上各处上演的欢乐 而喧闹的场景后，现在把目光投向一座半 哥特式、半罗马式的罗兰塔，那么，他们 ①facade/fa'sad/n.建筑物的正 就会注意到在它的正面墙角，有一本公共 面 ②breviary/"bri:vIarl/n.每日祈祷 祈祷书，祈祷书旁边有个狭窄的、没有装 书 玻璃的窗，有一个窗洞朝着广场方向开着， 被两根交叉的铁条挡得死死的。 自从当年罗兰塔的罗兰夫人出于对她在 十字军之役阵亡的父亲的悼念，命人在自 己住宅的墙垣里凿出这个空间，以便把自 己与外界永远隔开时起，这间斗室名闻巴 黎已有三个世纪了。 但是，就罗兰塔的这间小屋而言，我们 应该说，自从罗兰夫人死后，难得一两年里 ③indiscretion/indis'krefan/n.不 谨慎，鲁莽 面没有人居住。许多妇女来这里，或者是悔 过，或者是悼念她们逝去的父母或情人。 ·093· The Hunchback of Notre-Dame So,people give this dark,damp,loathsome hole the name of Trou oux Rats. At the period of which we are treating the cell of the Tour-Roland was occupied.If the reader is desirous of knowing by whom he has only to listen to the conversation of three honest gossips2,who.at the moment at which we have directed the reader's attention to the Trou aux Rats,were going to the very spot,proceeding from the Chatelet along the riverside toward the Greve. "Let us make haste,Damoiselle Mahiette."said the youngest,who was also the lustiest of the three,to her country friend."I am afraid we shall be too late.We were told at the Chatelet that he was to be put in the pillory forthwith." "Pooh,pooh!What are you talking of,Damoiselle Oudarde Musnier?"replied the other Parisian."He is to stay two hours in the pillory.We shall have plenty of time.Have you ever seen anyone in the pillory,my dear Mahiette?" “Yes,”answered Mahiette,“at Reims." "Your pillory at Reims!Why,'tis not worth mentioning.A wretched cage,where they turn nothing but clodpoles!" “Surely I hear the sound of a tambourine5,”said Gervaise.“I dare say it is young Esmeralda playing her antics with her goat.Quick, Mahiette,and pull your boy along.You are here to see the curiosities of Paris.Yesterday you saw the Flemings;today you must see the Egyptian."” "The Egyptian!"exclaimed Mahiettle,starting back,and forcibly ·094· 巴黎圣母院 D loathsome/lh0s3m/a讨厌的 因此人们给这黑暗、潮湿、令人讨厌 的洞取名为“老鼠洞”。 044 在这个故事发生的年月，我们所讲的 洞里有人住着。如果读者急切地想知道住 的人究竞是谁，他们只需听听三个正派的 ②gossip'gosip/.闲聊 妇女的闲聊就行了。在我们把读者的注意 力转向那个“老鼠洞”的时候，这三个妇 女正沿着河岸，从沙特雷门向格雷沃广场 的方向走去。 “咱们快点走，马耶特太太。”三个人 中最年轻的一个，也是最强壮的一个对她 lusty /IAst/a健壮的，精力充 沛的 的乡村朋友说，“我怕我们要迟到了，我 们在沙特雷城门口就听人说马上要把他带 上刑台了。” “呸，呸！你说什么呀？乌米德·米斯尼 哀太太？”另外那个巴黎人回答道，“他要 在刑台待两小时呢。我们有的是时间。你 以前见过把人绑在示刑柱上吗？亲爱的马 耶特？” “见过，”马耶特答道，“在兰斯。” “兰斯的刑台！那根本不值一提，一个 ④clodpole /klodpaol/笨人，呆 破笼子，不过把乡巴佬转转而已”。 子 年年年。中 ⑤tambourine/taembo'ri:n/i.小y “真的，我听见了小鼓声。”吉尔维斯 手鼓 说，“我敢说，是小爱斯美拉达和她的小 antic'entik/n古怪的动作 羊又在做滑稽表演了。快走，马耶特，抓 住你的小孩，你来这儿是来看巴黎的热闹 的，你昨天见到弗朗明人，今天必须看看 埃及女人了。” “埃及女人！”马耶特喊道，她突然转 ·095· The Hunchback of Notre-Dame grasping the arm of her son."God forbid!She might steal my boy. Come,Eustache!" “That Egyptian steal your boy！”said Gervaise,,“Beshrew me if this be not a strange fancy!" “And what as still more strange,.”observed Oudarde,“Sister Gudule has the same notion of the Egyptians." “Who is Sister Gudule?”inquired Mahiette,. "You must be vastly ignorant at your Reims not to know that," replied Oudarde."Why,the recluse of the Trou aux Rats." "What!The poor woman to whom we are carrying the cake?" Oudarde nodded affirmatively. “Ohl”said Mahiette,clasping her boy's head in both her hands,“"I would not for the world that the same thing should happen to me as befell Paquette la Chantefleurie." “Ah！You must tell us that story,good Mahiette,”said Gervaise, taking her by the arm. “Twil,”answered Mahiette,“you must know that Paquette la Chantefleurie was a handsome girl of eighteen just when I was so myself.Chantefleurie and her mother had great difficulty in earning a livelihood2. "In'66,it will be sixteen years this very month on St Paul's Day, Paquette was brought to bed of a little girl.How delighted she was, poor thing!She had long been wishing for a child.By this time she was twenty-an age at which,it is said,loose women begin to be old. "One day a party of very strange-looking people on horseback arrived at Reims.They were beggars and vagabonds,who roved ·096· 巴黎圣母院 身，紧拽住儿子的手，“上帝保佑！她会 把我儿子拐走的！来，欧斯塔什” “那埃及人会拐走你儿子？”吉尔维斯 说，“你的想法真奇怪” “更古怪的是，”乌达德说，“古杜勒 修女对埃及人也有同样看法。” “谁是古杜勒修女？”马耶特问。 “你当真是个兰斯人，居然连她都不知 道！”乌尔德答道，“就是‘老鼠洞’里的 D recluse/r'klu:s/n.隐士 那个隐修女呀！” “什么！就是我们送饼给她的那个可怜 女子吗？” 乌达德肯定地点了点头。 “噢，”马耶特说，用双手搂着儿子的 脑袋，“我可不愿意巴格特·拉·香特弗娄 里那样的灾难降临到我自己的身上。” “啊，你必须告诉我这个故事，好马耶 特。”吉尔维斯拉着她的胳膊说。 “好，”马耶特回答道，“你必须知道。 巴格特·拉·香特弗娄里是个漂亮的十八岁 的姑娘，那一年我也恰好十八岁。香特弗 2 livelihood /'larvlthud/n.生计， 生活 娄里和她的母亲艰难度日。 “在六六年，就在十六年前的这个月圣 保罗节那天，巴格特生下了一个女儿。不幸 的女人，她高兴极了！她一直盼着有个孩子。 这时候，她已经二十岁了一对一个风尘女 子而言，这个年纪已经开始变老了。 “有一天，兰斯城里来了一队看起来非 ②ove/aUv/r,漂泊于 常古怪的骑马人。他们是乞丐和流浪者， ·097· The Hunchback of Notre-Dame about the country,headed by their duke and their counts.They came to Reims to tell fortunes in the name of the King of Algiers and the Emperor of Germany,and all Reims went to see them. "Poor Chantefleurie was seized with curiosity;she was anxious to know her luck,and whether little Agnes should one day be Empress of Armenia or something of that sort. "She carried her to the encampment of the Egyptians;the women admired the infant,they fondled her,they kissed her with their dark lips,they were astonished at her tiny hand,to no small delight of the poor mother.But above all they extolled her delicate feet and her pretty little shoes. "Next day she softly slipped out for a moment while the infant lay asleep on the bed,leaving the door ajar,and ran to tell an acquaintance in the Rue Sechesserie.On her return,not hearing the child cry as she went upstairs,she said to herself,'That's lucky!Baby is asleep yet.' She found the door wider open than she had left it;she went in hastily and ran to the bed.Poor mother!The infant was gone,and nothing belonging to it was left except one of its pretty little shoes.She rushed out of the room,darted downstairs,screaming,'My child!My child! Who has taken my child?'She went through the town,searching every street;She stopped the passengers,crying,'My child!My child!My dear little child!Tell me where to find my child,and I will be your slave,and you shall do with me what you please.' "At length Chantefleurie suddenly sprang up,and ran through the streets of Reims,shouting,To the camp of the Egyptians!Let the witches be burnt!'The Egyptians were gone.It was dark night;nobody ·098· 巴黎圣母院「 由他们的公爵和伯爵领着，到处游荡。这些 人以阿尔及尔国王和日耳曼皇帝的名义为兰 斯人算命。所有的兰斯人都跑去看他们。 “可怜的香特弗娄里也动了好奇心，她 急切地想知道自己运气如何，小阿涅丝是 否有朝一日能当亚美尼亚女王什么的。 “她就带她的小女儿去了埃及人的住 0 encampment/in'kampmant/n. 处。埃及女人直夸她的小女儿，抚摸她， 营地 2 fondle/fond/.爱抚，溺爱 用她们的黑唇亲她。对她的小手尤为羡慕。 可怜的母亲多兴奋啊。她们尤其夸奖小孩 的脚漂亮、鞋子精致。 extoll/ks'tD/n.须扬，赞美 “第二天，巴格特趁孩子在床上睡着了， 就悄悄地溜了出去，把门留了一条缝，然后 去塞西尔街告诉一个熟人。等她回家上楼时 没听见小孩的哭声，她自言自语地说：‘真 幸运，孩子还在睡觉。’她发现门比她离开 时开得大一些了：她急忙跑向床边。可怜的 母亲！小孩不见了。除了一只漂亮的鞋，她 什么也没留下。她冲出房子，奔下楼梯，尖 叫着：‘我的孩子啊！我的孩子啊！谁抱走 了我的孩子！’她跑遍了整个城镇，搜寻了 每一条街道，她一整天都在来回跑。她拦 住行人，哭喊着：‘我的女儿！我的女儿！ 我那漂亮的女儿！在哪里能够找到我的女 儿，我愿意做你的奴婢，你可以随心所欲 地待我。' “最后，香特弗娄里突然跳了起来，在 兰斯城里所有的街道奔跑，大声地叫道： ‘到埃及人营地里去！烧死那些巫婆！’埃及 ·099· The Hunchback of Notre-Dame could tell which way they had gone.Next day,which was Sunday, there were found on a heath between Gueux and Tilloy,about two leagues from Reims,the remains of a large fire,bits of ribands which had belonged to the dress of Paquette's child,and several drops of blood.The day after her hair was quite grey,and on the next she had disappeared.” “And the little shoe?”said Gervaise. "Disappeared with the mother,"replied Mahictte. The three women turned back,and,having arrived at the Tour- Roland,Oudarde said to the other two:"We must not all look in at the hole at once lest we should frighten Sister Gudule." She went up by herself to the window.The moment she looked in profound pity took possession of every feature. Upon the stone floor,in one angle,a women was seated or, rather,crouched.Her long,lank grey hair failing over her face down to her feet. At intervals,however,her livid lips opened for the purpose of breathing,and quivered;but they looked as dead and as will-less as leaves driven by the blast. Such was the creature to whom was given from her garb the familiar name of Sacky,and from her dwelling that of the Recluse. "Sister!Sister St.Gudule!"said Oudarde in her turn,in a kinder and more soothing tone.The recluse was silent and motionless as before. “A strange woman!”exclaimed Gervaise.“I verily believe that a bombard would not awaken her." “Perhaps dead,”ejaculatedMahiette. ·100· 巴黎圣母院 人已经走了。天黑下来了，人们不知道埃 及人到哪里去了。第二天是个星期天，在 D heath /hi:/n石楠树 距离兰斯城大约六英里的西格安和底洛依 之间的石楠林中，人们找到了一堆篝火的 痕迹，几根系在巴格特女儿的衣服上的丝 带以及几滴血。第二天，她的头发全都白 了；第三天，她消失了。” “那只小鞋呢？”吉尔维斯问。 “跟那母亲一起不见了。”马耶特答。 三个女人折回到原路，到了罗兰塔跟 前。乌达德对另外的两人说道：“我们不 能三个人同时往洞里看，以免惊吓了古德 勒修女。” 她一个人前往窗口。她刚看了一眼， 一种深沉的怜悯就显现在整个面容上。 地板的一个角落里，坐着一个女人， 2 lank /lagk/a长而柔软的 或者说，蜷缩着一个女人。她那长长的白 头发从脸上一直垂到了膝盖。 间或，她那青黑的嘴唇为呼气而张开， 间或，颤抖一下，但看起来她是机械的， 就像被疾风吹走的无意志的落叶。 就是这个生灵，因为她的装束人们称 她为“麻袋女”；因为她的居所，人们称她 dwelling'dwco/n.住处 “隐修女”。 “修女！圣古德勒修女！”轮到乌达德说 了。她用更温柔更动听的声音喊道。修女 像以前一样沉默不语，一动不动。 “奇怪的女人！”吉尔维斯喊道，“我肯 定大炮都轰不醒她。” ④ejaculate'd5 ekjoleit/突然 说出 “她没准死了。”马耶特喊道。 ·101·