Chapter19 “It Has Come!“它来了-双语名著无障碍阅读丛书——《秘密花园The Secret Garden》

ChapterXIX "It HasCome!" Of course Dr, Craven had been sent for the morning after Colin had had his tantrum. He was always sent for at once when such a thing occurred and he always found, when he arrived, a white shaken boy lying on his bed, sulky^{} and still so hvsterical that he was ready to break into fresh sobbing at the least word In fact. Dr. Craven dreaded and detested the difficulties of these visits. On this occasion he was away from Misselthwaite Manor until afternoon “How is he?" he asked Mrs. Medlock rather irritably when he arrived. "He will break a blood-vessel in one of those fits some day. The boy is half insane{②} with hysteria and self-indulgence③." “Well, sir," answered Mrs. Medlock, "you'll scarcely believe your eyes when you see him. That plain sour-faced child that's almost as bad as himself has just bewitched him. How she's done it there's no telling. The Lord knows she's nothing to look at and you scarcely ever hear her speak, but she did what none of us dare do. She just flew at him like a little cat last night, and stamped her feet and ordered him to stop screaming, and somehow she startled him so that he actually did stop, and this afternoon - well just come up and see, sir .330. “它来了! 第十九章 可想而知,那天早上,当柯林大发了一番脾气之后, 人们便将柯菜文医生请了过来。每当这样的事情发生之 后,他总会在第一时间被人叫到这里来,而每当他进门 ①sulky salkila.生气的 的时候,也总会看见一个面色苍白、瑟瑟发抖的男孩躺 郁郁不乐的 在床上,面色阴郁,一副歇斯底里的样子,仿佛谁再说 一句话他就会再次哭出声来。事实上,柯莱文先生每次 过来的时候总是提心吊胆的,其至十分痛恨这样的出 诊。这一次,他在距离米瑟斯韦特庄园很远的地方,直 ② insane fin'sein]a. 精神失 到下午才媚来迟。 常的:精神错乱的 “他怎么样了?”进门的时候,他颇有几分烦躁地 ③ self-indulgence f'selfin- 询问着麦德洛克夫人,“总有一天,他得把自已的血管 'dAldgans]n.自我放纵 弄破。那个男孩就是半个疯子,歇斯底里又自我放纵。” “怎么说呢,先生,”麦德洛克夫人回答,“你等会 儿见到他的时候肯定不能相信自已的眼睛。那个几乎跟 他一样招人讨厌,长得也一副不讨喜样子的小孩儿刚刚 给他下了咒。谁都不知道她是怎么做到的。天知道,她 长得一点儿也不好看,你一天也听不见她说上两句话 但是她做的那些事儿却是我们都不敢做的。昨天晚上 她就像只小野猫似的跟他吵起来了,还一边跺脚一边让 他不要再尖叫了,也不知道是怎么回事,他就让她吓着 了,还真闭了嘴,到了今天下午--您就自已过来看看 .331· ChapterX/X "It Hfas Come!" It's past crediting." The scene which Dr. Craven beheld when he entered his patient's room was indeed rather astonishing to him. As Mrs. Medlock opened the door he heard laughing and chattering. Colin was on his sofa in his dressing-gown and he was sitting up quite straight looking at a picture in one of the garden books and talking to the plain child who at that moment could scarcely be called plain at all because her face was so glowing with enjoyment "Those long spires^{} of blue ones - we'll have a lot of those,"Colin was announcing."They're called Del-phin-iums^{②}." "Dickon says they're larkspurs made big and grand," cried Mistress Mary. "There are clumps there already." Then they saw Dr. Craven and stopped. Mary became quite still and Colir looked fretful. "I am sorry to hear you were ill last night, my boy," Dr. Craven said a trifle nervously. He was rather a nervous man. “I'm better now--much better."Colin answered. rather like a Rajah. "I'm going out in my chair in a day or two if it is fine. I want some fresh air." Dr. Craven sat down by him and felt his pulse and looked at him curiously "It must be a very fine day," he said, "and you must be very careful not to tire yourself." “Fresh air won't tire me."said the young Rajah As there had been occasions when this same young gentleman had shrieked aloud with rage and had insisted that fresh air would give him cold and kill him it is not to be wondered at that his doctor felt somewhat startled "I thought you did not like fresh air."he said "I don't when I am by myself," replied the Rajah: "but my cousin is going out with me." “And the nurse, of course?" suggested Dr. Craven .332. 第十九章 “它来了!” 吧,先生。我都不敢相信。” 当柯菜文先生走进病人房间的时候,眼前的场景真 叫他生生吃了一惊。麦德洛克夫人刚一将门推开,里面 便传来了笑声和肌机嘹嘹的说话声。柯林穿着睡袍坐在 沙发上,后背居然是挺直的,他正一面看着一本园艺书 上的图片,一面同那个五官平庸的孩子说着话。可是在 那一刻,你却很难说她是平庸的,因为她的整张面孔都 正因着喜悦而焕发光彩 ① spire I'spaialn. (植物的) “那些长长的蓝色甥旋状尖芽--我们的花园里也 幼叶,新芽,纤梗 ② delphinium [del'finiom]n. 会长出好多好多的,”柯林宣布道,“它们叫飞燕草。” 飞燕草 “迪康说了,这些飞燕草会长得又大又壮观,”女 王玛丽大声说道,“现在就已经是一丛一丛的了。” 下一刻,他们看到柯菜文医生来了便停了下来。玛 丽变得非常安静,柯林则是一脸的烦躁。 “听说你昨天晚上病了,我的孩子,我很难过。” 柯莱文医生带着一丝紧张说道。他一直都是一个小心翼 翼的人。 “我现在好了--好多了,”柯林回答,语气颇像 是一位王爷,“若是可以的话,这两天我就会坐着轮椅 出去走走。我想要呼吸一点儿新鲜空气。” 柯菜文先生在他身边坐下,为他把了把脉,随后便 好奇地打量着他。 “那可一定得选个好天气,”他说,“而且你一定要 小心,千万不能累着自己。” “新鲜空气不会累到我。”小王爷这样说道 正是眼前这位年轻的绅士曾在以前无数次愤怒地大 吼大叫,还坚持认为新鲜空气会让他感冒,让他丢掉性 命,因此,他的医生此时感到万分震惊便也不足为奇了。 “我以为你讨厌新鲜空气。”他说。 “我自己一个人待着的时候确实讨厌,”王爷回答 道,“但是我的表妹会跟我一起出去。” “看护也会跟着你们一起去的,对吧?”柯菜文先 生暗示道。 ·333· ChapterX/X "It Hfas Come!" "No, I will not have the nurse," so magnificently that Mary could not help remembering how the young native Prince had looked with his diamonds and emeralds and pearls stuck all over him and the great rubies on the small dark hand he had waved to command his servants to approach with salaams and receive his orders “My cousin knows how to take care of me. I am always better when she is with me. She made me better last night. A very strong boy I know will push my carriage." Dr. Craven felt rather alarmed. If this tiresome hysterical boy should chance to get well he himself would lose all chance of inheriting Misselthwaite but he was not an unscrupulous^{①} man, though he was a weak one, and he did not intend to let him run into actual danger “He must be a strong boy and a steady boy,"he said. “And I must know something about him. Who is he? What is his name?" "lt's Dickon." Mary spoke up suddenly. She felt somehow that everybody who knew the moor must know Dickon. And she was right. too. She saw that in a moment Dr. Craven's serious face relaxed into a relieved smile “Oh, Dickon," he said. "If it is Dickon you will be safe enough. He's as strong as a moor pony, is Dickon." “And he's trusty."said Mary. "He's th' trustiest lad i'Yorkshire."She hac been talking Yorkshire to Colin and she forgot herself. "Did Dickon teach you that?" asked Dr. Craven, laughing outright "I'm learning it as if it was French," said Mary rather coldly. "It's like a native dialect in India. Very clever people try to learn them. I like it and so does Colin.""Well, well." he said. "If it amuses you perhaps it won't do you any harm. Did you take your bromide②} last night, Colin?" "No."Colin answered. "I wouldn't take it at first and after Mary made me quiet she talked me to sleep - in a low voice - about the spring creeping intc a garden." .334: 第十九章 “它来了!” “不会,我不会带着看护的。”柯林说出这话的时 候颇有气势,这令玛丽不仅想起了那位年轻的印度小王 子:他浑身上下挂着许许多多的钻石、辈翠和珍珠,那 双黑黑的小手上还戴着一颗巨大的红宝石,他挥一挥 手,便会有仆人行着额手礼凑上前来,聆听他的盼咐。 “我的表妹知道怎么照顾我。有她在的时候,我总 会觉得舒服一点儿。昨天晚上她就让我好多了。还有一 个我认识的男孩会帮我推着轮椅,他很结实的。” 柯菜文医生的心里很是警觉。假若这个歇斯底里又 惹人讨厌的男孩有机会好转起来的话,那么他就全然没 有机会继承米瑟斯韦特庄园了。然而,他并不是一个不 ① unscrupulous I.An'skru:- 择手段的人,尽管柯林很是虚弱,但他也没打算真的让 pjulas]a.无耻的:肆无 他陷入危险。 忌惮的 “他一定要是一个强壮的男孩,还要很稳重,”他 说,“我也有一些事情需要了解。他是谁?叫什么名字?” “是迪康。”玛丽突然开口了。不知怎的,她总是 觉得,只要是知道那片旷野的人都会认识迪康。这种想 法也是对的。她看到柯菜文先生那张原本还有些严肃的 面孔不一会儿便放松下来,还露出了释然的微笑 “哦,迪康啊,”他说,“如果是迪康的话,那你肯 定不会发生什么危险的。他就像旷野上的小马骑一样强 壮,这个迪康。” “他还很可信,”玛丽补充道,“他可是整个约克郡 最值得信任的小伙儿嘲。”她本就正在用约克郡方言同 柯林说着话,这会儿便有些忘乎所以了。 “这是迪康教你的吗?”柯菜文医生立马笑出了声, 随后这样问道。 “我就当它是法语一样在学,”玛丽冷冰冰地回答 ② bromide ['braumaid] n. “这就像是一种印度方言,非常聪明的人才会去学。我 【药物】澳化钾镇静剂 很喜欢这种话,柯林也喜欢。” “好吧,好吧,”他说,“要是这能让你开心的话, 大概也不会有什么坏处。你昨天晚上服用镇静剂了吗 柯林?” ·335· ChapterX/X "It Hfas Come!" "That sounds soothing^{①}," said Dr. Craven, more perplexed than ever and glancing sideways at Mistress Mary sitting on her stool and looking down silently at the carpet. "You are evidently better, but you must remember -" "I don't want to remember,"interrupted the Rajah, appearing again. “When I lie by myself and remember I begin to have pains everywhere and I think of things that make me begin to scream because I hate them so. If there was a doctor anywhere who could make you forget you were ill instead of remembering it I would have him brought here."And he waved a thin hand which ought really to have been covered with roval signet{}rings made of rubies. "It is because my cousin makes me forget that she makes me better." Dr. Craven had never made such a short stay after a "tantrum": usually he was obliged to remain a very long time and do a great many things. This afternoon he did not give any medicine or leave any new orders and he was spared③} any disagreeable scenes. When he went downstairs he looked very thoughtful and when he talked to Mrs. Medlock in the library she felt that he was a much puzzled man "Well. sir." she ventured, "could you have believed it?" "It is certainly a new state of affairs." said the doctor. “And there's no denying it is better than the old one." "I believe Susan Sowerby's right -I do that." said Mrs. Medlock. "I stopped in her cottage on my way to Thwaite yesterday and had a bit of talk with her. And she says to me,'Well. Sarah Ann, she mayn't be a good child. an she mayn't be a pretty one, but she's a child, an' children needs children.' We .336 第十九章 “它来了!“1 ① soothing I'su:oinla. 安题 “没有,”柯林回答,“一开始是我不愿意吃,后来 的;安慰性的 玛丽就让我安静下来了,还一直说着话哄我睡觉一声 音很小--给我讲春天是怎样溜进花园里的。” “听上去还是挺有安抚作用的。”柯菜文医生说道。 他感到无比地困惑,便斜眼打量着女王玛丽,见她正坐 在脚凳上,一言不发地低头看着地毯。“你看上去明显 好多了,但是一定要记得-” “我不想记得,”小王爷再次出现了,打断了他的 话,“每当我自己一个人躺在床上,记得这个记得那个 ②signet I'signit]n.(私人) 的时候,我就会觉得到处都很疼,还会开始琢磨那些让 印章,小图章 我忍不住想要尖叫的事情,因为那些东西实在是太讨厌 了。要是有哪位医生能让你忘记自己正在生病这件事 而不是时时刻刻提醒你记得的话,那我一定立刻就把他 请过来。”之后,他挥了挥自已那瘦弱的小手,玛丽觉得 ③ spare [spes]v.避免,省 上面真是应该戴上一个红宝石做的戒指。“我的表妹之 去 所以能让我觉得不那么难受,是因为她能让我忘记我自 己是个病人。” 柯菜文医生从未在柯林一通“脾气”之后这样快便 得以离开,通常情况下,他都要待上许久,做上许多事。 这天下午,他既没开药,也没提出什么新的吟咐,甚至 就连不愉快的场面都没有看到一个。下楼的时候,他满 面沉思,而当麦德洛克夫人在图书室同他说话的时候 也察觉出了他的满心疑惑。 “呃,先生,”她小心翼翼地说道,“你能相信这是 真的吗?” “这无疑是一种从前没有出现过的情况,”医生回 答,“但不能否认,这种状态确实是要好过以前的。” “我觉得苏珊·索尔比的话是对的-一我确实这么 觉得。”麦德洛克夫人说道,“昨天我去新开地的时候顺 道去了一趟她的小屋,还和她聊了一会儿。她跟我说: 怎么说呢,萨拉·安,她或许并不是个好孩子,就连 漂亮都说不上,但她到底还是个小孩儿,小孩儿需要和 .337· Chapter X/X "It Hfas Come!" went to school together, Susan Sowerby and me." "She's the best sick nurse I know," said Dr. Craven. "When I find her in a cottage I know the chances are that I shall save my patient." Mrs. Medlock smiled. She was fond of Susan Sowerby "She's got a way with her, has Susan," she went on quite volubly{}. "I've been thinking all morning of one thing she said yesterday. She says, 'Once when I was givin' th' children a bit of a preach{②}after they'd been fightin' I ses to'em all. "When I was at school my jography told as th' world was shaped like a orange an' I found out before I was ten that th' whole orange doesn't belong to nobody. No one owns more than his bit of a quarter an' there's times it seems like there's not enow quarters to go round. But don't you -none o'you- think as you own th' whole orange or you'll find out you're mistaken, an' you won't find it out without hard knocks{③." 'What children learns from children,' she says, 'is that there's no sense in grabbin' at th' whole orange - peel^{} an' all. If you do you'll likely not get even th' pips^{}, an' them's too bitter to eat." “She's a shrewd{}woman."said Dr. Craven, putting on his coat “Well, she's got a way of saying things."ended Mrs. Medlock, much pleased. "Sometimes I've said to her, 'Eh! Susan, if you was a different woman an' didn't talk such broad Yorkshire I've seen the times when I should have said you was clever." That night Colin slept without once awakening and when he opened his eyes in the morning he lay still and smiled without knowing it- smiled because he felt so curiously comfortable, It was actually nice to be awake, and he turned over and stretched his limbs luxuriously. He felt as if tight strings which had held him had loosened themselves and let him go. He did not know that Dr Craven would have said that his nerves had relaxed and rested themselves Instead of lying and staring at the wall and wishing he had not awakened. his .338. 第十九章 “它来了!“) 其他小孩儿在一起。'我俩原来是同学,我和苏珊·索 尔比。” “她是我见过的最好的看护,”柯菜文医生应道 “若是能在哪间农舍里看见她,我便能确定,这个病人 一定能活下去。” ① volubly I'voljubli] ad. 健 谈地 麦德洛克夫人笑了。她很喜欢苏珊·索尔比 “她总有自已的法子,我说苏珊,”她颇为健谈地 ②preach [pri:tf]n. 说教, 训诚 继续道,“她昨天说的一件事情已经让我琢磨了一个早 晨了。她说:有一回啊,孩子们打起来了,我教训了 他们,我说:“我上学的时候,地理老师就跟我们说 地球的形状就跟个橙子似的,因此我还不到十岁就明白 了,这个橙子不属于任何一个人。没有谁能多拿一块儿。 有的时候吧,这一整个橙子好像还不够分。但是,你 们不能-一谁也不能-一觉得这个橙子就是你的了,不 ③hard knocks不幸,困苦. 挫折 然你肯定会发现是你自已想错了,不过发现这个道理的 ④peel [pi:l]n.(水果、蔬菜。 过程中肯定也会有些磕磕碰碰。”她还说啊,‘孩子能 嫩枝等的)皮 pipIpipln.(苹果、橘子。 够教会彼此的一点,就是连皮儿带肉霸着整个橙子是没 梨等)果仁,种子 有意义的。要是你非得这么干的话,搞不好连个籽儿都 shrewd [fru:d]a. 精明的 拿不到,籽儿吃起来也太苦了些。'” “她是个精明的女人。”柯菜文医生一面套上大衣 一面这样说道。 “嗯,她是挺会说话的。”麦德洛克夫人愉快地总 结道,“有的时候,我就会跟她说:·哎呀!苏珊,但凡 你不是现在这个样子,也没有这么重的约克郡口音,我 肯定会不止一次地夸你聪明。'” 这天夜里,柯林一次都没有醒来,一觉便睡到了第 二天早晨,而睁开双眼的时候,他还不自觉地躺在床上 笑了起来一-因为他感到出奇地舒服。醒过来的感觉竟 然很棒,他翻了个身,尽情地舒展着四肢。柯林觉得 那些曾经将他紧紧束缚住的线绳已然松了开来,他又自 由了。他不知道用柯莱文医生的话说这都是因为他紧卿 的神经松懈下来,开始休息了。此时此刻,他不再躺在 床上,盯着墙壁,希望自已还在沉睡;相反,他满脑子 .339·