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1、精品文档 查太莱夫人的情人第14章不详查太莱夫人的情人第14章 When she got near the park-gate, she heard the click of the latch. He was there, then, in the darkness of the wood, and had seen her! You are good and early, he said out of the dark. Was everything all right? Perfectly easy. He shut the gate quietly after her, and mad
2、e a spot of light on the dark ground, showing the pallid flowers still standing there open in the night. They went on apart, in silence. Are you sure you didnt hurt yourself this morning with that chair? she asked. No, no! When you had that pneumonia, what did it do to you? Oh nothing! it left my he
3、art not so strong and the lungs not so elastic. But it always does that. And you ought not to make violent physical efforts? Not often. She plodded on in an angry silence. Did you hate Clifford? she said at last. Hate him, no! Ive met too many like him to upset myself hating him. I know beforehand I
4、 dont care for his sort, and I let it go at that. What is his sort? Nay, you know better than I do. The sort of youngish gentleman a bit like a lady, and no balls. What balls? Balls! A mans balls! She pondered this. But is it a question of that? she said, a little annoyed. You say a mans got no brai
5、n, when hes a fool: and no heart, when hes mean; and no stomach when hes a funker. And when hes got none of that spunky wild bit of a man in him, you say hes got no balls. When hes a sort of tame. She pondered this. And is Clifford tame? she asked. Tame, and nasty with it: like most such fellows, wh
6、en you come up against em. And do you think youre not tame? Maybe not quite! At length she saw in the distance a yellow light. She stood still. There is a light! she said. I always leave a light in the house, he said. She went on again at his side, but not touching him, wondering why she was going w
7、ith him at all. He unlocked, and they went in, he bolting the door behind them. As if it were a prison, she thought! The kettle was singing by the red fire, there were cups on the table. She sat in the wooden arm-chair by the fire. It was warm after the chill outside. Ill take off my shoes, they are
8、 wet, she said. She sat with her stockinged feet on the bright steel fender. He went to the pantry, bringing food: bread and butter and pressed tongue. She was warm: she took off her coat. He hung it on the door. Shall you have cocoa or tea or coffee to drink? he asked. I dont think I want anything,
9、 she said, looking at the table. But you eat. Nay, I dont care about it. Ill just feed the dog. He tramped with a quiet inevitability over the brick floor, putting food for the dog in a brown bowl. The spaniel looked up at him anxiously. Ay, this is thy supper, tha nedna look as if tha wouldna get i
10、t! he said. He set the bowl on the stairfoot mat, and sat himself on a chair by the wall, to take off his leggings and boots. The dog instead of eating, came to him again, and sat looking up at him, troubled. He slowly unbuckled his leggings. The dog edged a little nearer. Whats amiss wi thee then?
11、Art upset because theres somebody else here? Thart a female, tha art! Go an eat thy supper. He put his hand on her head, and the bitch leaned her head sideways against him. He slowly, softly pulled the long silky ear. There! he said. There! Go an eat thy supper! Go! He tilted his chair towards the p
12、ot on the mat, and the dog meekly went, and fell to eating. Do you like dogs? Connie asked him. No, not really. Theyre too tame and clinging. He had taken off his leggings and was unlacing his heavy boots. Connie had turned from the fire. How bare the little room was! Yet over his head on the wall h
13、ung a hideous enlarged photograph of a young married couple, apparently him and a bold-faced young woman, no doubt his wife. Is that you? Connie asked him. He twisted and looked at the enl . 上一篇英语： 查太莱夫人的情人第13章下一篇英语： 查太莱夫人的情人第15章查看更多关于英文小说的文章网友同时还浏览了：The Adventures of Huckleberry The Adventures of H
14、uckleberry The Adventures of Huckleberry The Adventures of Huckleberry The Adventures of Huckleberry The Adventures of Huckleberry 不详查太莱夫人的情人第14章argement above his head. Ay! Taken just afore we was married, when I was twenty-one. He looked at it impassively. Do you like it? Connie asked him. Like it
15、? No! I never liked the thing. But she fixed it all up to have it done, like. He returned to pulling off his boots. If you dont like it, why do you keep it hanging there? Perhaps your wife would like to have it, she said. He looked up at her with a sudden grin. She carted off iverything as was worth taking from th ouse, he said. But she left that! Then why do you keep it? for sentimental reasons? Nay, I niver look at it. I
