(雙語)月亮和六便士 第55章(8)

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Ata flung herself on her knees before him, and clasped his legs with her arms and kissed them. Strickland looked at Dr. Coutras with a faint smile.

愛塔一下子跪在他的腳下，兩臂抱緊他的雙腿，拼命地吻他。思特里克蘭德看著庫特拉斯醫(yī)生，臉上帶著一絲微笑。

"In the end they get you, and you are helpless in their hands. White or brown, they are all the same."

“最后他們還是要把你抓住，你怎么掙扎也白費力氣。白種人也好，棕種人也好，到頭來都是一樣的。”

Dr. Coutras felt that it was absurd to offer expressions of regret in so terrible a disaster, and he took his leave. Strickland told Tane, the boy, to lead him to the village. Dr. Coutras paused for a moment, and then he addressed himself to me.

庫特拉斯醫(yī)生覺得對于這種可怕的疾病說一些同情的話是很荒唐的，他決定告辭。思特里克蘭德叫那個名叫塔耐的男孩子給他領路，帶他回村子去。說到這里，庫特拉斯醫(yī)生停了一會兒。最后他對我說：

"I did not like him, I have told you he was not sympathetic to me, but as I walked slowly down to Taravao I could not prevent an unwilling admiration for the stoical courage which enabled him to bear perhaps the most dreadful of human afflictions. When Tane left me I told him I would send some medicine that might be of service; but my hope was small that Strickland would consent to take it, and even smaller that, if he did, it would do him good. I gave the boy a message for Ata that I would come whenever she sent for me. Life is hard, and Nature takes sometimes a terrible delight in torturing her children. It was with a heavy heart that I drove back to my comfortable home in Papeete."

“我不喜歡他，我已經(jīng)告訴過你，我對他沒有什么好感。但是在我慢慢走回塔拉窩村的路上，我對他那種自我克制的勇氣卻不由自主地產(chǎn)生了敬佩之情。他忍受的也許是一種最可怕的疾病。當塔耐和我分手的時候，我告訴他我會送一些藥去，對他的疾病也許會有點兒好處。但是我也知道，思特里克蘭德是多半不肯服我送去的藥的，至于這種藥——即使他服了——有多大效用，我就更不敢希望了。我讓那孩子給愛塔帶了個話，不管她什么時候需要我，我都會去的。生活是嚴酷的，大自然有時候竟以折磨自己的兒女為樂趣，在我坐上馬車駛回我在帕皮提的溫暖的家庭時，我的心是沉重的。”

For a long time none of us spoke.

很長一段時間，我們誰都沒有說話。