短篇小说 》 变色龙 Chameleon 》
变色龙 Chameleon
契诃夫 Anton Chekhov
Chameleon
警官奥楚美洛夫穿着新的军大衣，手里拿着个小包，穿过市集的广场。他身后跟着个警察，生着棕红色头发，端着一个粗罗，上面盛着没收来的醋栗，装得满满的。四下里一片寂静。……广场上连人影也没有。小铺和酒店敞开大门，无精打采地面对着上帝创造的这个世界，象是一张张饥饿的嘴巴。店门附近连一个乞弓都没有。
“你竟敢咬人，该死的东西！”奥楚美洛夫忽然听见说话声。“伙计们，别放走它！如今咬人可不行！抓住它！哎哟，……哎哟！”
狗的尖叫声响起来。奥楚美洛夫往那边一看，瞧见商人彼楚京的木柴场里窜出来一条狗，用三条腿跑路，不住地回头看。在它身后，有一个人追出来，穿着浆硬的花布衬衫和敞开怀的坎肩。他紧追那条狗，身子往前一探，扑倒在地，抓住那条狗的后腿。紧跟着又传来狗叫声和人喊声：“别放走它！”带着睡意的脸纷纷从小铺里探出来，不久木柴场门口就聚上一群人，象是从地底下钻出来的一样。
“仿佛出乱子了，官长！……”警察说。
奥楚美洛夫把身子微微往左边一转，迈步往人群那边走过去。在木柴场门口，他看见上述那个敞开坎肩的人站在那儿，举起右手，伸出一根血淋淋的手指头给那群人看。他那张半醉的脸上露出这样的神情：“我要揭你的皮，坏蛋！”而且那根手指头本身就象是一面胜利的旗帜。奥楚美洛夫认出这个人就是首饰匠赫留金。闹出这场乱子的祸首是一条白毛小猎狗，尖尖的脸，背上有一块黄斑，这时候坐在人群中央的地上，前腿劈开，浑身发抖。它那含泪的眼睛里流露出苦恼和恐惧。
“这儿出了什么事？”奥楚美洛夫挤到人群中去，问道。
“你在这儿干什么？你干吗竖起手指头？……是谁在嚷？”
“我本来走我的路，官长，没招谁没惹谁，……”赫留金凑着空拳头咳嗽，开口说。“我正跟米特利·米特利奇谈木柴的事，忽然间，这个坏东西无缘无故把我的手指头咬一口。……请您原谅我，我是个干活的人。……我的活儿细致。这得赔我一笔钱才成，因为我也许一个星期都不能动这根手指头了。……法律上，官长，也没有这么一条，说是人受了畜生的害就该忍着。……要是人人都遭狗咬，那还不如别在这个世界上活着的好。……”
“嗯！……好，……”奥楚美洛夫严厉地说，咳嗽着，动了动眉毛。“好。……这是谁家的狗？这种事我不能放过不管。我要拿点颜色出来叫那些放出狗来闯祸的人看看！现在也该管管不愿意遵守法令的老爷们了！等到罚了款，他，这个混蛋，才会明白把狗和别的畜生放出来有什么下场！我要给他点厉害瞧瞧……叶尔迪陵，”警官对警察说，“你去调查清楚这是谁家的狗，打个报告上来！这条狗得打死才成。不许拖延！这多半是条疯狗。……我问你们：这是谁家的狗？”
“这条狗象是席加洛夫将军家的！”人群里有个人说。
“席加洛夫将军家的？嗯！……你，叶尔迪陵，把我身上的大衣脱下来。……天好热！大概快要下雨了。……只是有一件事我不懂：它怎么会咬你的？”奥楚美洛夫对赫留金说。
“难道它够得到你的手指头？它身子矮小，可是你，要知道，长得这么高大！你这个手指头多半是让小钉子扎破了，后来却异想天开，要人家赔你钱了。你这种人啊……谁都知道是个什么路数！我可知道你们这些魔鬼！”
“他，官长，把他的雪茄烟戳到它脸上去，拿它开心。它呢，不肯做傻瓜，就咬了他一口。……他是个无聊的人，官长！”
“你胡说，独眼龙！你眼睛看不见，为什么胡说？官长是明白人，看得出来谁胡说，谁象当着上帝的面一样凭良心说话。……我要胡说，就让调解法官①审判我好了。他的法律上写得明白。……如今大家都平等了。……不瞒您说，……我弟弟就在当宪兵。………”
“少说废话！”
“不，这条狗不是将军家的，……”警察深思地说。“将军家里没有这样的狗。他家里的狗大半是大猎狗。……”
“你拿得准吗？”
“拿得准，官长。……”
“我自己也知道。将军家里的狗都名贵，都是良种，这条狗呢，鬼才知道是什么东西！毛色不好，模样也不中看，……完全是下贱货。……他老人家会养这样的狗？！你的脑筋上哪儿去了？要是这样的狗在彼得堡或者莫斯科让人碰上，你们知道会怎样？那儿才不管什么法律不法律，一转眼的工夫就叫它断了气！你，赫留金，受了苦，这件事不能放过不管。……得教训他们一下！是时候了。……”
“不过也可能是将军家的狗……”警察把他的想法说出来。“它脸上又没写着。……前几天我在他家院子里就见到过这样一条狗。”
“没错儿，是将军家的！”人群里有人说。
“嗯！……你，叶尔迪陵老弟，给我穿上大衣吧。……好象起风了。……怪冷的。……你带着这条狗到将军家里去一趟，在那儿问一下。……你就说这条狗是我找着，派你送去的。……你说以后不要把它放到街上来。也许它是名贵的狗，要是每个猪猡都拿雪茄烟戳到它脸上去，要不了多久就能把它作践死。狗是娇嫩的动物嘛。……你，蠢货，把手放下来！ 用不着把你那根蠢手指头摆出来！这都怪你自己不好！……”
“将军家的厨师来了，我们来问问他吧。……喂，普罗霍尔！你过来，亲爱的！你看看这条狗。……是你们家的吗？”
“瞎猜！我们那儿从来也没有过这样的狗！”
“那就用不着费很多工夫去问了，”奥楚美洛夫说。“这是条野狗！用不着多说了。……既然他说是野狗，那就是野狗。……弄死它算了。”
“这条狗不是我们家的，”普罗霍尔继续说。“可这是将军哥哥的狗，他前几天到我们这儿来了。我们的将军不喜欢这种狗。他老人家的哥哥却喜欢。……”
“莫非他老人家的哥哥来了？符拉季米尔·伊凡内奇来了？”奥楚美洛夫问，他整个脸上洋溢着动情的笑容。“可了不得，主啊！我还不知道呢！他要来住一阵吧？”
“住一阵。……”
“可了不得，主啊！……他是惦记弟弟了。……可我还不知道呢！那么这是他老人家的狗？很高兴。……你把它带去吧。……这条小狗怪不错的。……挺伶俐。……它把这家伙的手指头咬一口！哈哈哈哈！……咦，你干吗发抖？呜呜，……呜呜。……它生气了，小坏包，……好一条小狗。……”
普罗霍尔把狗叫过来，带着它离开了木柴场。……那群人就对着赫留金哈哈大笑。
“我早晚要收拾你！”奥楚美洛夫对他威胁说，然后把身上的大衣裹一裹紧，穿过市集的广场，径自走了。●
①帝俄时代的保安的法官，只审理小案子。
Chu Austrian police officers wearing the new U.S. military coat Rove, holding a small package, through the market square. Behind him followed by a policeman, students with brown hair, carrying a thick Law, the above container of confiscated gooseberries, packed full. Silence all around. ... ... Square has not even figure. Shop and open the door to the hotel, listlessly face of God in this world, like a picture of hungry mouths. Shop around with a begging bow at all.
"How dare you bite the damn thing!" Love the United States Olympic Chu suddenly heard voices. "Guys, do not let it go! Now can not bite! Grab it! Oh, ... ... Oh!"
Ring, the dog's screams. Chu Austrian side of the U.S. Love to look, saw the wood business field he Chu in Beijing sprang to a dog with three legs at running, could not help looking back. Behind it, a man chasing them, wearing a starched cloth shirt and open waistcoat pregnant. His hot pursuit of the dog, to explore the body forward, throwing himself to the ground, grasp the dog's hind legs. Followed came the dogs barking and people shouting: "Do not let it go!" With a sleepy face probe have come from the small shop, near the entrance to gather firewood on the field a group of people, Xiangshi Cong out of the underground drilling the same.
"It seems like something going wrong, the officers! ... ..." The police said.
U.S. Olympic Chu leaned slightly to the left of the Love of a turn, to go to the people over there to pass. Field in the wood door, he saw the man that stood open waistcoat, raised his right hand, stretched out a bloody finger to the crowd to see. He goes on half-drunk's face look like: "I want to expose your skin, bad!" And the finger itself is like a side of the Flanagan victory banner. Chu recognized U.S. Olympic Love jewelry maker He is the man to stay gold. Sudden, the culprit of this trouble is a white fur the dog, pointed face, the back has a yellow spot, this time the crowd sat in the center of the ground, front legs split and trembling. It reveals that tears in the eyes of anguish and fear.
"What happened here?" Austrian Chu Rove pushed the crowd to the United States, asked.
"What are you doing here? Why put up your finger? ... ... Who is crying?"
"I was walking my way, the officials who did not recruit who did not provoke, ... ..." He left an empty fist gold Couzhao cough, speak. "I was told 米特利米特 Leach something about the wood, suddenly, the bad thing for no reason to bite my finger. ... ... Please forgive me, I am a working person. ... I live ... children carefully. This sum of money before I have to pay into, because I might not move for a week This is the root of the finger. ... ... law, the officials are not so one, said people were on the beast's victims hold on. ... ... If everyone were dog bites, in that case do not live in this world of good. ... ... "
"Ah! ... ... Well, ... ..." Love the United States Olympic Chu said sternly, coughing, moved his eyebrows. "Good. ... ... This is someone's dog? Such a thing I can not let go no matter what. I want to get some color out of trouble call to those who let the dog look! Now paying attention to the lords do not want to comply with the Act it! penalty has been made to wait until he, the son of a bitch, will understand the dogs and other animals let out what end! I want to give him some powerful look ... ... Jordi Ling Ye, "said the police officers," You to investigate clear that this is someone's dog, make a report up! dog had killed it a success. must not delay! that most of it is a mad dog. ... ... I ask you: This is someone's dog? "
"The dog is like a Xijialuofu general home!" Crowd, someone said.
"Xijialuofu general home? Ah! ... ... You, Jordi Ling Ye, to me the coat off. ... ... Days so hot! Probably going to rain. ... ... Just one thing I do not know: how it will bite you? "Love on the U.S. Olympic Chu He left King said.
"Is it enough to get your fingers? Its small body, but you, you know, grow so tall! You this mostly for the small finger nail puncture, and later was fantastic, you have to pay people money. You Such people, ah ... ... Everyone knows that is what large ones! I know you devil! "
"He, the officials put his cigar to poked its face, carries it happy. It then refused to make a fool to bit him. ... ... He is a boring person, the officers!"
"You're talking nonsense, one-eyed! Your eyes can not see why the nonsense? Officers are sensible, I can see who is talking nonsense, who is the same as the front face of God speaking our minds. ... ... I want to nonsense, let the mediation trial judge ① I'm fine. His law written to understand. ... ... Now we have an equality. ... ... Upon my honor you say ... ... my brother in when the military police. ... ... ... "
"Talk nonsense!"
"No, the dog is not a general home, ... ..." the police said thoughtfully. "The general is no such dog at home. Most of his family is big hound dog. ... ..."
"You were sure that it?"
"Were sure that the rulers. ... ..."
"I know it themselves. General luxury dog house, all varieties, dog it, know what it is downright genius! Coat color is not good, appearance is not seen, is entirely under the bitch ... .... ... ... He elderly people will keep this dog?! your brain on where to go? If this dog run into people in St. Petersburg or Moscow, you know what? there was no matter what the law is not law, a fraction of the effort called it broken gas! you, He left gold, suffered a bitter, it can not let go no matter what. ... ... have to teach them about! is the time. ... ... "
"But it may be the general dog ... ..." The police say his ideas. "It was not any written on his face. ... ... A few days ago I was in his yard to have seen such a dog."
"Yes child, is the general home!" Said someone in the crowd.
"Ah! ... ... You, Ye Ling brother Jordi, I coat it. ... ... Seems The wind rises. ... ... Be cold. ... ... You take the dog to the generals to go home, in the where to ask. ... ... you say my dog found it, send you sent to the. ... ... you say this will not put it in the street. Perhaps it is a valuable dog, and if pigs are to take each Cigar Smoke poked its face to go, or how long it will be able to spoil death. dogs are delicate animals now. ... ... you, fool, put your arms down! do not need to put your fingers out of Flanagan stupid! it your fault their own good! ... ... "
"The general came home cook, we'll ask him. ... ... Hey, the ordinary Hall! You come, my dear! You look at the dog. ... ... Is your family do?"
"Shot in the dark! Where we never had such a dog!"
"That need not cost a lot of work to ask it," Rove said the United States Olympic Chu. "Is this the stray dog! Need not say anything. ... ... Since he said that wild dogs, wild dogs that is. ... Forget it ... kill it."
"The dog is not our home," Hall continued the general. "But this is the general brother's dog a few days before he came to us here. Our generals do not like this dog. He was like old brother. ... ..."
"Could it be his brother to the elderly? Meet Vladimir Ivanitch quarter pull here?" Love asked the U.S. Olympic Chu, his whole face filled with emotion smile. "But the not, the main ah! I did not know! He wants to stay a while, right?"
"For a while. ... ..."
"Shall not be a, ah Lord! ... ... He is always thinking about my little brother. ... ... But I do not know yet! So this is his old dog? Very happy. ... ... You take it go. ... ... This small strange dog good. ... ... very clever. ... ... this guy's finger is a bite! ha ha ha ha! ... ... Hey, why do you tremble? hum, hum ... .... ... ... it is angry, small bad package , ... ... good for a puppy. ... ... "
Hall came to the general dog, take it out of the wood market. ... ... Group of people to stay in front of He Jin laughed.
"I'll _set_tle with you sooner or later!" Austrian Chu said the U.S. threat to him, Rove, and then wrapped the body of the coat of a bind tightly through the market square, went away. ●
① Russia security era judges, heard only a small case.
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