Chapter3 Across the Moor穿越旷野-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《秘密花园The Secret Garden》

ChapterIII Across the Moor She slept a long time, and when she awakened Mrs. Medlock had bought a lunchbasket at one of the stations and they had some chicken and cold beef and bread and butter and some hot tea. The rain seemed to be streaming down more heavily than ever and everybody in the station wore wet and glistening waterproofs The guard lighted the lamps in the carriage, and Mrs. Medlock cheered up very much over her tea and chicken and beef. She ate a great deal and afterward fell asleep herself, and Mary sat and stared at her and watched her fine bonnet slip or one side until she herself fell asleep once more in the corner of the carriage, lulled^{① by the splashing of the rain against the windows. It was quite dark when she awakened again. The train had stopped at a station and Mrs. Medlock was shaking her. "You have had a sleep!"she said. "It's time to open your eves! We're at Thwaite Station and we've got a long drive before us." Mary stood up and tried to keep her eves open while Mrs. Medlock collecte her parcels. The little girl did not offer to help her, because in India native seryants always picked up or carried things and it seemed quite proper that other people should wait on one The station was a small one and nobody but themselves seemed to be getting out of the train. The station-master spoke to Mrs. Medlock in a rough, good- natured way, pronouncing his words in a queer broad fashion which Mary found out afterward was Yorkshire .030· 第三章 穿越旷野 她睡了很久,当被叫起来的时候,麦德洛克夫人已 经把从车站买来的午餐篮摆在了两个人的面前。她们吃 了几口鸡肉和冷牛肉,面包夹着黄油,又喝了些热茶。 窗外的雨似乎下得更大了,车站里的每个人都穿着湿渡 漉、挂着水珠的雨衣。守卫点亮了车厢内的灯,麦德洛 克夫人因为吃了些热茶和肉,心情好多了。她吃了好多 东西,不一会儿便睡着了,玛丽坐在那里看着她,看着 她那顶精致的帽子滑到了一边,之后自已也缩在车厢的 ①lullllv.使静下入睡 角落里,听着窗外雨打车窗的声音,再次陷入了睡眠。 当她再一次醒来时,天已经很黑了。火车停靠在站里 麦德洛克夫人则正在推她。 “你睡得差不多了吧!”她说,“该睁开眼睛了! 咱们到新开地了,还得坐好久的马车呢。” 玛丽站了起来,努力保持清醒,麦德洛克夫人则在 收拾行李。小姑娘并没有提出要帮忙,因为在印度的时 候,都是当地的仆人收拾和拎东西,在她看来,让别人 伺候是一件再自然不过的事了。 车站很小,除了她们便没人下车了。站长同麦德洛 克夫人说话的时候虽有几分粗鲁,却还是透着亲切。他 嘴里说出的话听上去有几分奇怪,口音很重,玛丽之后 才知道,那便是约克郡的方言。 ·031· ChapterIII Across the Moor “I see tha's got back,"he said. “An' tha's browt th'young'un with thee." “Aye, that's her,"answered Mrs. Medlock, speaking with a Yorkshire accent herself and jerking her head over her shoulder toward Mary. "How's thy Missus?" "Well enow. Th' carriage is waitin' outside for thee." A brougham^{①} stood on the road before the little outside platform. Mary saw that it was a smart carriage and that it was a smart footman who helped her in His long waterproof coat and the waterproof covering of his hat were shining and dripping with rain as everything was, the burly② station-master included. When he shut the door, mounted the box with the coachman, and they drove off, the little girl found herself seated in a comfortably cushioned corner. but she was not inclined to go to sleep again. She sat and looked out of the window, curious to see something of the road over which she was being driver to the queer place Mrs. Medlock had spoken of. She was not at all a timid child and she was not exactly frightened. but she felt that there was no knowing wha might happen in a house with a hundred rooms nearly all shut up - a house standing on the edge of a moor. "What is a moor?" she said suddenly to Mrs. Medlock "Look out of the window in about ten minutes and you'll see," the woman answered. "We've got to drive five miles across Missel Moor before we get to the Manor. You won't see much because it's a dark night, but you can see something." Mary asked no more questions but waited in the darkness of her corner keeping her eyes on the window. The carriage lamps cast rays of light a little distance ahead of them and she caught glimpses{③} of the things they passed. After they had left the station they had driven through a tiny village and she had seen whitewashed cottages and the lights of a public house. Then they had passed a church and a vicarage{} and a little shop-window or so in a cottage with toys .032: 第三章 穿越旷野 ] “瞅见你们回来,”他开口问候,“还带了个小闺 女。” “是,就是她。”麦德洛克夫人一边用约克郡的 口音回应着,一边把头朝玛丽那边歪了一下,“你家婆 子怎么样?” “好着。马车在外头候着你们呢。” ①brougham I'bru:oml n.(驳 者坐在车厢外的)布鲁 小站台外的路边停靠着一辆四轮马车。玛丽见那马 厄姆四轮马车 车十分考究,扶她上车的侍者也是衣冠楚楚。他身上长 长的雨衣和帽子上的防水层都亮晶晶的,还有滴滴雨珠 ②burly [ba:lila.高大结实 从上面滑落,和周边的所有事物别无二致,包括那位壮 的 实的站长。 当他关上车门,同车夫一起爬上马车,马儿也逐 渐跑起来的时候,小姑娘注意到自己正坐在一个铺着 软垫的舒适角落里,但她没有继续睡觉的打算。她坐 在那里,看向窗外,一边好奇地观察着路上的一切, 一边想象着麦德洛克夫人口中那个奇怪的地方到底是 什么样的。她绝不是一个胆小的孩子,也说不上是害怕 但她就是想象不出,在那样一栋有一百间几乎间间上 锁的房间、仁立在旷野边上的房子里,究竟会发生什 么事情。 “旷野是什么?”她突然向麦德洛克夫人提问。 “十分钟后看看窗外,到时候你就知道了。”那个 女人回答道,“等到了米瑟旷野之后,我们还得再走个 五英里才到庄园。现在是晚上,估计你看不太清楚,但 多多少少还是能看到些什么的。” 玛丽没再发问,只是静静地在角落的那片黑暗中等 ③glimpse Jqlimpsl n.-警 待,眼睛一直盯着窗户。马车灯在他们前面的一小段距 离中投下道道灯柱,借着这些光亮,玛丽警见了沿途经 过的东西。离开车站后,他们穿过一座小小的村庄,在 那里,她看到了白色的小屋和酒馆散发出的光亮。后来, ④ vicarage I'vikarid3]n. 教 区牧师住所 他们路过了一座教堂和牧师的住处,还有一家小店的掘 窗,里面摆着玩具、糖果和各式各样稀奇古怪的东西 供人购买。再后来,他们便上了公路,玛丽看到了排排 .033· Chapter III Across the Moor and sweets and odd things set out for sale. Then they were on the highroad and she saw hedges and trees. After that there seemed nothing different for a long time - or at least it seemed a long time to her At last the horses began to go more slowly, as if they were climbing up-hill. and presently there seemed to be no more hedges and no more trees. She could see nothing, in fact, but a dense darkness on either side. She leaned forward and pressed her face against the window just as the carriage gave a big jol^{}. "Eh! We're on the moor now sure enough." said Mrs, Medlock. The carriage lamps shed a yellow light on a rough-looking road which seemed to be cut through bushes and low-growing things which ended in the great expanse of dark apparently spread out before and around them. A wind was rising and making a singular, wild. low, rushing sound "It's - it's not the sea, is it?" said Mary, looking round at her companion. "No, not it." answered Mrs. Medlock. "Nor it isn't fields nor mountains, it's just miles and miles and miles of wild land that nothing grows on but heather② and gorse③} and broom^{④}, and nothing lives on but wild ponies and sheep." "I feel as if it might be the sea, if there were water on it." said Mary. "It sounds like the sea just now." "That's the wind blowing through the bushes,"Mrs. Medlock said. "It's a wild, dreary enough place to my mind, though there's plenty that likes it - particularly when the heather's in bloom." On and on they drove through the darkness, and though the rain stopped the wind rushed by and whistled and made strange sounds. The road went up and down, and several times the carriage passed over a little bridge beneath which water rushed very fast with a great deal of noise, Mary felt as if the drive would never come to an end and that the wide, bleak moor was a wide expanse of black ocean through which she was passing on a strip of dry land “I don't like it."she said to herself. "I don't like it." and she pinched her thin lips more tightly together The horses were climbing up a hilly piece of road when she first caugh .034· 第三章 穿越旷野 ] 树篱和棵棵大树。在之后的很长一段时间中,路上的风 景都没有什么变化一一至少在玛丽看来,时间已经过了 许久。 到了后来,马儿逐渐放慢了脚步,好像在爬山似的 视野里也不见了树篱和大树。事实上,她什么也看不见 了,只剩下两边沉重的夜色。她向前倾了倾,把脸紧紧 贴在窗子上,这时,马车突然剧烈地颠簸了一下。 ①jolt [dsoult]n.摇晃,颠 簸 “啊!这会儿我们真的走到荒原上了。”麦德洛克 夫人感叹道。 马车灯在高低不平的道路上投下了晕黄的光芒。这 条路似乎是在树丛和矮灌木之中开辟出来的,一直延伸 至他们前方无尽的黑暗。风越来越大,发出一种奇异而 低沉、狂野而急促的声音。 “这--这不是大海的声音,对吧?”玛丽回头看 着身旁的人,这样问道。 ②heather I'heoaln. 【植物】 “不,当然不是,”麦德洛克夫人回答,“这儿也不 欧石南 是田野或高山,只是绵延不尽的荒地,寸草不生,只长 ③gorse [qo:sln. 【植物】荆 着些石梢、荆豆和金雀花;荒无人烟,只生活着些野马 ④broom [bru:mln. 【植物】 和绵羊。” 金雀花 “我以为这里是大海,就差没有水了,”玛丽说,“刚 才的声音听上去和大海一样。” “那是风刮过树从的声音。”麦德洛克夫人应道,“在 我眼里,这儿又荒凉又偏僻,不过还是有不少人喜欢这 里的,尤其是当石花盛开的时候。” 他们继续在黑暗中前行。尽管雨已经停了,大风却 呼啸着刮过,发出奇怪的声响。道路起起伏伏,马车还 驶过了几座小桥,桥下水流湍急,哗哗作响。玛丽感觉 这段路程仿佛永远不会到头,广阔而荒凉的旷野就像漆 黑而无际的海洋,而自已则正穿行在大海当中一条狭长 的陆地上。 “我不喜欢这里,”她心里想,“我不喜欢这里。” 于是,她将自已薄薄的嘴唇抿得更紧了。 当玛丽第一次在窗外警见光亮的时候,马车正走在 .035· Chapter III Across the Moor sight of a light. Mrs. Medlock saw it as soon as she did and drew a long sigh of relief. “Eh, I am glad to see that bit o' light twinkling." she exclaimed. "It's the light in the lodge^{} window. We shall get a good cup of tea after a bit, at all events." It was "after a bit." as she said. for when the carriage passed through the park gates there was still two miles of avenue to drive through and the trees (which nearly met overhead) made it seem as if they were driving through a long dark vault^{②}. They drove out of the vault into a clear space and stopped before an immensely long but low-built house which seemed to ramble{④ round a stone court. At first Mary thought that there were no lights at all in the windows, but as she got out of the carriage she saw that one room in a corner upstairs showed a dull{} glow. The entrance door was a huge one made of massive, curiously shaped panels of oak studded^{}with big iron nails and bound with great iron bars. It opened into an enormous hall. which was so dimly lighted that the faces in the portraits on the walls and the figures in the suits of armor made Mary feel that she did not want tc look at them, As she stood on the stone floor she looked a yery small. odd little black figure, and she felt as small and lost and odd as she looked A neat, thin old man stood near the manservant who opened the door for them "You are to take her to her room," he said in a husky^{} voice. "He doesn't want to see her. He's going to London in the morning." "Very well, Mr. Pitcher," Mrs. Medlock answered. "So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage." “What's expected of you, Mrs. Medlock,"Mr. Pitcher said. "is that you make sure that he's not disturbed and that he doesn't see what he doesn't want to see." And then Mary Lennox was led up a broad staircase{} and down a long corridor^{} and up a short flight^{} of steps and through another corridor and another, until a door opened in a wall and she found herself in a room with a fire in it and supper on a table Mrs. Medlock said unceremoniously{①: .036. 第三章 穿越旷野 一段上坡路上。很快,麦德洛克夫人也看见了那抹灯光 还长长地舒了一口气。 “啊,看到那点闪烁的灯光真是太让人开心了,” ①lodge ]lod3]n.(庄园宅 她欢呼着,“那是门房小屋的灯光。不管怎样,一会儿 第等处的)仆人小屋, 我们总算是能喝上一杯热茶了。” 门房 她说的没错,确实还得再过“一会儿”,因为当马 车驶过大门之后,又沿着大路走了两英里。路旁的树木 几乎垂到了头顶,让人感觉自已是在一条黑暗绵长的拱 ② vault [vo:lt]n.拱顶 顶之下穿行。 ③ immensely [i'mensli] ad 马车穿过拱顶,来到一片开阔的空地,最后停在了 无限地 ④ ramble I'raembl]v. 婉蜒伸 一栋无限延伸至两侧、似乎是围绕着一座石制大厅而建 的矮层建筑面前。一开始,玛丽以为屋子里一点灯光都 没有,但是当她下了马车,便看到楼上角落里的一个房 dull[dxl]a.(色彩、光 线等)暗淡的 间透出了些许暗淡的光亮。 进门处那扇巨大的房门由许多块厚重而形状奇特的 stud [stadlv.给......钉上 橡木板拼接而成,以大铁钉加以装饰,四周则包裹着一 饰钉 圈铁条。打开那扇门便是一间十分宽敞的大厅,灯光昏 暗无比,这样一来,玛丽便看都不想看那些挂在墙上的 画像和立在那的人形铠甲。当她踏上大理石地面的时候 看上去就像是一团又小又怪异的黑色人影,而她的内心 也同自已的形象一般,又小、又怪异、又不知所措。 husky ['haski]a.(嗓音) 一位衣着整洁、身材瘦小的老者就站在那位为他们 有些沙哑的,喉发干 开门的男侍从身旁。 的,嘶哑的 “把她带到自己的房间里,”他的声音有些沙哑,“先 生不想见她。他明天一早就要去伦敦了。” “知道了,皮彻先生,”麦德洛克夫人应着,“只要 告诉我需要做些什么,我就会尽力完成的。” ⑧ staircase ['steokeis]n. 楼 “麦德洛克夫人,你需要做的,”皮彻说道,“便是 梯 保证先生能够不被打扰,也不会见着不想看见的东西。” corridor ['korido:]n. 走廊 flight [fait]n. 【建筑工 之后,玛丽·蓝婉克斯便被人领着,步上宽阔的台 程】阶梯步级;楼梯阶 阶,穿过长长的走廊,又爬了几级台阶,穿过一条走廊 段 unceremoniously I'An,seri- 然后又是一条走廊,直到一扇门在她面前打开,她发现 'mouniasli]ad. 不拘礼节 自己站在一间点着炉火的房间,而晚餐就摆在桌子上。 地,随便地 麦德洛克夫人毫不客气地开口了 ·037· Chapter III Across the Moor "Well, here you are! This room and the next are where you'll live -and you must keep to them. Don't you forget that!" It was in this way Mistress Mary arrived at Misselthwaite Manor and she had perhaps never felt quite so contrary in all her life .038. 第三章 穿越旷野 “好吧,就是这儿了!这间屋子还有隔壁的那间就 是今后你要生活的地方--不许乱跑。记住了!” 就这样,女王玛丽来到了米瑟斯韦特庄园。大概自 出生开始,她还从没有感受过这般“叛逆”的心情。 ·039·