《 ān nà · kǎ liè níng nà》 shì wén xué zhōng xī shì de guī bǎo， yě shì shì jiè yì shù bǎo kù zhōng cuǐ càn duó mùdì míng zhū。
xiǎo shuō zhōng yòu liǎng tiáo píng xíng de xiàn suǒ， dāng shí yòu rén shuō tā méi yòu“ jiàn zhù shù”， yòu rén shuō tā shì“ liǎng bù xiǎo shuō”。 zuò zhě wěi wǎn dì jù jué liǎo zhè xiē pī píng。 tā shuō， gāi shū jié gòu zhī miào zhèng zài yú yuán gǒng xián jiē dé tiān yī wúfèng héng héng liǎng tiáo xiàn suǒ yòu“ nèi zài de lián xì”。 duì cǐ zhòng shuō fēn yún。 yǐ wǒ kàn， zhǐ de shì yòu yī gè tǒng yī de zhù tí， jí dāng shí zī běn zhù yì xùn měng fā zhǎn dài lái de、 zuò zhě suǒ rèn wéi de zāinàn xìng de hòu guǒ： yī fāng miàn shì guì zú shòu zī chǎn jiē jí sī xiǎng qīn shí， zài jiā tíng、 hūn yīn děng dào dé lún lǐ guān niàn fāng miàn fā shēng jī liè biàn huà， juàn shǒu“ ào bù lóng sī jī jiā lǐ yī qiēdōu hùn luàn liǎo” yī yǔ yòu xiàng zhēng yì yì； lìng yī fāng miàn shì nóng yè shòu zī běn zhù yì pò huài， guó jiā miàn lín jīng jì fā zhǎn de dào lù wèn tí， yě jiù shì liè wén shuō de：“ yī qiēdōu fān liǎo yī gè shēn， yī qiēdōu gāng gāng kāi shǐ 'ān pái。” yǐ 'ān nà wéi zhōng xīn de xiàn suǒ（ bāo kuò 'ào bù lóng sī jī、 kǎ liè níng、 fú lóng sī jī yǐ zhì xiè 'ěr bā cí jī děng jiā zú） hé liè wén de xiàn suǒ， fēn bié biǎo xiàn liǎo zhè liǎng fāng miàn de wèn tí。
xiàn yú piān fú， xià miàn zhǐ jiǎn dān dì tán tán nán nǚ liǎng wèi zhù rén gōng yǐ jí yòu guān chuàng zuò yì shù de diǎn dī kàn fǎ。
xiǎo shuō yǐ 'ān nà · kǎ liè níng nà mìng míng， tā de xíng xiàng zài xiǎo shuō zhōng què shí jū yú zhōng xīn de wèi zhì。 ān nà bù jǐn tiān shēng lì zhì， guāng yàn duó rén， ér qiě chún zhēn、 chéng shí、 duān zhuāng、 cōng huì， hái yòu yī gè“ fù zá 'ér yòu shī yì de nèi xīn shì jiè”。 kě shì tā yù rén bù shū， nián qīng shí yóu gū mǔ zuò zhù， jià gěi yī gè tóu nǎo jiāng huà、 sī xiǎng bǎo shǒu、 xū wěi chéng xìng bìng qiě méi yòu huó rén gǎn qíng de guān liáo kǎ liè níng。 zài hūn hòu bā nián jiān， tā céng nǔ lì qù 'ài zhàng fū hé 'ér zǐ。 ér xiàn zài yóu yú“ shì fēng rì biàn”， hūn yīn zì yóu de sī xiǎng jī qǐ liǎo zhè gè gǔ jǐng zhī shuǐ de bō lán。 yǔ fú lóng sī jī de xiè hòu， chóngxīn huàn xǐng liǎo tā duì shēng huó de zhuī qiú。 tā yào“ shēng huó”， yě jiù shì yào 'ài qíng。 tā zhōng yú kuà yuè liǎo lǐ jiào de fán lí。 zuò wéi yǐ hūn de duān zhuāng de fù nǚ， yào kuà chū zhè yī bù， xū yào yòu hěn dà de jué xīn hé yǒng qì， suī zé zài dāng shí shàng liú shè huì sī tōng yǐ sī kōng jiàn guàn liǎo。 dàn tā de yǒng qì zhù yào zài yú， bù yuàn yǔ wú chǐ de guì zú fù nǚ tóng liú hé wū， bù yuàn xiàng tā men nà yàng cháng qī qī piàn zhàng fū， yì rán bǎ 'ài mèi de guān xì gōng kāi。 zhè bù chì xiàng shàng liú shè huì tiǎo zhàn， cóng 'ér bù jiàn róng yú shàng liú shè huì， tóng shí yě shòu dào kǎ liè níng de cán kù bào fù： jì bù dāyìng tā lí hūn， yòu bù ràng tā qīn jìn 'ài zǐ。 tā tú rán zhēngzhá， céng wéi 'ài qíng 'ér xī shēng mǔ 'ài， kě zhè 'ài qíng yòu chéng liǎo jìng huā shuǐ yuè。 tā zhōng yú yuè lái yuè shēn dì xiàn rù bēi jù de mìng yùn。
bù guò， suī shuō zào chéng tā de bēi jù de shì bāo kuò kǎ liè níng、 fú lóng sī jī zài nèi de shàng liú shè huì， ān nà zuò wéi bēi jù rén wù， běn shēn yě bù shì méi yòu“ guò cuò”； zài shuō tā de xìng gé hòu lái hái fā shēng liǎo lìng rén wǎn xī de biàn huà。 zhè wèi liú lǐ kè wáng shì de hòu yì， shòu shí dài de xǐ lǐ 'ér gǎn yú wéi“ shēng huó” ér tóng shè huì kàng zhēng， dàn tā zì jǐ què wèi néng wán quán zhèng tuō jiù sī xiǎng yì shí de zhì gù， tā bù jǐn yī zài duì kǎ liè níng huái yòu fù zuì gǎn， ér qiě yě bù néng gē duàn tóng shàng liú shè huì de xuè yuán guān xì， yīn cǐ yǐ jiàn zhú yú tā 'ér gǎn dào wú dì zì róng。 shí jì shàng tā yě méi yòu zhēn zhèng xué huì 'ài。 tóng fú lóng sī jī de yī jiàn zhōng qíng， sì hū yīn tā kāng kǎi hǎo shī， zhù yào què shì qīng xīn yú tā de yí biǎo、 fēng dù， chū yú zì jǐ wàng shèng de shēng mìng lì de zì fā yào qiú， bìng bù jī yú gòng tóng de sī xiǎng gǎn qíng。 zhè zhǒng 'ài qíng shì máng mùdì， shí jì shàng jīhū quán shì qíng yù， ér qíng yù shì nán yǐ chí jiǔ de。 fú lóng sī jī chū shí wèile xū róng xīn 'ér liè zhú tā， yī dù yīn 'ān nà de zhēn zhì de 'ài 'ér biàn dé yán sù zhuān yī， dàn bù jiǔ jiù yīn gōng míng zhī xīn de rú dòng 'ér yàn qì tā。 ér 'ān nà bǎ 'ài qíng dāng zuò zhěng gè shēng huó， chén nì qí zhōng， yào fú lóng sī jī yǔ tā zhāoxī sī shǒu yī qǐ， shèn zhì gān wéi tā de“ wú tiáo jiàn de nú lì”。 yú shì tā de jīng shén pǐn zhì jiàn jiàn shī qù liǎo guāng cǎi。 wèile chóngxīn huàn qǐ fú lóng sī jī de 'ài， jìng bù xī yǐ zī sè de mèi lì biān zhì“ ài qíng de wǎng”， bìng qiě zhú jiàn xí guàn yú“ xū wěi hé qī piàn de jīng shén”。 zuì hòu， tā de 'ài yuè lái yuè zì sī， yǐ zhì zài“ bù mǎn zú” shí biàn chéng liǎo hèn。 bù guò， wǒ men bù néng yīn cǐ 'ér zé bèi 'ān nà， xū zhī tā shēng huó zài lì shǐ de zhuǎn zhé shí qī。 rú guǒ shuō tā tóng shè huì de wài zài máo dùn， shì yóu yú xīn shì wù shòu jiù shì wù yā zhì， nà me， tā zì shēn de máo dùn， zé shì xīn méng fā de yì shí wèi néng zhàn shèng gēn shēn dì gù de jiù yì shí。 hé kuàng dāng shí néng dài tì jiù de dào dé guān niàn de xīn guān niàn shàng wèi xíng chéng。 yīn cǐ kě yǐ shuō， tā shēn shàng jí zhōng liǎo shí dài de gè zhǒng máo dùn。 tā de zì shā， cóng zhù guān shàng shuō shì xún qiú jiě tuō， yě shì duì fú lóng sī jī de bào fù jí duì shàng liú shè huì de； kè guān shàng zé shì yóu yú jí zhōng liǎo gè zhǒng shí dài de máo dùn 'ér wú fǎ kè fú， cóng 'ér wú kě bì miǎn dì chéng wéi zhè gè zhuǎn zhé shí qī jì tán de xī shēng。 zhè zhǒng bì rán xìng biǎo míng liǎo 'ān nà bēi jù de shēn dù。
liè wén yě shì shēn kè máo dùn de rén wù。 tā bǐ shì bǐ dé bǎo de gōng tíng guì zú， què yǐ chū shēn shì xí guì zú 'ér zì háo； tā bù mǎn yú shàng liú shè huì de huāng yín hé xū wěi， què rèn wéi shē chǐ shì guì zú de běn fēn； tā fǎn duì yǐ nóng nú zhì de“ gùn zǐ” yā zhì nóng mín， què yòu xiàng wǎng yú guì zú de gǔ fēng jiù xí； tā yàn 'è zī běn zhù yì bìng fǒu dìng zī běn zhù yì zài fā zhǎn de bì rán xìng， dàn tā zì jǐ de nóng yè jīng yíng xiǎn rán shì zī běn zhù yì fāng shì； tā duàn yán zī chǎn jiē jí suǒ dé de shì“ bù yì zhī cái”， ér zì jǐ què hé láo dòng zhě jìn xíng“ cán kù de” dǒu zhēng。 zhè xiē zhèng shì zhè wèi“ yòu xīn líng”、 yòu dào dé gǎn qíng de guì zú zài lì shǐ zhuǎn zhé shí qī 'ér bèi duì lì shǐ fā zhǎn suǒ bì rán chǎn shēng de sī xiǎng máo dùn。
yǔ 'ān nà bù tóng， liè wén kě yǐ shuō shì huò dé liǎo zhēn zhèng de 'ài qíng hé jiā tíng de xìng fú。 rán 'ér， liáng xīn de tòng kǔ zài zhé mó zhe tā， zài zì jǐ fù yù tóng rén mín pín kùn duì bǐ xià， tā shēn shēn bào yòu fù zuì gǎn。 zhǐ shì tā bù tóng yú yī bān de chàn huǐ guì zú， tā jī jí tàn suǒ tóng rén mín jiē jìn de dào lù， bìng tàn suǒ tōng guò“ bù liúxiě de” yǐ dá dào yǔ nóng mín hé zuò、 gòng tóng fù yù de dào lù。 zhè zhǒng lì shǐ wéi xīn zhù yì de huàn xiǎng zài cán kù de xiàn shí miàn qián pò miè liǎo。 tā zhuǎn 'ér huái yí zì jǐ shēng cún de yì yì， cóng shè huì jīng jì de tàn suǒ zhuànxiàng sī xiǎng hé dào dé de tàn suǒ， yào zài gè zhǒng zhé xué hé zōng jiào zhōng xún qiú dá 'àn， què háo wú suǒ huò。 shī wàng zhī yú， tā shèn zhì yào yǐ zì shā lái jiě tuō， zuì hòu cóng zōng fǎ zhì nóng mín nà lǐ dé dào qǐ shì： yào“ wéi líng hún 'ér huó zhe”。 tā de bù 'ān de xīn líng sì hū dé dào liǎo guī sù， dàn zhè guī sù chún rán shì kōng xiǎng， wú zhù yú shí jì máo dùn de jiě jué， zhǐ bù guò shì xīn líng bēi jù de má zuì jì bà liǎo。 qīng xǐng de xiàn shí zhù yì shǐ zuò zhě zài zhè lǐ bǎ xiǎo shuō shā zhù。 rú guǒ qíng jié zài cháo qián jìn zhǎn， rén wù huì cóng má zuì zhōng sū xǐng guò lái， xīn líng de bēi jù bì dìng zhào jiù zài tā miàn qián zhǎn kāi。
yǔ zhè liǎng wèi zhù rén gōng xiāng lián xì de、 yì jí zài tā men zhè liǎng tiáo xiàn suǒ shàng de yī xiē cì yào de rén wù， shì bàn suí zhe tā men chū chǎng bìng wéi rào tā men 'ér huó dòng de。 yǔ 'ān nà héng kǎ liè níng hé 'ān nà héng fú lóng sī jī xiāng lián xì de， zhù yào shì bǐ dé bǎo shàng liú shè huì de sān gè juàn zǐ hé jūn jiè de mǒu xiē guì zú； yǔ liè wén xiāng lián xì de， zhù yào shì wài shěng guì zú、 dì zhù、 nóng mín yǐ jí gè bié shāng rén。 yī bān shuō lái， ān nà zhè tiáo xiàn suǒ shàng de rén wù dà duō shè jí dào dé lún lǐ wèn tí， liè wén zhè tiáo xiàn suǒ shàng de rén wù dà duō shè jí shè huì jīng jì wèn tí。 dāng rán， liǎng zhě jiān yòu shí yě xiāng hù jiāo chā。 zhè xiē rén wù jué bù jǐn shì liǎng wèi zhù rén gōng de péi chèn huò duì zhào wù， ér qiě cháng cháng jū yú qián jǐng， zài qíng jié zhōng zhàn yòu xiāng dāng zhòng yào de wèi zhì。 zhèng shì lài yòu tā men， zuò pǐn cái dé yǐ chāo chū jiā tíng guān xì de fàn wéi， tū pò jiā tíng xiǎo shuō de kuàng jià， chéng wéi zuò zhě suǒ shuō de“ nèi róng guǎng fàn de、 zì yóu de xiǎo shuō”， cóng 'ér chéng wéi guǎng fàn fǎn yìng shí jiǔ shì jì liù qī shí nián dài shè huì shēng huó de shǐ shī xìng jié zuò。
jiù yì shù lái shuō，《 ān nà · kǎ liè níng nà》 què shí lìng rén tàn wéi guān zhǐ。 tā de róng hé wú jiān、 hù xiāng hū yìng de liǎng tiáo xiàn suǒ de jié gòu， jì《 zhàn zhēng yǔ hé píng》 zhī hòu， yòu yī cì chéng wéi“ bèi lí 'ōu zhōu xíng shì”、 zhǎo dào“ xīn de kuàng jià” de bù shì zhī zuò。 zài zé zhè bù xiǎo shuō de měi yī chǎng miàn、 měi yī chāqǔ、 měi yī huà miàn， yī bān bù zhǐ shì“ bèi jǐng” huò 'ǒu rán de“ bù jǐng”， ér shì zhěng tǐ de yòu jī bù fēn， zhè yě xiǎn shì chū jié gòu de yán mì xìng hé wán zhěng xìng。
shū zhōng de rén wù xìng gé， dà dū yú diǎn xíng xìng zhōng jiàn gè xìng。 dàn zhè me shuō wèi miǎn jiǎn dān liǎo xiē。 bù jǐn 'ào bù lóng sī jī、 fú lóng sī jī、 kǎ liè níng děng xíng xiàng fēng mǎn、 xiān míng、 shēng dòng， hū zhī yù chū， jiù lián liáo liáo jǐ bǐ huà chéng de chā qū shì rén wù， rú yī xì liè guì zú、 dì zhù， bǐ dé bǎo shè jiāo jiè de fù nǚ， wú bù gè jù tè sè， lì lì zài mù； gèng bù yòng shuō fù zá、 máo dùn 'ér yòu wán zhěng de 'ān nà liǎo。 ān nà zhè gè xíng xiàng zài shì jiè wén xué zhōng， jí shǐ bù shuō wú yǔ lún bǐ， kǒng pà yě hǎn yòu chóu pǐ。 zhè xiē rén wù suī shì jīng diāo xì zhuó， dàn bù xiàng gōng bǐ huà nà yàng dài yòu jiàng qì。 zuò zhě shǐ yòng“ jī lěi de fāng fǎ”， bìng fēi jī xiè dì píng jiè yī cì yòu yī cì de xù shù， ér shì tōng guò zhí jiē guān chá zhě de yǎn guāng huò gǎn shòu lái miáo xiě。 lì rú 'ān nà， tā xiān hòu zài dá lǐ yà、 fú lóng sī jī、 jī dì、 kǎ liè níng、 liè wén yǐ jí mǐ hā yī luó fū děng rén xīn mù zhōng， fēn bié chéng xiàn zì jǐ de yī gè cè miàn， zhèng shì zhè xiē bù tóng de cè miàn“ jī lěi” chéng yī gè lì tǐ de、 yǐ zhì duō jiǎo dù de xíng xiàng。 tóng shí， zhè xiē zhí jiē guān chá zhě yóu zhù guān de bù tóng de jiǎo dù kàn dào de bù tóng cè miàn， hé zhě fú hé zhēn shí， yóu yú zuò zhě bù zhì yī cí， gěi dú zhě liú xià guǎng kuò xiǎng xiàng de yú dì， yòu gěi zhè gè xíng xiàng méng shàng liǎo yī céng mí wù， kè guān shàng zēng tiān liǎo tā de fù zá xìng。 tuō 'ěr sī tài hái cóng jìn zhǎn zhōng kè huà xìng gé。 bù guò， ào bù lóng sī jī hé liè wén děng shì gù yòu pǐn zhì de zhú jiàn zhǎn shì， ān nà hé fú lóng sī jī de xìng gé zé shì fā zhǎn hé biàn huà de。
《 ān nà · kǎ liè níng nà》 shì wán quán yì yì shàng de xīn lǐ xiǎo shuō。 bù jǐn rén wù de nèi xīn shēng huó miáo xiě chōng fēn， jiù shì rén wù jiān de chōng tū yě dà dōushì xīn lǐ shàng de， huò shì tōng guò xīn lǐ lái biǎo xiàn de， yīn cǐ quán shū xīn lǐ miáo xiě de mì dù hěn dà。 suī zé yī bān shǐ yòng chuán tǒng shǒu fǎ， jí zuò zhě jiànjiē xù shù huò yóu rén wù de yǔ yán、 dòng zuò huò biǎo qíng děng zhí jiē biǎo xiàn， dàn bǐ mò shí fēn xì nì。 lì rú zǒng shì zài dòng tài zhōng xiě xīn lǐ guò chéng， yī bān shì zhǎn shì guò chéng zhōng de měi yī huán jié huò měi yī héng duàn miàn， bǎ rén wù nèi xīn de měi yī chàn dòng xiǎn xiàn chū lái。 zhè xiē guò chéng yī bān bù shì zhí xiàn shì de， ér qí qū zhé fǎn fù yě bù shì xún huán， ér shì luó xuán xíng de jìn zhǎn， yīn cǐ lìng rén gǎn dào de bù shì fán fù léizhuì， ér shì bù bù shēn rù。 ér zài bù shǎo chǎng hé， rén wù xīn lǐ hái shì qián hòu jié rán xiāng fǎn de， jiè yòng pī píng jiā bā hè jīn de shù yǔ lái shuō， shì“ duì huà” shì de。 zhè zhǒng“ duì huà” yòu shí biǎo xiàn yú jiào cháng de xīn lǐ guò chéng de shǐ yǔ zhōng， shì zhú jiàn biàn huà de jiēguǒ； yòu shí zé shì tū rán zhuǎn zhé。 qián zhě rú dá lǐ yà qù tàn wàng 'ān nà de nà yī chāqǔ， hòu zhě rú kē cí nèi xuě fū xiàng wǎ lián kǎ de qiú 'ài。 dàn wú lùn shì jiàn jìn huò shì tū biàn， dū fú hé rén wù de xìng gé huò xīn lǐ de guī lǜ。 yòu shí yě jìn rù bàn xià yì shí de lǐng yù， rú 'ān nà cóng mò sī kē huí bǐ dé bǎo de chē shàng de nà zhǒng mí lí huǎng hū de xīn tài。 ér zài yī xiē shǔ yú chuán tǒng shǒu fǎ de nèi xīn dú bái zhōng yě yòu suǒ chuàng xīn。 ào bù lóng sī jī zài lì jì yà · yī wàn nuò fū nà bó jué fū rén wǎn huì shàng nà duàn duàn duàn xù xù de nèi xīn dú bái， biǎo xiàn liǎo rén wù tóu nǎo chǔyú bàn shuì mián de xiāo jí zhuàng tài de líng luàn de yì shí zhī liú。 tè bié shì 'ān nà zài zì shā qián qū chē jīng guò jiē shàng shí de xīn lǐ huó dòng： jiē shàng shùn xī biàn huàn de gè zhǒng wài zài yìn xiàng bù duàn yǐn qǐ tā de zì yóu lián xiǎng， tā bù duàn yóu yī zhǒng gǎn chù huò huí yì mò dì tiào dào lìng yī zhǒng gǎn chù hé huí yì， tā qiáng liè jī dòng、 xīn fán yì luàn、 bǎi gǎn jiāo jí de xīn jìng yuè rán zhǐ shàng。 zuò zhě shì rú cǐ qiǎo miào dì yùn yòng liǎo yì shí liú shǒu fǎ de tiào yuè xìng， shěng lüè liǎo xǔ duō bù bì yào de huán jié hé hàn jiē diǎn， shǐ dé rén wù de sī lù xùn sù zhuǎn huàn 'ér yòu shí fēn zì rán， gè zhǒng sī xù duàn duàn xù xù， cǐ qǐ bǐ fú， hù bù lián guàn 'ér yòu bù líng luàn wú xù。 zhè kě yǐ shuō shì wén xué zhōng de yì shí liú de shén lái zhī bǐ。
xiǎo shuō zhōng hái yòu xǔ duō kuài zhì rén kǒu de chǎng miàn， xǔ duō miáo xiě shēng dòng de chāqǔ， yǐ jí wén bǐ de zì rán、 zhì pǔ hé zhēn shí…… zǒng zhī， kě tán zhě shàng duō。
《 ān nà · kǎ liè níng nà》 wèn shì yī bǎi duō nián liǎo。 zhè bù chū zì jù jiàng zhī shǒu de yì shù jié zuò， bù dàn méi yòu jiǎn sè， fǎn 'ér xiǎn dé gèng wéi guī lì。
chén shēn
1994． 4
Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was so sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys. The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote to a friend asking her to look out for a new situation for her; the man-cook had walked off the day before just at dinner time; the kitchen-maid, and the coachman had given warning.
Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky--Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable world-- woke up at his usual hour, that is, at eight o'clock in the morning, not in his wife's bedroom, but on the leather-covered sofa in his study. He turned over his stout, well-cared-for person on the springy sofa, as though he would sink into a long sleep again; he vigorously embraced the pillow on the other side and buried his face in it; but all at once he jumped up, sat up on the sofa, and opened his eyes.
"Yes, yes, how was it now?" he thought, going over his dream. "Now, how was it? To be sure! Alabin was giving a dinner at Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but something American. Yes, but then, Darmstadt was in America. Yes, Alabin was giving a dinner on glass tables, and the tables sang, Il mio tesoro--not Il mio tesoro though, but something better, and there were some sort of little decanters on the table, and they were women, too," he remembered.
Stepan Arkadyevitch's eyes twinkled gaily, and he pondered with a smile. "Yes, it was nice, very nice. There was a great deal more that was delightful, only there's no putting it into words, or even expressing it in one's thoughts awake." And noticing a gleam of light peeping in beside one of the serge curtains, he cheerfully dropped his feet over the edge of the sofa, and felt about with them for his slippers, a present on his last birthday, worked for him by his wife on gold-colored morocco. And, as he had done every day for the last nine years, he stretched out his hand, without getting up, towards the place where his dressing-gown always hung in his bedroom. And thereupon he suddenly remembered that he was not sleeping in his wife's room, but in his study, and why: the smile vanished from his face, he knitted his brows.
"Ah, ah, ah! Oo!..." he muttered, recalling everything that had happened. And again every detail of his quarrel with his wife was present to his imagination, all the hopelessness of his position, and worst of all, his own fault.
"Yes, she won't forgive me, and she can't forgive me. And the most awful thing about it is that it's all my fault--all my fault, though I'm not to blame. That's the point of the whole situation," he reflected. "Oh, oh, oh!" he kept repeating in despair, as he remembered the acutely painful sensations caused him by this quarrel.
Most unpleasant of all was the first minute when, on coming, happy and good-humored, from the theater, with a huge pear in his hand for his wife, he had not found his wife in the drawing-room, to his surprise had not found her in the study either, and saw her at last in her bedroom with the unlucky letter that revealed everything in her hand.
She, his Dolly, forever fussing and worrying over household details, and limited in her ideas, as he considered, was sitting perfectly still with the letter in her hand, looking at him with an expression of horror, despair, and indignation.
"What's this? this?" she asked, pointing to the letter.
And at this recollection, Stepan Arkadyevitch, as is so often the case, was not so much annoyed at the fact itself as at the way in which he had met his wife's words.
There happened to him at that instant what does happen to people when they are unexpectedly caught in something very disgraceful. He did not succeed in adapting his face to the position in which he was placed towards his wife by the discovery of his fault. Instead of being hurt, denying, defending himself, begging forgiveness, instead of remaining indifferent even--anything would have been better than what he did do--his face utterly involuntarily (reflex spinal action, reflected Stepan Arkadyevitch, who was fond of physiology)--utterly involuntarily assumed its habitual, good-humored, and therefore idiotic smile.
This idiotic smile he could not forgive himself. Catching sight of that smile, Dolly shuddered as though at physical pain, broke out with her characteristic heat into a flood of cruel words, and rushed out of the room. Since then she had refused to see her husband.
"It's that idiotic smile that's to blame for it all," thought Stepan Arkadyevitch.
"But what's to be done? What's to be done?" he said to himself in despair, and found no answer.
xiǎo shuō zhōng yòu liǎng tiáo píng xíng de xiàn suǒ， dāng shí yòu rén shuō tā méi yòu“ jiàn zhù shù”， yòu rén shuō tā shì“ liǎng bù xiǎo shuō”。 zuò zhě wěi wǎn dì jù jué liǎo zhè xiē pī píng。 tā shuō， gāi shū jié gòu zhī miào zhèng zài yú yuán gǒng xián jiē dé tiān yī wúfèng héng héng liǎng tiáo xiàn suǒ yòu“ nèi zài de lián xì”。 duì cǐ zhòng shuō fēn yún。 yǐ wǒ kàn， zhǐ de shì yòu yī gè tǒng yī de zhù tí， jí dāng shí zī běn zhù yì xùn měng fā zhǎn dài lái de、 zuò zhě suǒ rèn wéi de zāinàn xìng de hòu guǒ： yī fāng miàn shì guì zú shòu zī chǎn jiē jí sī xiǎng qīn shí， zài jiā tíng、 hūn yīn děng dào dé lún lǐ guān niàn fāng miàn fā shēng jī liè biàn huà， juàn shǒu“ ào bù lóng sī jī jiā lǐ yī qiēdōu hùn luàn liǎo” yī yǔ yòu xiàng zhēng yì yì； lìng yī fāng miàn shì nóng yè shòu zī běn zhù yì pò huài， guó jiā miàn lín jīng jì fā zhǎn de dào lù wèn tí， yě jiù shì liè wén shuō de：“ yī qiēdōu fān liǎo yī gè shēn， yī qiēdōu gāng gāng kāi shǐ 'ān pái。” yǐ 'ān nà wéi zhōng xīn de xiàn suǒ（ bāo kuò 'ào bù lóng sī jī、 kǎ liè níng、 fú lóng sī jī yǐ zhì xiè 'ěr bā cí jī děng jiā zú） hé liè wén de xiàn suǒ， fēn bié biǎo xiàn liǎo zhè liǎng fāng miàn de wèn tí。
xiàn yú piān fú， xià miàn zhǐ jiǎn dān dì tán tán nán nǚ liǎng wèi zhù rén gōng yǐ jí yòu guān chuàng zuò yì shù de diǎn dī kàn fǎ。
xiǎo shuō yǐ 'ān nà · kǎ liè níng nà mìng míng， tā de xíng xiàng zài xiǎo shuō zhōng què shí jū yú zhōng xīn de wèi zhì。 ān nà bù jǐn tiān shēng lì zhì， guāng yàn duó rén， ér qiě chún zhēn、 chéng shí、 duān zhuāng、 cōng huì， hái yòu yī gè“ fù zá 'ér yòu shī yì de nèi xīn shì jiè”。 kě shì tā yù rén bù shū， nián qīng shí yóu gū mǔ zuò zhù， jià gěi yī gè tóu nǎo jiāng huà、 sī xiǎng bǎo shǒu、 xū wěi chéng xìng bìng qiě méi yòu huó rén gǎn qíng de guān liáo kǎ liè níng。 zài hūn hòu bā nián jiān， tā céng nǔ lì qù 'ài zhàng fū hé 'ér zǐ。 ér xiàn zài yóu yú“ shì fēng rì biàn”， hūn yīn zì yóu de sī xiǎng jī qǐ liǎo zhè gè gǔ jǐng zhī shuǐ de bō lán。 yǔ fú lóng sī jī de xiè hòu， chóngxīn huàn xǐng liǎo tā duì shēng huó de zhuī qiú。 tā yào“ shēng huó”， yě jiù shì yào 'ài qíng。 tā zhōng yú kuà yuè liǎo lǐ jiào de fán lí。 zuò wéi yǐ hūn de duān zhuāng de fù nǚ， yào kuà chū zhè yī bù， xū yào yòu hěn dà de jué xīn hé yǒng qì， suī zé zài dāng shí shàng liú shè huì sī tōng yǐ sī kōng jiàn guàn liǎo。 dàn tā de yǒng qì zhù yào zài yú， bù yuàn yǔ wú chǐ de guì zú fù nǚ tóng liú hé wū， bù yuàn xiàng tā men nà yàng cháng qī qī piàn zhàng fū， yì rán bǎ 'ài mèi de guān xì gōng kāi。 zhè bù chì xiàng shàng liú shè huì tiǎo zhàn， cóng 'ér bù jiàn róng yú shàng liú shè huì， tóng shí yě shòu dào kǎ liè níng de cán kù bào fù： jì bù dāyìng tā lí hūn， yòu bù ràng tā qīn jìn 'ài zǐ。 tā tú rán zhēngzhá， céng wéi 'ài qíng 'ér xī shēng mǔ 'ài， kě zhè 'ài qíng yòu chéng liǎo jìng huā shuǐ yuè。 tā zhōng yú yuè lái yuè shēn dì xiàn rù bēi jù de mìng yùn。
bù guò， suī shuō zào chéng tā de bēi jù de shì bāo kuò kǎ liè níng、 fú lóng sī jī zài nèi de shàng liú shè huì， ān nà zuò wéi bēi jù rén wù， běn shēn yě bù shì méi yòu“ guò cuò”； zài shuō tā de xìng gé hòu lái hái fā shēng liǎo lìng rén wǎn xī de biàn huà。 zhè wèi liú lǐ kè wáng shì de hòu yì， shòu shí dài de xǐ lǐ 'ér gǎn yú wéi“ shēng huó” ér tóng shè huì kàng zhēng， dàn tā zì jǐ què wèi néng wán quán zhèng tuō jiù sī xiǎng yì shí de zhì gù， tā bù jǐn yī zài duì kǎ liè níng huái yòu fù zuì gǎn， ér qiě yě bù néng gē duàn tóng shàng liú shè huì de xuè yuán guān xì， yīn cǐ yǐ jiàn zhú yú tā 'ér gǎn dào wú dì zì róng。 shí jì shàng tā yě méi yòu zhēn zhèng xué huì 'ài。 tóng fú lóng sī jī de yī jiàn zhōng qíng， sì hū yīn tā kāng kǎi hǎo shī， zhù yào què shì qīng xīn yú tā de yí biǎo、 fēng dù， chū yú zì jǐ wàng shèng de shēng mìng lì de zì fā yào qiú， bìng bù jī yú gòng tóng de sī xiǎng gǎn qíng。 zhè zhǒng 'ài qíng shì máng mùdì， shí jì shàng jīhū quán shì qíng yù， ér qíng yù shì nán yǐ chí jiǔ de。 fú lóng sī jī chū shí wèile xū róng xīn 'ér liè zhú tā， yī dù yīn 'ān nà de zhēn zhì de 'ài 'ér biàn dé yán sù zhuān yī， dàn bù jiǔ jiù yīn gōng míng zhī xīn de rú dòng 'ér yàn qì tā。 ér 'ān nà bǎ 'ài qíng dāng zuò zhěng gè shēng huó， chén nì qí zhōng， yào fú lóng sī jī yǔ tā zhāoxī sī shǒu yī qǐ， shèn zhì gān wéi tā de“ wú tiáo jiàn de nú lì”。 yú shì tā de jīng shén pǐn zhì jiàn jiàn shī qù liǎo guāng cǎi。 wèile chóngxīn huàn qǐ fú lóng sī jī de 'ài， jìng bù xī yǐ zī sè de mèi lì biān zhì“ ài qíng de wǎng”， bìng qiě zhú jiàn xí guàn yú“ xū wěi hé qī piàn de jīng shén”。 zuì hòu， tā de 'ài yuè lái yuè zì sī， yǐ zhì zài“ bù mǎn zú” shí biàn chéng liǎo hèn。 bù guò， wǒ men bù néng yīn cǐ 'ér zé bèi 'ān nà， xū zhī tā shēng huó zài lì shǐ de zhuǎn zhé shí qī。 rú guǒ shuō tā tóng shè huì de wài zài máo dùn， shì yóu yú xīn shì wù shòu jiù shì wù yā zhì， nà me， tā zì shēn de máo dùn， zé shì xīn méng fā de yì shí wèi néng zhàn shèng gēn shēn dì gù de jiù yì shí。 hé kuàng dāng shí néng dài tì jiù de dào dé guān niàn de xīn guān niàn shàng wèi xíng chéng。 yīn cǐ kě yǐ shuō， tā shēn shàng jí zhōng liǎo shí dài de gè zhǒng máo dùn。 tā de zì shā， cóng zhù guān shàng shuō shì xún qiú jiě tuō， yě shì duì fú lóng sī jī de bào fù jí duì shàng liú shè huì de； kè guān shàng zé shì yóu yú jí zhōng liǎo gè zhǒng shí dài de máo dùn 'ér wú fǎ kè fú， cóng 'ér wú kě bì miǎn dì chéng wéi zhè gè zhuǎn zhé shí qī jì tán de xī shēng。 zhè zhǒng bì rán xìng biǎo míng liǎo 'ān nà bēi jù de shēn dù。
liè wén yě shì shēn kè máo dùn de rén wù。 tā bǐ shì bǐ dé bǎo de gōng tíng guì zú， què yǐ chū shēn shì xí guì zú 'ér zì háo； tā bù mǎn yú shàng liú shè huì de huāng yín hé xū wěi， què rèn wéi shē chǐ shì guì zú de běn fēn； tā fǎn duì yǐ nóng nú zhì de“ gùn zǐ” yā zhì nóng mín， què yòu xiàng wǎng yú guì zú de gǔ fēng jiù xí； tā yàn 'è zī běn zhù yì bìng fǒu dìng zī běn zhù yì zài fā zhǎn de bì rán xìng， dàn tā zì jǐ de nóng yè jīng yíng xiǎn rán shì zī běn zhù yì fāng shì； tā duàn yán zī chǎn jiē jí suǒ dé de shì“ bù yì zhī cái”， ér zì jǐ què hé láo dòng zhě jìn xíng“ cán kù de” dǒu zhēng。 zhè xiē zhèng shì zhè wèi“ yòu xīn líng”、 yòu dào dé gǎn qíng de guì zú zài lì shǐ zhuǎn zhé shí qī 'ér bèi duì lì shǐ fā zhǎn suǒ bì rán chǎn shēng de sī xiǎng máo dùn。
yǔ 'ān nà bù tóng， liè wén kě yǐ shuō shì huò dé liǎo zhēn zhèng de 'ài qíng hé jiā tíng de xìng fú。 rán 'ér， liáng xīn de tòng kǔ zài zhé mó zhe tā， zài zì jǐ fù yù tóng rén mín pín kùn duì bǐ xià， tā shēn shēn bào yòu fù zuì gǎn。 zhǐ shì tā bù tóng yú yī bān de chàn huǐ guì zú， tā jī jí tàn suǒ tóng rén mín jiē jìn de dào lù， bìng tàn suǒ tōng guò“ bù liúxiě de” yǐ dá dào yǔ nóng mín hé zuò、 gòng tóng fù yù de dào lù。 zhè zhǒng lì shǐ wéi xīn zhù yì de huàn xiǎng zài cán kù de xiàn shí miàn qián pò miè liǎo。 tā zhuǎn 'ér huái yí zì jǐ shēng cún de yì yì， cóng shè huì jīng jì de tàn suǒ zhuànxiàng sī xiǎng hé dào dé de tàn suǒ， yào zài gè zhǒng zhé xué hé zōng jiào zhōng xún qiú dá 'àn， què háo wú suǒ huò。 shī wàng zhī yú， tā shèn zhì yào yǐ zì shā lái jiě tuō， zuì hòu cóng zōng fǎ zhì nóng mín nà lǐ dé dào qǐ shì： yào“ wéi líng hún 'ér huó zhe”。 tā de bù 'ān de xīn líng sì hū dé dào liǎo guī sù， dàn zhè guī sù chún rán shì kōng xiǎng， wú zhù yú shí jì máo dùn de jiě jué， zhǐ bù guò shì xīn líng bēi jù de má zuì jì bà liǎo。 qīng xǐng de xiàn shí zhù yì shǐ zuò zhě zài zhè lǐ bǎ xiǎo shuō shā zhù。 rú guǒ qíng jié zài cháo qián jìn zhǎn， rén wù huì cóng má zuì zhōng sū xǐng guò lái， xīn líng de bēi jù bì dìng zhào jiù zài tā miàn qián zhǎn kāi。
yǔ zhè liǎng wèi zhù rén gōng xiāng lián xì de、 yì jí zài tā men zhè liǎng tiáo xiàn suǒ shàng de yī xiē cì yào de rén wù， shì bàn suí zhe tā men chū chǎng bìng wéi rào tā men 'ér huó dòng de。 yǔ 'ān nà héng kǎ liè níng hé 'ān nà héng fú lóng sī jī xiāng lián xì de， zhù yào shì bǐ dé bǎo shàng liú shè huì de sān gè juàn zǐ hé jūn jiè de mǒu xiē guì zú； yǔ liè wén xiāng lián xì de， zhù yào shì wài shěng guì zú、 dì zhù、 nóng mín yǐ jí gè bié shāng rén。 yī bān shuō lái， ān nà zhè tiáo xiàn suǒ shàng de rén wù dà duō shè jí dào dé lún lǐ wèn tí， liè wén zhè tiáo xiàn suǒ shàng de rén wù dà duō shè jí shè huì jīng jì wèn tí。 dāng rán， liǎng zhě jiān yòu shí yě xiāng hù jiāo chā。 zhè xiē rén wù jué bù jǐn shì liǎng wèi zhù rén gōng de péi chèn huò duì zhào wù， ér qiě cháng cháng jū yú qián jǐng， zài qíng jié zhōng zhàn yòu xiāng dāng zhòng yào de wèi zhì。 zhèng shì lài yòu tā men， zuò pǐn cái dé yǐ chāo chū jiā tíng guān xì de fàn wéi， tū pò jiā tíng xiǎo shuō de kuàng jià， chéng wéi zuò zhě suǒ shuō de“ nèi róng guǎng fàn de、 zì yóu de xiǎo shuō”， cóng 'ér chéng wéi guǎng fàn fǎn yìng shí jiǔ shì jì liù qī shí nián dài shè huì shēng huó de shǐ shī xìng jié zuò。
jiù yì shù lái shuō，《 ān nà · kǎ liè níng nà》 què shí lìng rén tàn wéi guān zhǐ。 tā de róng hé wú jiān、 hù xiāng hū yìng de liǎng tiáo xiàn suǒ de jié gòu， jì《 zhàn zhēng yǔ hé píng》 zhī hòu， yòu yī cì chéng wéi“ bèi lí 'ōu zhōu xíng shì”、 zhǎo dào“ xīn de kuàng jià” de bù shì zhī zuò。 zài zé zhè bù xiǎo shuō de měi yī chǎng miàn、 měi yī chāqǔ、 měi yī huà miàn， yī bān bù zhǐ shì“ bèi jǐng” huò 'ǒu rán de“ bù jǐng”， ér shì zhěng tǐ de yòu jī bù fēn， zhè yě xiǎn shì chū jié gòu de yán mì xìng hé wán zhěng xìng。
shū zhōng de rén wù xìng gé， dà dū yú diǎn xíng xìng zhōng jiàn gè xìng。 dàn zhè me shuō wèi miǎn jiǎn dān liǎo xiē。 bù jǐn 'ào bù lóng sī jī、 fú lóng sī jī、 kǎ liè níng děng xíng xiàng fēng mǎn、 xiān míng、 shēng dòng， hū zhī yù chū， jiù lián liáo liáo jǐ bǐ huà chéng de chā qū shì rén wù， rú yī xì liè guì zú、 dì zhù， bǐ dé bǎo shè jiāo jiè de fù nǚ， wú bù gè jù tè sè， lì lì zài mù； gèng bù yòng shuō fù zá、 máo dùn 'ér yòu wán zhěng de 'ān nà liǎo。 ān nà zhè gè xíng xiàng zài shì jiè wén xué zhōng， jí shǐ bù shuō wú yǔ lún bǐ， kǒng pà yě hǎn yòu chóu pǐ。 zhè xiē rén wù suī shì jīng diāo xì zhuó， dàn bù xiàng gōng bǐ huà nà yàng dài yòu jiàng qì。 zuò zhě shǐ yòng“ jī lěi de fāng fǎ”， bìng fēi jī xiè dì píng jiè yī cì yòu yī cì de xù shù， ér shì tōng guò zhí jiē guān chá zhě de yǎn guāng huò gǎn shòu lái miáo xiě。 lì rú 'ān nà， tā xiān hòu zài dá lǐ yà、 fú lóng sī jī、 jī dì、 kǎ liè níng、 liè wén yǐ jí mǐ hā yī luó fū děng rén xīn mù zhōng， fēn bié chéng xiàn zì jǐ de yī gè cè miàn， zhèng shì zhè xiē bù tóng de cè miàn“ jī lěi” chéng yī gè lì tǐ de、 yǐ zhì duō jiǎo dù de xíng xiàng。 tóng shí， zhè xiē zhí jiē guān chá zhě yóu zhù guān de bù tóng de jiǎo dù kàn dào de bù tóng cè miàn， hé zhě fú hé zhēn shí， yóu yú zuò zhě bù zhì yī cí， gěi dú zhě liú xià guǎng kuò xiǎng xiàng de yú dì， yòu gěi zhè gè xíng xiàng méng shàng liǎo yī céng mí wù， kè guān shàng zēng tiān liǎo tā de fù zá xìng。 tuō 'ěr sī tài hái cóng jìn zhǎn zhōng kè huà xìng gé。 bù guò， ào bù lóng sī jī hé liè wén děng shì gù yòu pǐn zhì de zhú jiàn zhǎn shì， ān nà hé fú lóng sī jī de xìng gé zé shì fā zhǎn hé biàn huà de。
《 ān nà · kǎ liè níng nà》 shì wán quán yì yì shàng de xīn lǐ xiǎo shuō。 bù jǐn rén wù de nèi xīn shēng huó miáo xiě chōng fēn， jiù shì rén wù jiān de chōng tū yě dà dōushì xīn lǐ shàng de， huò shì tōng guò xīn lǐ lái biǎo xiàn de， yīn cǐ quán shū xīn lǐ miáo xiě de mì dù hěn dà。 suī zé yī bān shǐ yòng chuán tǒng shǒu fǎ， jí zuò zhě jiànjiē xù shù huò yóu rén wù de yǔ yán、 dòng zuò huò biǎo qíng děng zhí jiē biǎo xiàn， dàn bǐ mò shí fēn xì nì。 lì rú zǒng shì zài dòng tài zhōng xiě xīn lǐ guò chéng， yī bān shì zhǎn shì guò chéng zhōng de měi yī huán jié huò měi yī héng duàn miàn， bǎ rén wù nèi xīn de měi yī chàn dòng xiǎn xiàn chū lái。 zhè xiē guò chéng yī bān bù shì zhí xiàn shì de， ér qí qū zhé fǎn fù yě bù shì xún huán， ér shì luó xuán xíng de jìn zhǎn， yīn cǐ lìng rén gǎn dào de bù shì fán fù léizhuì， ér shì bù bù shēn rù。 ér zài bù shǎo chǎng hé， rén wù xīn lǐ hái shì qián hòu jié rán xiāng fǎn de， jiè yòng pī píng jiā bā hè jīn de shù yǔ lái shuō， shì“ duì huà” shì de。 zhè zhǒng“ duì huà” yòu shí biǎo xiàn yú jiào cháng de xīn lǐ guò chéng de shǐ yǔ zhōng， shì zhú jiàn biàn huà de jiēguǒ； yòu shí zé shì tū rán zhuǎn zhé。 qián zhě rú dá lǐ yà qù tàn wàng 'ān nà de nà yī chāqǔ， hòu zhě rú kē cí nèi xuě fū xiàng wǎ lián kǎ de qiú 'ài。 dàn wú lùn shì jiàn jìn huò shì tū biàn， dū fú hé rén wù de xìng gé huò xīn lǐ de guī lǜ。 yòu shí yě jìn rù bàn xià yì shí de lǐng yù， rú 'ān nà cóng mò sī kē huí bǐ dé bǎo de chē shàng de nà zhǒng mí lí huǎng hū de xīn tài。 ér zài yī xiē shǔ yú chuán tǒng shǒu fǎ de nèi xīn dú bái zhōng yě yòu suǒ chuàng xīn。 ào bù lóng sī jī zài lì jì yà · yī wàn nuò fū nà bó jué fū rén wǎn huì shàng nà duàn duàn duàn xù xù de nèi xīn dú bái， biǎo xiàn liǎo rén wù tóu nǎo chǔyú bàn shuì mián de xiāo jí zhuàng tài de líng luàn de yì shí zhī liú。 tè bié shì 'ān nà zài zì shā qián qū chē jīng guò jiē shàng shí de xīn lǐ huó dòng： jiē shàng shùn xī biàn huàn de gè zhǒng wài zài yìn xiàng bù duàn yǐn qǐ tā de zì yóu lián xiǎng， tā bù duàn yóu yī zhǒng gǎn chù huò huí yì mò dì tiào dào lìng yī zhǒng gǎn chù hé huí yì， tā qiáng liè jī dòng、 xīn fán yì luàn、 bǎi gǎn jiāo jí de xīn jìng yuè rán zhǐ shàng。 zuò zhě shì rú cǐ qiǎo miào dì yùn yòng liǎo yì shí liú shǒu fǎ de tiào yuè xìng， shěng lüè liǎo xǔ duō bù bì yào de huán jié hé hàn jiē diǎn， shǐ dé rén wù de sī lù xùn sù zhuǎn huàn 'ér yòu shí fēn zì rán， gè zhǒng sī xù duàn duàn xù xù， cǐ qǐ bǐ fú， hù bù lián guàn 'ér yòu bù líng luàn wú xù。 zhè kě yǐ shuō shì wén xué zhōng de yì shí liú de shén lái zhī bǐ。
xiǎo shuō zhōng hái yòu xǔ duō kuài zhì rén kǒu de chǎng miàn， xǔ duō miáo xiě shēng dòng de chāqǔ， yǐ jí wén bǐ de zì rán、 zhì pǔ hé zhēn shí…… zǒng zhī， kě tán zhě shàng duō。
《 ān nà · kǎ liè níng nà》 wèn shì yī bǎi duō nián liǎo。 zhè bù chū zì jù jiàng zhī shǒu de yì shù jié zuò， bù dàn méi yòu jiǎn sè， fǎn 'ér xiǎn dé gèng wéi guī lì。
chén shēn
1994． 4
Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was so sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys. The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. The children ran wild all over the house; the English governess quarreled with the housekeeper, and wrote to a friend asking her to look out for a new situation for her; the man-cook had walked off the day before just at dinner time; the kitchen-maid, and the coachman had given warning.
Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky--Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable world-- woke up at his usual hour, that is, at eight o'clock in the morning, not in his wife's bedroom, but on the leather-covered sofa in his study. He turned over his stout, well-cared-for person on the springy sofa, as though he would sink into a long sleep again; he vigorously embraced the pillow on the other side and buried his face in it; but all at once he jumped up, sat up on the sofa, and opened his eyes.
"Yes, yes, how was it now?" he thought, going over his dream. "Now, how was it? To be sure! Alabin was giving a dinner at Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but something American. Yes, but then, Darmstadt was in America. Yes, Alabin was giving a dinner on glass tables, and the tables sang, Il mio tesoro--not Il mio tesoro though, but something better, and there were some sort of little decanters on the table, and they were women, too," he remembered.
Stepan Arkadyevitch's eyes twinkled gaily, and he pondered with a smile. "Yes, it was nice, very nice. There was a great deal more that was delightful, only there's no putting it into words, or even expressing it in one's thoughts awake." And noticing a gleam of light peeping in beside one of the serge curtains, he cheerfully dropped his feet over the edge of the sofa, and felt about with them for his slippers, a present on his last birthday, worked for him by his wife on gold-colored morocco. And, as he had done every day for the last nine years, he stretched out his hand, without getting up, towards the place where his dressing-gown always hung in his bedroom. And thereupon he suddenly remembered that he was not sleeping in his wife's room, but in his study, and why: the smile vanished from his face, he knitted his brows.
"Ah, ah, ah! Oo!..." he muttered, recalling everything that had happened. And again every detail of his quarrel with his wife was present to his imagination, all the hopelessness of his position, and worst of all, his own fault.
"Yes, she won't forgive me, and she can't forgive me. And the most awful thing about it is that it's all my fault--all my fault, though I'm not to blame. That's the point of the whole situation," he reflected. "Oh, oh, oh!" he kept repeating in despair, as he remembered the acutely painful sensations caused him by this quarrel.
Most unpleasant of all was the first minute when, on coming, happy and good-humored, from the theater, with a huge pear in his hand for his wife, he had not found his wife in the drawing-room, to his surprise had not found her in the study either, and saw her at last in her bedroom with the unlucky letter that revealed everything in her hand.
She, his Dolly, forever fussing and worrying over household details, and limited in her ideas, as he considered, was sitting perfectly still with the letter in her hand, looking at him with an expression of horror, despair, and indignation.
"What's this? this?" she asked, pointing to the letter.
And at this recollection, Stepan Arkadyevitch, as is so often the case, was not so much annoyed at the fact itself as at the way in which he had met his wife's words.
There happened to him at that instant what does happen to people when they are unexpectedly caught in something very disgraceful. He did not succeed in adapting his face to the position in which he was placed towards his wife by the discovery of his fault. Instead of being hurt, denying, defending himself, begging forgiveness, instead of remaining indifferent even--anything would have been better than what he did do--his face utterly involuntarily (reflex spinal action, reflected Stepan Arkadyevitch, who was fond of physiology)--utterly involuntarily assumed its habitual, good-humored, and therefore idiotic smile.
This idiotic smile he could not forgive himself. Catching sight of that smile, Dolly shuddered as though at physical pain, broke out with her characteristic heat into a flood of cruel words, and rushed out of the room. Since then she had refused to see her husband.
"It's that idiotic smile that's to blame for it all," thought Stepan Arkadyevitch.
"But what's to be done? What's to be done?" he said to himself in despair, and found no answer.
xìng fú de jiā tíng dōushì xiāng sì de， bù xìng de jiā tíng gè yòu gè de bù xìng。
ào bù lóng sī jī jiā lǐ yī qiēdōu hùn luàn liǎo。 qī zǐ fā jué zhàng fū hé tā men jiā cóng qián de fǎ guó nǚ jiā tíng jiào shī yòu 'ài mèi guān xì， tā xiàng zhàng fū shēng míng tā bù néng hé tā zài zài yī gè wū zǐ lǐ zhù xià qù liǎo。 zhè yàng de zhuàng tài yǐ jīng jì xù liǎo sān tiān， bù zhǐ shì fū qī liǎng gè， jiù shì tā men quán jiā hé pú réndōu wèicǐ gǎn dào tòng kǔ。 jiā lǐ de měi gè réndōu jué dé tā men zhù zài yī qǐ méi yòu yì sī， ér qiě jué dé jiù shì zài rèn hé kè diàn lǐ píng shuǐ xiāng féng de rén yědōu bǐ tā men， ào bù lóng sī jī quán jiā hé pú rén gèng qíng tóu yì hé。 qī zǐ méi yòu lí kāi zì jǐ de fáng jiān yī bù， zhàng fū sān tiān bù zài jiā liǎo， xiǎo hái men xiàng shī liǎo guǎn jiào yī yàng zài jiā lǐ dào chù luàn páo。 yīng guó nǚ jiā tíng jiào shī hé nǚ guǎn jiā chǎo jià， gěi péng yǒu xiě liǎo xìn， qǐng tì tā zhǎo yī gè xīn de wèi zhì。
chú shī zuó tiān qià hǎo zài wǎn cān shí zǒu diào liǎo， chú niàn hé chē fū cí liǎo gōng。
zài chǎo jià hòu de dì sān tiān， sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí · ào bù lóng sī jī gōng jué héng héng tā zài jiāo jì chǎng lǐ shì jiào sī jì wǎ de héng héng zài zhào lì de shí jiān， zǎo chén bā diǎn zhōng xǐng lái， bù zài tā qī zǐ de qǐn shì， què zài tā shū fáng lǐ de róu pí shā fā shàng。 tā zài fù yú tánxìng de shā fā shàng bǎ tā de féi pàng de、 bǎo yǎng dé hěn hǎo de shēn tǐ fānzhuàn， hǎo xiàng yào zài shuì yī dà jué shìde， tā shǐ jìn bào zhù yī gè zhěn tóu， bǎ tā de liǎn jǐn jǐn dì wēi zhe tā； dàn shì tā tū rán tiào qǐ lái， zuò zài shā fā shàng， zhāng kāi yǎn jīng。
“ ò， ò， zěn me huí shì？” tā xiǎng， chóngwēn zhe tā de mèng jìng。“ zěn me huí shì， duì lā！ ā lā bīn zài dá mǔ shī tǎ tè ① qǐng kè； bù， bù shì dá mǔ shī tǎ tè， ér shì zài měi guó shénme dì fāng。 bù cuò， dá mǔ shī tǎ tè shì zài měi guó。 bù cuò， ā lā bīn zài bō lí zhuō shàng qǐng kè， zài zuò de réndōu chàng Ilmiotesoro ②， dàn yě bù shì Ilmiotesoro， ér shì bǐ nà gèng hǎo de； zhuō shàng hái yòu xiē xiǎo jiǔ píng， nà dōushì nǚ rén，” tā huí xiǎng zhe。
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① dá mǔ shī tǎ tè， xiàn jīn xī dé de yī gè chéng shì。
② yì dà lì yǔ： wǒ de bǎo bèi。
sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí de yǎn jīng kuài lè dì shǎn yào zhe， tā hán zhe wēi xiào chén sī。“ ò， zhēn shì yòu qù jí liǎo。 yòu wèi de shì qíng hái duō dé hěn， kě xī xǐng liǎo shuō bù chū lái， lián yì sī dū biǎo dá bù chū lái。” ér hòu kàn dào cóng yī fú luó shā chuāng wéi biān shàng shè rù de yī xiàn rì guāng， tā yú kuài dì bǎ jiǎo yán zhe shā fā biān shēn xià qù， yòng jiǎo qù sōu suǒ tā de tuō xié， nà shuāng tuō xié shì jīn sè róu pí de， shàng miàn yòu tā qī zǐ xiù de huā， shì tā qù nián shēng rì shí tā sòng gěi tā de lǐ wù； zhào tā jiǔ nián lái de xí guàn， měi tiān tā méi yòu qǐ lái， jiù xiàng qǐn shì lǐ cháng guà chén yī de dì fāng shēn chū shǒu qù。 tā zhè cái tū rán jì qǐ liǎo tā méi yòu hé wèishénme méi yòu shuì zài qī zǐ de fáng jiān 'ér shuì zài zì jǐ de shū fáng lǐ。 wēi xiào cóng tā de liǎn shàng xiāo shī， tā zhòu qǐ méi lái。
“ āi， āi， āi！” tā tàn xī， huí xiǎng zhe fā shēng de yī qiē shì qíng。 tā hé qī zǐ chǎo jià de měi gè xì jié， tā nà wú fǎ bǎi tuō de chǔjìng yǐ jí zuì zāo gāo de， tā zì jǐ de guò cuò， yòu yī qí yǒng shàng tā de xīn tóu。
“ shì de， tā bù huì ráo shù wǒ， tā yě bù néng ráo shù wǒ！ ér zuì zāo de shì zhè dū shì wǒ de guò cuò héng héng dōushì wǒ de guò cuò； dàn yě bù néng guài wǒ。 bēi jù jiù zài zhè lǐ！” tā chén sī zhe。“ āi， āi， āi！” tā jì qǐ zhè chǎng chǎo nào suǒ gěi yú tā de jí duān tòng kǔ de gǎn jué， jìn zài jué wàng dì zì bēi zì tàn。
zuì bù yú kuài de shì zuì chū de yī shùn jiān， dāng tā xīng gāo cǎi liè de， shǒu lǐ ná zhe yī zhǐ yù bèi gěi tā qī zǐ de dà lí， cóng jù chǎng huí lái de shí hòu， tā zài kè tīng lǐ méi yòu zhǎo dào tā qī zǐ， shǐ tā dà wéi chī jīng de shì， zài shū fáng lǐ yě méi yòu zhǎo dào， ér zhōng yú fā xiàn tā zài qǐn shì lǐ， shǒu lǐ ná zhe nà fēng xiè lòu liǎo yī qiē de dǎo méi de xìn。
tā héng héng nà gè lǎo shì máng máng lù lù hé yōu lǜ bù 'ān， ér qiě yǐ tā kàn lái， tóu nǎo jiǎn dān de duō lì①， dòng yě bù dòng dì zuò zài nà lǐ， shǒu lǐ ná zhe nà fēng xìn， dài zhe kǒng bù、 jué wàng hé fèn nù de biǎo qíng wàng zhe tā。
“ zhè shì shénme？ zhè？” tā wèn， zhǐ zhe nà fēng xìn。
huí xiǎng qǐ lái de shí hòu， sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí， xiàng cháng yòu de qíng xíng yī yàng， jué dé shì qíng běn shēn hái méi yòu tā huí dá qī zǐ de huà de tài dù nà me shǐ tā kǔ nǎo。
nà yī shùn jiān， zài tā shēn shàng fā shēng liǎo yī bān rén zài tā men de jí bù míng yù de xíng wéi tū rú qí lái dì bèi jiē fā liǎo de shí hòu suǒ cháng fā shēng de xiàn xiàng。 tā méi yòu néng gòu shǐ tā de liǎn sè shì yìng yú tā de guò shī bèi jiē chuān hòu tā zài qī zǐ miàn qián suǒ chù de dì wèi。 méi yòu gǎn dào shòu liǎo wěi qū， shǐ kǒu fǒu rèn， tì zì jǐ biàn hù， qǐng qiú ráo shù， shèn zhì yě méi yòu suǒ xìng bù zài hū héng héng suí biàn shénme dū bǐ tā suǒ zuò de hǎo héng héng tā de miàn kǒng què wán quán bù yóu zì zhù dì（ sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí shì xǐ huān shēng lǐ xué de， tā rèn wéi zhè shì nǎo shén jīng de fǎn shè zuò yòng②） héng héng wán quán bù yóu zì zhù dì tū rán fú xiàn chū tā nà sù cháng de、 shàn liáng de、 yīn 'ér chī yú de wēi xiào。
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① duō lì shì tā de qī zǐ dá lǐ yà de yīng wén míng zì。
② zài《 ān nà · kǎ liè níng nà》 xiě chéng zhī qián bù jiǔ， zài de yī fèn zá zhì shàng，《 nǎo shén jīng de fǎn shè zuò yòng》 de zuò zhě xiè qiē nuò fū jiào shòu zhèng hé qí tā de kē xué jiā jìn xíng zhe jī liè de lùn zhàn。 duì yú zhè zhǒng shì qíng yī zhī bàn jiě de 'ào bù lóng sī jī dū qīng 'ér yì jǔ dì xiǎng qǐ zhè gè shù yǔ， kě jiàn zhè chǎng lùn zhàn céng yǐn qǐ liǎo dāng shí gōng zhòng de chōng fēn zhù yì。
wèile zhè zhǒng chī yú de wēi xiào， tā bù néng ráo shù zì jǐ。 kàn jiàn nà wēi xiào， duō lì hǎo xiàng gǎn dào ròu tǐ de tòng kǔ yī bān zhànlì qǐ lái， yǐ tā tè yòu de huǒ qì tuō kǒu shuō chū liǎo yī lián chuàn cán kù de huà， jiù chōng chū liǎo fáng jiān。 cóng cǐ yǐ hòu， tā jiù bù yuàn jiàn tā zhàng fū liǎo。
“ zhè dū yào guài nà chī yú de wēi xiào，” sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí xiǎng。
“ dàn shì zěn me bàn ní？ zěn me bàn ní？” tā jué wàng dì zì yán zì yǔ shuō， zhǎo bù chū dá 'àn lái。 èr
sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí shì yī gè zhōng shí yú zì jǐ de rén。 tā bù néng zì qī qī rén， bù néng shǐ zì jǐ xiāng xìn tā hòu huǐ tā de xíng wéi。 tā shì yī gè sān shí sì suì、 piào liàng duō qíng de nán zǐ， tā de qī zǐ jǐn jǐn bǐ tā xiǎo yī suì， ér qiě zuò liǎo wǔ gè huó zhe、 liǎng gè sǐ liǎo de hái zǐ de mǔ qīn， tā bù 'ài tā， zhè tā xiàn zài bìng bù jué dé hòu huǐ。 tā hòu huǐ de zhǐ shì tā méi yòu néng gòu hěn hǎo dì mán guò tā de qī zǐ。 dàn shì tā gǎn dào liǎo tā de chǔjìng de yī qiē kùn nán， hěn tì tā de qī zǐ、 xiǎo hái hé zì jǐ nán guò。 tā yě xǔ néng xiǎng bàn fǎ bǎ tā de zuì guò yǐn mán zhù tā de qī zǐ， yào shì tā zǎo liào dào， zhè gè xiāo xī huì zhè yàng yǐng xiǎng tā。 tā cóng lái méi yòu qīng xī dì kǎo lǜ guò zhè gè wèn tí， dàn tā mó mó hú hú dì gǎn dào tā de qī zǐ zǎo yǐ huái yí tā duì tā bù zhōng shí， tā zhǐ shì zhuāng zuò méi yòu kàn jiàn bà liǎo。 tā shèn zhì yǐ wéi， tā zhǐ shì yī gè xián qī liáng mǔ， yī gè pí bèi de、 jiàn jiàn shuāi lǎo de、 bù zài nián qīng、 yě bù zài měi lì、 háo bù rě rén zhù mùdì nǚ rén， yīngdāng chū yú gōng píng xīn duì tā kuān dà yī xiē。 jiēguǒ què wán quán xiāng fǎn。
“ āi， kě pà yā！ kě pà yā！” sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí jìn zài zì yán zì yǔ， xiǎng bù chū bàn fǎ lái。“ yǐ qián yī qiē shì duō me shùn suì hē！ wǒ men guò dé duō kuài huó； tā yīn wéi hái zǐ men 'ér gǎn dào mǎn zú hé xìng fú； wǒ cóng lái shénme shì qíng yě bù gān shè tā； suí zhe tā de yì sī qù zhào guǎn xiǎo hái hé jiā shì。 zì rán， zāo gāo de shì， tā shì wǒ men jiā lǐ de jiā tíng nǚ jiào shī。 zhēn zāo！ hé jiā lǐ de jiā tíng nǚ jiào shī hú lái， wèi miǎn yòu diǎn yōng sú， xià liú。 dàn shì yī gè duō piào liàng de jiā tíng nǚ jiào shī yā！（ tā lì lì zài mù dì huí xiǎng zhe luó lán gū niàn de 'è zuò jù de hēi yǎn jīng hé tā de wēi xiào。） dàn shì bì jìng， tā zài wǒ men jiā lǐ de shí hòu， wǒ cóng lái wèi gǎn fàng sì guò。 zuì zāo de jiù shì tā yǐ jīng…… hǎo xiàng mìng gāi rú cǐ！ āi， āi！ dàn shì zěn me， zěn me bàn yā？”
chú liǎo shēng huó suǒ gěi yú yī qiē zuì fù zá zuì nán jiě jué de wèn tí de nà gè yī bān de jiě dá zhī wài， zài yě dé bù dào qí tā jiě dá liǎo。 nà jiě dá jiù shì： rén bì xū zài rì cháng de xū yào zhōng shēng huó héng héng nà jiù shì， wàng huái yī qiē。 yào zài shuì mián zhōng wàng diào yōu chóu xiàn zài yǐ bù kě néng， zhì shǎo yě dé dào yè jiān cái xíng； tā xiàn zài yòu bù néng gòu huí dào jiǔ píng nǚ rén suǒ chàng de yīnyuè zhōng qù； yīn cǐ tā zhǐ hǎo zài bái zhòu mèng zhōng xiāo chóu jiě mèn。
“ wǒ men děng zhe qiáo bā，” sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí zì yán zì yǔ， tā zhàn qǐ lái， chuān shàng yī jiàn chèn zhe lán sè chóu lǐ de huī sè chén yī， bǎ yāo dài dǎ liǎo yī gè jié， yú shì， shēn shēn dì wǎng tā de kuān kuò xiōng táng lǐ xī liǎo yī kǒu qì， tā bǎi kāi tā nà shuāng nà me qīng kuài dì zài zhe tā de féi pàng shēn tǐ de bā zì jiǎo， mài zhe sù cháng de wěn zhòng bù fá zǒu dào chuāng qián， tā lā kāi bǎi yè chuāng， yòng lì 'àn líng。 tā de qīn xìn pú rén mǎ tè wéi lì kè yìng shēng chū xiàn， bǎ tā de yī fú、 cháng xuē hé diàn bào ná lái liǎo。 lǐfà jiàng xié zhe lǐfà yòng jù gēn zài mǎ tè wéi hòu miàn zǒu jìn lái。
“ yá mén lǐ yòu shénme gōng wén sòng lái méi yòu？” sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí wèn， jiē guò diàn bào， zài jìng zǐ miàn qián zuò xià。
“ zài zhuō shàng，” mǎ tè wéi huí dá， huái zhe tóng qíng xún wèn dì piē liǎo tā de zhù rén yī yǎn； tíng liǎo yī huì， tā liǎn shàng fú zhe jiǎo kuài de wēi xiào bǔ chōng shuō：“ mǎ chē lǎo bǎn nà 'ér yòu rén lái guò。”
sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí méi yòu huí dá， zhǐ zài jìng lǐ piē liǎo mǎ tè wéi yī yǎn。 cóng tā men zài jìng zǐ lǐ jiāo huàn de yǎn sè zhōng， kě yǐ kàn chū lái tā men bǐ cǐ hěn liǎo jiě。 sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí de yǎn sè sì hū zài wèn：“ nǐ wèishénme duì wǒ shuō zhè gè？ nǐ nán dào bù zhī dào？”
mǎ tè wéi bǎ shǒu fàng jìn wài tào kǒu dài lǐ， shēn chū yī zhǐ jiǎo， mò mò dì、 shàn liáng dì、 dài zhe yī sī wēi xiào níng shì zhe tā de zhù rén。
“ wǒ jiào tā men lǐ bài rì zài lái， bù dào nà shí hòu bù yào bái fèi qì lì lái má fán nín huò tā men zì jǐ，” tā shuō， tā xiǎn rán shì shì xiān zhǔn bèi hǎo zhè jù huà de。
sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí kàn chū lái mǎ tè wéi xiǎng yào kāi kāi wán xiào， yǐn dé rén jiā zhù yì zì jǐ。 tā chāi kāi diàn bào kàn liǎo yī biàn， chuài cè zhe diàn bào lǐ shí cháng pīn cuò de zì yǎn， tā de liǎn sè kāi lǎng liǎo。
“ mǎ tè wéi， wǒ mèi mèi 'ān nà · ā 'ěr kǎ jì yé fū nà míng tiān yào lái liǎo，” tā shuō， zuò shǒu shì yào lǐfà jiàng de guāng huá fēng mǎn de shǒu tíng yī huì， tā zhèng zài cóng tā de cháng cháng de、 quán qū de luò sāi hú zǐ zhōng jiān tì chū yī tiáo dàn hóng sè de wén lù lái。
“ xiè xiè shàng dì！” mǎ tè wéi shuō， yóu zhè huí dá jiù xiǎn shì chū tā xiàng tā de zhù rén yī yàng liǎo jiě zhè cì lái fǎng de zhòng dà yì yì， nà jiù shì， ān nà · ā 'ěr kǎ jì yé fū nà， tā suǒ xǐ huān de mèi mèi， yě xǔ huì cù shǐ fū qī hé hǎo qǐ lái。
“ yī gè rén， hái shì hé tā zhàng fū yī dào？” mǎ tè wéi wèn。
sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí bù néng gòu huí dá， yīn wéi lǐfà jiàng zhèng zài tì tā de shàng chún， yú shì jǔ qǐ yī gè shǒu zhǐ lái。 mǎ tè wéi cháo jìng zǐ lǐ diǎn diǎn tóu。
“ yī gè rén。 yào zài lóu shàng shōu shí hǎo yī jiān fáng jiān má？”
“ qù gào sù dá lǐ yà · yà lì shān dé luó fū nà： tā huì fēn fù de。”
“ dá lǐ yà · yà lì shān dé luó fū nà？” mǎ tè wéi hǎo xiàng huái yí sì dì zhòng fù zhe。
“ shì de， qù gào sù tā。 bǎ diàn bào ná qù； jiāo gěi tā， zhào tā fēn fù de qù bàn。”
“ nín yào qù shì yī shì má，” mǎ tè wéi xīn zhōng míng bái， dàn tā què zhǐ shuō：
“ shì de， lǎo yé。”
dāng mǎ tè wéi tà zhe nà shuāng gē zī zuò xiǎng de cháng xuē， shǒu lǐ ná zhe diàn bào， màn tūn tūn dì zǒu huí fáng jiān lái de shí hòu， sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí yǐ jīng xǐ hǎo liǎo liǎn， shū guò liǎo tóu fā， zhèng zài yù bèi chuān yī fú。 lǐfà jiàng yǐ jīng zǒu liǎo。
“ dá lǐ yà · yà lì shān dé luó fū nà jiào wǒ duì nín shuō tā yào zǒu liǎo。 ràng tā héng héng jiù shì shuō nín héng héng gāo xīng zěn yàng bàn jiù zěn yàng bàn bā，” tā shuō， zhǐ yòu tā de yǎn jīng hán zhe xiào yì， rán hòu bǎ shǒu fàng jìn kǒu dài lǐ， wāi zhe nǎo dài xié shì zhe zhù rén。
sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí chén mò liǎo yī huì。 suí jí yī zhǒng wēn hé de 'ér yòu yòu jǐ fēn qī cè de wēi xiào liú lù zài tā de hǎo kàn de miàn kǒng shàng。
“ e， mǎ tè wéi？” tā shuō， yáo yáo tóu。
“ bù yào jǐn， lǎo yé； shì qíng zì huì hǎo qǐ lái de。” mǎ tè wéi shuō。
“ zì huì hǎo qǐ lái de？”
“ shì de， lǎo yé。”
“ nǐ zhè yàng xiǎng má？ shuí lái liǎo？” sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí wèn， tīng jiàn mén wài yòu nǚ rén de yī fú de jiū n shēng。
“ wǒ，” yī gè jiān dìng 'ér yú kuài de nǚ rén shēng yīn shuō， rǔ mǔ mǎ tè liào nà · fěi lì méng nuò fū nà de yán jùn de má liǎn cóng mén hòu shēn jìn lái。
“ ò， shénme shì， mǎ tè liào nà？” sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí wèn， zǒu dào tā miàn qián。
suī rán sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí zài qī zǐ miàn qián yī wú shì chù， ér qiě tā zì jǐ yě gǎn jué dào zhè diǎn， dàn shì jiā lǐ jīhū měi gè rén（ jiù lián dá lǐ yà · yà lì shān dé luó fū nà de xīn fù， nà gè rǔ mǔ yě zài nèi，） dū zhàn zài tā zhè biān。
“ ò， shénme shì？” tā yōu chóu dì wèn。
“ dào tā nà lǐ qù， lǎo yé， zài rèn yī cì cuò bā。 shàng dì huì bāng zhù nín de。 tā shì zhè yàng tòng kǔ， kàn jiàn tā dū jiào rén shāng xīn； ér qiě jiā lǐ yī qiēdōu nòng dé luàn qī bā zāo liǎo。 lǎo yé， nín gāi lián mǐn lián mǐn hái zǐ men。 rèn gè cuò bā， lǎo yé。 zhè shì méi yòu bàn fǎ de！ yào tú kuài huó， jiù zhǐ hǎo……”
“ dàn shì tā bù yuàn jiàn wǒ。”
“ jìn nín de běn fēn。 shàng dì shì cí bēi de， xiàng shàng dì dǎo gào， lǎo yé， xiàng shàng dì dǎo gào bā。”
“ hǎo de， nǐ zǒu bā，” sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí shuō， tū rán zhànghóng liǎo liǎn。“ wèi， gěi wǒ chuān shàng yī fú。” tā zhuànxiàng mǎ tè wéi shuō， yì rán jué rán dì tuō xià chén yī。
mǎ tè wéi yǐ jīng jǔ qǐ chèn yī， xiàng mǎ jǐng 'è yī yàng， chuī qù liǎo shàng miàn de yī diǎn shénme kàn bù jiàn de hēi diǎn， tā dài zhe xiǎn rán de yú kuài shén qíng bǎ tā tào zài tā zhù rén de bǎo yǎng dé hěn hǎo de shēn tǐ shàng。 sān
sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí chuān hǎo liǎo yī fú， zài shēn shàng sǎ liǎo xiē xiāng shuǐ， lā zhí chèn yī xiù kǒu， zhào cháng bǎ xiāng yān、 xiù zhēn bù、 huǒ chái hé nà yòu zhe shuāngchóng liàn zǐ hé biǎo zhuì de biǎo fēn zhì zài gè gè kǒu dài lǐ， rán hòu dǒu kāi shǒu pà， suī rán tā hěn bù xìng， dàn shì tā gǎn dào qīng shuǎng， fēn fāng， jiàn kāng hé ròu tǐ shàng de shū shì， tā liǎng tuǐ wēi wēi yáo bǎi zhe zǒu jìn liǎo cān shì， tā de kā fēi yǐ bǎi zài nà lǐ děng tā， kā fēi bàng biān fàng zhe xìn jiàn hé yá mén lǐ sòng lái de gōng wén。
tā yuè dú xìn jiàn。 yòu yī fēng lìng rén jí bù yú kuài， shì yī gè xiǎng yào mǎi tā qī zǐ dì chǎn shàng de yī zuò shù lín de shāng rén xiě lái de， chū mài zhè zuò shù lín shì jué duì bì yào de； dàn shì xiàn zài， zài tā méi yòu hé qī zǐ hé jiě yǐ qián， zhè gè wèn tí shì wú fǎ tán de。 zuì bù yú kuài de shì tā de jīn qián shàng de lì hài guān xì yào qiān shè dào tā jí dài gēn tā qī zǐ hé jiě de wèn tí shàng qù。 xiǎng dào tā huì bèi zhè zhǒng lì hài guān xì suǒ zuǒ yòu， tā huì wèile mài shù lín de yuán gù qù gēn tā qī zǐ jiǎng hé héng héng xiǎng dào zhè gè， jiù shǐ tā bù yú kuài liǎo。
kàn wán liǎo xìn， sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí bǎ yá mén lǐ sòng lái de gōng wén lā dào miàn qián， xùn sù dì yuè guò liǎo liǎng jiàn gōng shì， yòng cū qiān bǐ zuò liǎo xiē jì hào， jiù bǎ gōng wén tuī zài yī bàng， duān qǐ kā fēi； tā yī miàn hē kā fēi， yī miàn dǎ kāi yóu mò wèi gān de chén bào， kāi shǐ dú qǐ lái。
sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí dìng yuè yī fèn zì yóu zhù yì pài de bào zhǐ， bù shì jí duān zì yóu zhù yì pài de 'ér shì dài biǎo dà duō shù rén yì jiàn de bào zhǐ。 suī rán tā duì yú kē xué、 yì shù hé bìng méi yòu tè bié xīng qù， dàn tā duì zhè yī qièwèn tí què jiān chí bào zhe yǔ dà duō shù rén hé tā de bào zhǐ yī zhì de yì jiàn。 zhǐ yòu zài dà duō shù rén gǎi biàn liǎo yì jiàn de shí hòu， tā zhè cái suí zhe gǎi biàn， huò zhě， gèng yán gé dì shuō， tā bìng méi yòu gǎi biàn， ér shì yì jiàn běn shēn bù zhī bù jué dì zài tā xīn zhōng gǎi biàn liǎo。
sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí bìng méi yòu xuǎn zé tā de zhù zhāng hé jiàn jiě； zhè xiē zhù zhāng hé jiàn jiě shì zì dòng dào tā zhè lǐ lái de， zhèng rú tā bìng méi yòu xuǎn zé mào zǐ hé shàng yī de yàng shì， ér zhǐ shì chuān dài zhe dà jiādōu zài chuān dài de。 shēng huó yú shàng liú shè huì lǐ de tā héng héng yóu yú pǔ tōng zài chéng nián qī fā yù chéng shú de， duì yú mǒu zhǒng jīng shén huó dòng de yào qiú héng héng bì xū yòu jiàn jiě zhèng rú bì xū yòu mào zǐ yī yàng。 rú guǒ shuō tā 'ài zì yóu zhù yì de jiàn jiě shèng guò 'ài tā zhōu wéi xǔ duō rén bào zhe de bǎo shǒu jiàn jiě shì yòu dào lǐ de， nà dǎo bù shì yóu yú tā rèn wéi zì yóu zhù yì gèng hé lǐ， ér shì yóu yú tā gèng shì hé tā de shēng huó fāng shì。 zì yóu dǎng shuō yī qiēdōu shì huài de， díquè， sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí fù zhài lěi lěi， zhèng quē qián yòng。 zì yóu dǎng shuō jié hūn shì wán quán guò shí de zhì dù， bì xū gǎi gé cái xíng； ér jiā tíng shēng huó díquè méi yòu gěi sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí duō shǎo lè qù， ér qiě bī dé tā shuō huǎng zuò jiǎ， nà shì wán quán wéi fǎn tā de běn xìng de。 zì yóu dǎng shuō， huò zhě wú níng shuō shì 'àn shì， zōng jiào de zuò yòng zhǐ zài yú qián zhì rén mín zhōng nà xiē yě mán jiē céng； ér sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí lián zuò yī cì duǎn duǎn de lǐ bài， dū zhàn dé yāo suān tuǐ tòng， ér qiě xiǎng bù tòu jì rán xiàn shì shēng huó guò dé zhè me yú kuài， nà me yòng suǒ yòu zhè xiē kě pà 'ér kuā zhāng de yán cí lái tán lùn lái shì hái yòu shénme yì sī。 ér qiě， ài shuō xiào huà de sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí cháng xǐ huān shuō： rú guǒ rén yào kuā yào zì jǐ de zǔ xiān， tā jiù bù yīngdāng dào liú lǐ kè① wéi zhǐ， ér bù chéng rèn tā de shǐ zǔ héng héng hóu zǐ， tā xǐ huān yòng zhè yī lèi de huà qù nán dǎo lǎo shí de rén。 jiù zhè yàng， zì yóu zhù yì de qīng xiàng chéng liǎo sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí de yī zhǒng xí pǐ， tā xǐ huān tā de bào zhǐ， zhèng rú tā xǐ huān fàn hòu chōu yī zhī xuějiā yī yàng， yīn wéi tā zài tā de nǎo zǐ lǐ sàn bù liǎo yī céng qīng wù。 tā dú shè lùn， shè lùn rèn wéi， zài xiàn zài zhè gè shí dài， jiào 'áo jí jìn zhù yì yòu tūn méi yī qiē bǎo shǒu fènzǐ de wēi xiǎn， jiào 'áo zhèng fǔ yīngdāng cǎi qǔ shìdàng cuò shī pū miè de huò hài， zhè lèi jiào 'áo shì háo wú yì sī de； zhèng xiāng fǎn，“ zhào wǒ men de yì jiàn， wēi xiǎn bìng bù zài yú jiǎ xiǎng dídí huò hài， ér zài yú zǔ 'ài jìn bù de mò shǒu chéng guī，” yún yún。 tā yòu dú liǎo lìng wài yī piān guān yú cái zhèng de lùn wén， qí zhōng tí dào liǎo biān qìn hé mì lè②， bìng duì zhèng fǔ mǒu bù yòu suǒ fěng cì。 píng zhe tā tè yòu de jī mǐn， tā lǐng huì liǎo měi jù 'àn fěng de yì yì， cāi tòu liǎo tā cóng hé 'ér lái， zhēn duì shénme rén， chū yú shénme dòng jī 'ér fā； zhè， xiàng píng cháng yī yàng， jǐyǔ tā yī dìng de mǎn zú。
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① liú lǐ kè（ sǐ yú 879）， de jiàn guó zhě， liú lǐ kè wáng cháo（ 869 héng 1598） de shǐ zǔ。
② biān qìn（ 1748 héng 1832）， yīng guó zī chǎn jiē jí fǎ lǜ xué jiā hé lún lǐ xué jiā， gōng lì zhù yì de dài biǎo rén wù。 mì lè（ 1806 héng 1372）， yīng guó zhé xué jiā， huó dòng jiā， jīng jì xué jiā。 zài lún lǐ xué shàng tā jiē jìn biān qìn de gōng lì zhù yì。
dàn shì jīn tiān zhè zhǒng mǎn zú bèi mǎ tè liào nà · fěi lì méng nuò fū nà de quàn gào hé jiā zhōng de bù rú yì zhuàng tài pò huài liǎo。 hái zài bào shàng kàn dào bèi sī tè bó jué① yǐ fù wēi sī bā dēng② de chuán shuō， kàn dào yī zhì báifà、 chū shòu qīng biàn mǎ chē hé mǒu qīng nián zhēng qiú zhí yè de guǎng gào； dàn shì zhè xiē xīn wén bào dǎo bìng méi yòu xiàng píng cháng nà yàng jǐyǔ tā yī zhǒng níng jìng de jī fěng de mǎn zú。
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① bèi sī tè bó jué（ 1809 héng 1886）， ào xiōng dì guó shǒuxiàng， bǐ sī mài de zhèng dí。
② wēi sī bā dēng， dé guó xī bù de chéng shì， zài lāi yīn hé pàn， shì kuàng quán liáo yǎng dì。
kàn guò liǎo bào， hē wán liǎo dì 'èr bēi kā fēi， chī wán liǎo mǒ shàng huáng yóu de miàn bāo， tā lì qǐ shēn lái， fú qù luò zài bèi xīn shàng de miàn bāo xiè， rán hòu， tǐng qǐ kuān kuò de xiōng táng， tā kuài lè dì wēi xiào zhe， bìng bù shì yīn wéi tā xīn lǐ yòu shénme tè bié yú kuài de shì héng héng kuài lè de wēi xiào shì yóu liáng hǎo de xiāo huà yǐn qǐ de。
dàn shì zhè kuài lè de wēi xiào lì kè shǐ tā xiǎng qǐ liǎo yī qiē， tā yòu biàn dé chén sī liǎo。
kě yǐ tīng dào mén wài yòu liǎng gè xiǎo hái de shēng yīn（ sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí tīng chū lái shì tā de xiǎo nán hái gé lǐ shā hé tā de dà nǚ 'ér tǎ ní yà de shēng yīn）， tā men zhèng zài bān nòng shénme dōng xī， dǎ fān liǎo。
“ wǒ duì nǐ shuō liǎo bù yào jiào chéng kè zuò zài chē dǐng shàng。” xiǎo nǚ hái yòng yīng yǔ rǎng zhe，“ shí qǐ lái！”
“ yī qiēdōu shì luàn zāo zāo de，” sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí xiǎng，“ hái zǐ men méi yòu rén guǎn， dào chù luàn páo。” tā zǒu dào mén biān qù jiào tā men。 tā men pāo xià nà dāng huǒ chē yòng de xiá zǐ， xiàng fù qīn zǒu lái。
nà xiǎo nǚ hái， tā fù qīn de bǎo bèi， mǎng zhuàng dì páo jìn lái， bào zhù tā， xiào xī xī dì diào zài tā de bógěng shàng， tā lǎo xǐ huān wén tā de luò sāi hú zǐ sàn fā chū de wén guàn de xiāng qì。 zuì hòu xiǎo nǚ hái wěn liǎo wěn tā nà yīn wéi wān qū de zī shì 'ér zhànghóng de、 shǎn shuò zhe cí 'ài guāng huī de miàn kǒng， sōng kāi liǎo tā de liǎng shǒu， dài yào páo kāi qù， dàn shì tā fù qīn lā zhù liǎo tā。
“ mā mā zěn yàng liǎo？” tā wèn， fǔ mō zhe tā nǚ 'ér de huá rùn róu ruǎn de xiǎo bógěng。“ nǐ hǎo，” tā shuō， xiàng zǒu shàng lái wèn hòu tā de nán hái wēi xiào zhe shuō。
tā yì shí dào tā bìng bù zěn me 'ài nà nán hái， dàn tā zǒng shì jìn liàng tóng yàng duì dài； kě shì nà nán hái gǎn jué dào zhè yī diǎn， duì yú tā fù qīn de lěng dàn de wēi xiào bìng méi yòu bào yǐ wēi xiào。
“ mā mā？ tā qǐ lái liǎo，” nǚ hái huí dá。
sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí tàn liǎo kǒu qì。“ zhè me shuō tā yòu zhěng zhěng yī yè méi yòu shuì，” tā xiǎng。
“ ò， tā kuài huó má？”
xiǎo nǚ hái zhī dào， tā fù qīn hé mǔ qīn chǎo liǎo jià， mǔ qīn bù huì kuài huó， fù qīn yě yī dìng míng bái de， tā zhè me suí suí biàn biàn dì wèn tā zhǐ shì zài zuò jiǎ。 yīn cǐ tā wéi tā fù qīn zhànghóng liǎo liǎn。 tā lì kè jué chá chū lái， yě liǎn hóng liǎo。
“ wǒ bù zhī dào，” tā shuō。“ tā méi yòu shuō yào wǒ men shàng kè， tā zhǐ shì shuō yào wǒ men gēn gǔ lǐ xiǎo jiě dào wài zǔ mǔ jiā qù zǒu zǒu。”
“ ò， qù bā， tǎ ní yà， wǒ de bǎo bǎo。 ò， děng yī děng！” tā shuō， hái lā láo tā， fǔ mō zhe tā de róu ruǎn de xiǎo shǒu。
tā cóng bì lú shàng qǔ xià tā zuó tiān fàng zài nà lǐ de yī xiǎo hé táng guǒ， jiǎn tā zuì 'ài chī de， gěi liǎo tā liǎng kuài， yī kuài qiǎo kè lì hé yī kuài ruǎn táng。
“ gěi gé lǐ shā？” xiǎo nǚ hái zhǐ zhe qiǎo kè lì shuō。
“ shì， shì。” yòu fǔ mō liǎo yī xià tā de xiǎo jiān bǎng， tā wěn liǎo wěn tā de fā gēn hé bógěng， jiù fàng tā zǒu liǎo。
“ mǎ chē tào hǎo liǎo，” mǎ tè wéi shuō，“ dàn shì yòu gè rén wèile qǐng yuàn de shì yào jiàn nín。”
“ lái liǎo hěn jiǔ má？” sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí wèn。
“ bàn gè zhōng tóu de guāng jǐng。”
“ wǒ duì nǐ shuō liǎo duō shǎo cì， yòu rén lái mǎ shàng gào sù wǒ！”
“ zhì shǎo zǒng dé ràng nín hē wán kā fēi，” mǎ tè wéi shuō， tā de shēng diào cū lǔ 'ér yòu chéng kěn， shǐ dé rén bù néng gòu shēng qì。
“ nà me， mǎ shàng qǐng nà gè rén jìn lái bā，” ào bù lóng sī jī shuō， fán nǎo dì zhòu zhe méi。
nà qǐng yuàn zhě， cān móu dà wèi jiā lǐ níng de guǎ qī， lái qǐng qiú yī jiàn bàn bù dào de 'ér qiě bù hé lǐ de shì qíng； dàn shì sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí zhào lì qǐng tā zuò xià， liú xīn dì tīng tā shuō wán， méi yòu dǎ duàn tā yī jù， bìng qiě gěi liǎo tā xiáng xì de zhǐ shì， gào sù tā zěn yàng yǐ jí xiàng shuí qù qǐng qiú， shèn zhì hái yòng tā de cū dà、 sǎnmàn、 yōu měi 'ér qīng chǔ de bǐ jì， mǐn jié 'ér liú lì dì tì tā xiě liǎo yī fēng xìn gěi yī wèi kě yǐ bāng tā máng de rén。 dǎ fā zǒu liǎo cān móu dà wèi de guǎ qī yǐ hòu， sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí ná qǐ mào zǐ， zhàn zhù xiǎng liǎo xiǎng tā wàng jì shénme méi yòu。 kàn lái chú liǎo tā yào wàng jì de héng héng tā de qī zǐ yǐ wài， tā shénme yě méi yòu wàng jì。
“ ō， shì de！” tā chuí xià tóu， tā de piào liàng miàn kǒng dài zhe kǔ nǎo de biǎo qíng。
“ qù ní， hái shì bù qù？” tā zì yán zì yǔ； ér tā nèi xīn de shēng yīn gào sù tā， tā bù yīngdāng qù， nà chú liǎo nòng xū zuò jiǎ bù huì yòu bàng de jiēguǒ； yào gǎi shàn、 mí bǔ tā men de guān xì shì bù kě néng de， yīn wéi yào shǐ tā zài jù yòu mèi lì 'ér qiě néng gòu yǐn rén 'ài lián， huò zhě shǐ tā biàn chéng yī gè bù néng liàn 'ài de lǎo rén， dōubù kě néng。 xiàn zài chú liǎo qī piàn shuō huǎng zhī wài bù huì yòu bàng de jiēguǒ； ér qī piàn shuō huǎng yòu shì wéi fǎn tā de tiān xìng de。
“ kě shì chí zǎo zǒng dé zuò de； zhè yàng xià qù bù xíng，” tā shuō， jí lì gǔ qǐ yǒng qì。 tā tǐng zhe xiōng， ná chū yī zhī zhǐ yān， xī liǎo liǎng kǒu， jiù tóu jìn zhū mǔ bèi ké yān huī dié lǐ qù， rán hòu mài zhe xùn sù de bù fá zǒu guò kè tīng， dǎ kāi liǎo tōng dào tā qī zǐ qǐn shì de lìng yī shàn fáng mén。 sì
dá lǐ yà · yà lì shān dé luó fū nà chuānzhuó shū zhuāng duǎn yī zhàn zài nà lǐ， tā nà céng jīng shì fēng mǎn měi lì、 xiàn zài què biàn xī shū liǎo de tóu fā， yòng fā zhēn pán zài tā de nǎo hòu， tā de miàn róng xiāo shòu qiáo cuì， yī shuāng chī jīng de dà yǎn jīng， yīn wéi tā miàn róng de xiāo shòu 'ér xiǎn dé gèng jiā chù mù。 gè shì gè yàng de wù jiàn sǎnluàn dì bǎi mǎn yī fáng jiān， tā zhàn zài zhè xiē wù jiàn dāng zhōng yī gè kāi zhe de yī guì qián miàn， tā zhèng cóng lǐ miàn tiǎo jiǎn shénme dōng xī。 tīng dào tā zhàng fū de jiǎo bù shēng， tā tíng zhù liǎo， cháo mén kǒu wàng zhe， tú rán xiǎng yào zhuāng chū yī zhǒng yán lì 'ér qīng miè de biǎo qíng。 tā gǎn jué dé tā hài pà tā， hài pà kuài yào dào lái de huì jiàn。 tā zhèng zài qǐ tú zuò tā sān tiān yǐ lái yǐ jīng qǐ tú zuò liǎo shí lái huí de shì qíng héng héng bǎ tā zì jǐ hé hái zǐ men de yī fú qīng lǐ chū lái， dài dào tā mǔ qīn nà lǐ qù héng héng dàn tā hái shì méi yòu zhè yàng zuò de jué xīn； dàn shì xiàn zài yòu xiàng qián jǐ cì yī yàng， tā jìn zài zì yán zì yǔ dì shuō， shì qíng bù néng xiàng zhè yàng xià qù， tā yī dìng yào xiǎng gè bàn fǎ chéng fá tā， xiū rǔ tā， nǎ pà bào fù yī xià， shǐ tā cháng cháng tā gěi yú tā de tòng kǔ de yī xiǎo bù fēn yě hǎo。 tā hái shì jì xù duì zì jǐ shuō tā yào lí kāi tā， dàn tā zì jǐ yě yì shí dào zhè shì bù kě néng de； zhè shì bù kě néng de， yīn wéi tā bù néng bǎi tuō nà zhǒng bǎ tā dāng zì jǐ zhàng fū kàn dài、 ér qiě 'ài tā de xí guàn。 kuàng qiě， tā gǎn dào jiǎ rú zài zhè lǐ， zài tā zì jǐ jiā lǐ， tā shàng qiě bù néng hěn hǎo dì zhào kàn tā de wǔ gè xiǎo hái， nà me， zài tā yào bǎ tā men tōng tōng dài qù de dì fāng， tā men jiù huì gèng zāo。 shì shí shàng， zài zhè sān tiān nèi， dǐng xiǎo de yī gè hái zǐ yīn wéi chī liǎo biàn liǎo zhì de tānɡ hài bìng liǎo， qí yú de zuó tiān chàbù duō méi yòu chī shàng wǔ fàn。 tā yì shí dào yào zǒu kāi shì bù kě néng de； dàn shì， hái zài zì qī qī rén， tā jì xù qīng lǐ dōng xī， zhuāng chū yào zǒu de yàng zǐ。
"Oh, it's awful! oh dear, oh dear! awful!" Stepan Arkadyevitch kept repeating to himself, and he could think of nothing to be done. "And how well things were going up till now! how well we got on! She was contented and happy in her children; I never interfered with her in anything; I let her manage the children and the house just as she liked. It's true it's bad HER having been a governess in our house. That's bad! There's something common, vulgar, in flirting with one's governess. But what a governess!" (He vividly recalled the roguish black eyes of Mlle. Roland and her smile.) "But after all, while she was in the house, I kept myself in hand. And the worst of it all is that she's already...it seems as if ill-luck would have it so! Oh, oh! But what, what is to be done?"
There was no solution, but that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble. That answer is: one must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself. To forget himself in sleep was impossible now, at least till nighttime; he could not go back now to the music sung by the decanter-women; so he must forget himself in the dream of daily life.
"Then we shall see," Stepan Arkadyevitch said to himself, and getting up he put on a gray dressing-gown lined with blue silk, tied the tassels in a knot, and, drawing a deep breath of air into his broad, bare chest, he walked to the window with his usual confident step, turning out his feet that carried his full frame so easily. He pulled up the blind and rang the bell loudly. It was at once answered by the appearance of an old friend, his valet, Matvey, carrying his clothes, his boots, and a telegram. Matvey was followed by the barber with all the necessaries for shaving.
"Are there any papers form the office?" asked Stepan Arkadyevitch, taking the telegram and seating himself at the looking-glass.
"On the table," replied Matvey, glancing with inquiring sympathy at his master; and, after a short pause, he added with a sly smile, "They've sent from the carriage-jobbers."
Stepan Arkadyevitch made no reply, he merely glanced at Matvey in the looking-glass. In the glance, in which their eyes met in the looking-glass, it was clear that they understood one another. Stepan Arkadyevitch's eyes asked: "Why do you tell me that? don't you know?"
Matvey put his hands in his jacket pockets, thrust out one leg, and gazed silently, good-humoredly, with a faint smile, at his master.
"I told them to come on Sunday, and till then not to trouble you or themselves for nothing," he said. He had obviously prepared the sentence beforehand.
Stepan Arkadyevitch saw Matvey wanted to make a joke and attract attention to himself. Tearing open the telegram, he read it through, guessing at the words, misspelt as they always are in telegrams, and his face brightened.
"Matvey, my sister Anna Arkadyevna will be here tomorrow," he said, checking for a minute the sleek, plump hand of the barber, cutting a pink path through his long, curly whiskers.
"Thank God!" said Matvey, showing by this response that he, like his master, realized the significance of this arrival--that is, that Anna Arkadyevna, the sister he was so fond of, might bring about a reconciliation between husband and wife.
"Alone, or with her husband?" inquired Matvey.
Stepan Arkadyevitch could not answer, as the barber was at work on his upper lip, and he raised one finger. Matvey nodded at the looking-glass.
"Alone. Is the room to be got ready upstairs?"
"Inform Darya Alexandrovna: where she orders."
"Darya Alexandrovna?" Matvey repeated, as though in doubt.
"Yes, inform her. Here, take the telegram; give it to her, and then do what she tells you."
"You want to try it on," Matvey understood, but he only said, "Yes sir."
Stepan Arkadyevitch was already washed and combed and ready to be dressed, when Matvey, stepping deliberately in his creaky boots, came back into the room with the telegram in his hand. The barber had gone.
"Darya Alexandrovna told me to inform you that she is going away. Let him do--that is you--as he likes," he said, laughing only with his eyes, and putting his hands in his pockets, he watched his master with his head on one side. Stepan Arkadyevitch was silent a minute. Then a good-humored and rather pitiful smile showed itself on his handsome face.
"Eh, Matvey?" he said, shaking his head.
"It's all right, sir; she will come round," said Matvey.
"Come round?"
"Yes, sir."
"Do you think so? Who's there?" asked Stepan Arkadyevitch, hearing the rustle of a woman's dress at the door.
"It's I," said a firm, pleasant, woman's voice, and the stern, pockmarked face of Matrona Philimonovna, the nurse, was thrust in at the doorway.
"Well, what is it, Matrona?" queried Stepan Arkadyevitch, going up to her at the door.
Although Stepan Arkadyevitch was completely in the wrong as regards his wife, and was conscious of this himself, almost every one in the house (even the nurse, Darya Alexandrovna's chief ally) was on his side.
"Well, what now?" he asked disconsolately.
"Go to her, sir; own your fault again. Maybe God will aid you. She is suffering so, it's sad to hee her; and besides, everything in the house is topsy-turvy. You must have pity, sir, on the children. Beg her forgiveness, sir. There's no help for it! One must take the consequences..."
"But she won't see me."
"You do your part. God is merciful; pray to God, sir, pray to God."
"Come, that'll do, you can go," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, blushing suddenly. "Well now, do dress me." He turned to Matvey and threw off his dressing-gown decisively.
Matvey was already holding up the shirt like a horse's collar, and, blowing off some invisible speck, he slipped it with obvious pleasure over the well-groomed body of his master.
ào bù lóng sī jī jiā lǐ yī qiēdōu hùn luàn liǎo。 qī zǐ fā jué zhàng fū hé tā men jiā cóng qián de fǎ guó nǚ jiā tíng jiào shī yòu 'ài mèi guān xì， tā xiàng zhàng fū shēng míng tā bù néng hé tā zài zài yī gè wū zǐ lǐ zhù xià qù liǎo。 zhè yàng de zhuàng tài yǐ jīng jì xù liǎo sān tiān， bù zhǐ shì fū qī liǎng gè， jiù shì tā men quán jiā hé pú réndōu wèicǐ gǎn dào tòng kǔ。 jiā lǐ de měi gè réndōu jué dé tā men zhù zài yī qǐ méi yòu yì sī， ér qiě jué dé jiù shì zài rèn hé kè diàn lǐ píng shuǐ xiāng féng de rén yědōu bǐ tā men， ào bù lóng sī jī quán jiā hé pú rén gèng qíng tóu yì hé。 qī zǐ méi yòu lí kāi zì jǐ de fáng jiān yī bù， zhàng fū sān tiān bù zài jiā liǎo， xiǎo hái men xiàng shī liǎo guǎn jiào yī yàng zài jiā lǐ dào chù luàn páo。 yīng guó nǚ jiā tíng jiào shī hé nǚ guǎn jiā chǎo jià， gěi péng yǒu xiě liǎo xìn， qǐng tì tā zhǎo yī gè xīn de wèi zhì。
chú shī zuó tiān qià hǎo zài wǎn cān shí zǒu diào liǎo， chú niàn hé chē fū cí liǎo gōng。
zài chǎo jià hòu de dì sān tiān， sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí · ào bù lóng sī jī gōng jué héng héng tā zài jiāo jì chǎng lǐ shì jiào sī jì wǎ de héng héng zài zhào lì de shí jiān， zǎo chén bā diǎn zhōng xǐng lái， bù zài tā qī zǐ de qǐn shì， què zài tā shū fáng lǐ de róu pí shā fā shàng。 tā zài fù yú tánxìng de shā fā shàng bǎ tā de féi pàng de、 bǎo yǎng dé hěn hǎo de shēn tǐ fānzhuàn， hǎo xiàng yào zài shuì yī dà jué shìde， tā shǐ jìn bào zhù yī gè zhěn tóu， bǎ tā de liǎn jǐn jǐn dì wēi zhe tā； dàn shì tā tū rán tiào qǐ lái， zuò zài shā fā shàng， zhāng kāi yǎn jīng。
“ ò， ò， zěn me huí shì？” tā xiǎng， chóngwēn zhe tā de mèng jìng。“ zěn me huí shì， duì lā！ ā lā bīn zài dá mǔ shī tǎ tè ① qǐng kè； bù， bù shì dá mǔ shī tǎ tè， ér shì zài měi guó shénme dì fāng。 bù cuò， dá mǔ shī tǎ tè shì zài měi guó。 bù cuò， ā lā bīn zài bō lí zhuō shàng qǐng kè， zài zuò de réndōu chàng Ilmiotesoro ②， dàn yě bù shì Ilmiotesoro， ér shì bǐ nà gèng hǎo de； zhuō shàng hái yòu xiē xiǎo jiǔ píng， nà dōushì nǚ rén，” tā huí xiǎng zhe。
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① dá mǔ shī tǎ tè， xiàn jīn xī dé de yī gè chéng shì。
② yì dà lì yǔ： wǒ de bǎo bèi。
sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí de yǎn jīng kuài lè dì shǎn yào zhe， tā hán zhe wēi xiào chén sī。“ ò， zhēn shì yòu qù jí liǎo。 yòu wèi de shì qíng hái duō dé hěn， kě xī xǐng liǎo shuō bù chū lái， lián yì sī dū biǎo dá bù chū lái。” ér hòu kàn dào cóng yī fú luó shā chuāng wéi biān shàng shè rù de yī xiàn rì guāng， tā yú kuài dì bǎ jiǎo yán zhe shā fā biān shēn xià qù， yòng jiǎo qù sōu suǒ tā de tuō xié， nà shuāng tuō xié shì jīn sè róu pí de， shàng miàn yòu tā qī zǐ xiù de huā， shì tā qù nián shēng rì shí tā sòng gěi tā de lǐ wù； zhào tā jiǔ nián lái de xí guàn， měi tiān tā méi yòu qǐ lái， jiù xiàng qǐn shì lǐ cháng guà chén yī de dì fāng shēn chū shǒu qù。 tā zhè cái tū rán jì qǐ liǎo tā méi yòu hé wèishénme méi yòu shuì zài qī zǐ de fáng jiān 'ér shuì zài zì jǐ de shū fáng lǐ。 wēi xiào cóng tā de liǎn shàng xiāo shī， tā zhòu qǐ méi lái。
“ āi， āi， āi！” tā tàn xī， huí xiǎng zhe fā shēng de yī qiē shì qíng。 tā hé qī zǐ chǎo jià de měi gè xì jié， tā nà wú fǎ bǎi tuō de chǔjìng yǐ jí zuì zāo gāo de， tā zì jǐ de guò cuò， yòu yī qí yǒng shàng tā de xīn tóu。
“ shì de， tā bù huì ráo shù wǒ， tā yě bù néng ráo shù wǒ！ ér zuì zāo de shì zhè dū shì wǒ de guò cuò héng héng dōushì wǒ de guò cuò； dàn yě bù néng guài wǒ。 bēi jù jiù zài zhè lǐ！” tā chén sī zhe。“ āi， āi， āi！” tā jì qǐ zhè chǎng chǎo nào suǒ gěi yú tā de jí duān tòng kǔ de gǎn jué， jìn zài jué wàng dì zì bēi zì tàn。
zuì bù yú kuài de shì zuì chū de yī shùn jiān， dāng tā xīng gāo cǎi liè de， shǒu lǐ ná zhe yī zhǐ yù bèi gěi tā qī zǐ de dà lí， cóng jù chǎng huí lái de shí hòu， tā zài kè tīng lǐ méi yòu zhǎo dào tā qī zǐ， shǐ tā dà wéi chī jīng de shì， zài shū fáng lǐ yě méi yòu zhǎo dào， ér zhōng yú fā xiàn tā zài qǐn shì lǐ， shǒu lǐ ná zhe nà fēng xiè lòu liǎo yī qiē de dǎo méi de xìn。
tā héng héng nà gè lǎo shì máng máng lù lù hé yōu lǜ bù 'ān， ér qiě yǐ tā kàn lái， tóu nǎo jiǎn dān de duō lì①， dòng yě bù dòng dì zuò zài nà lǐ， shǒu lǐ ná zhe nà fēng xìn， dài zhe kǒng bù、 jué wàng hé fèn nù de biǎo qíng wàng zhe tā。
“ zhè shì shénme？ zhè？” tā wèn， zhǐ zhe nà fēng xìn。
huí xiǎng qǐ lái de shí hòu， sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí， xiàng cháng yòu de qíng xíng yī yàng， jué dé shì qíng běn shēn hái méi yòu tā huí dá qī zǐ de huà de tài dù nà me shǐ tā kǔ nǎo。
nà yī shùn jiān， zài tā shēn shàng fā shēng liǎo yī bān rén zài tā men de jí bù míng yù de xíng wéi tū rú qí lái dì bèi jiē fā liǎo de shí hòu suǒ cháng fā shēng de xiàn xiàng。 tā méi yòu néng gòu shǐ tā de liǎn sè shì yìng yú tā de guò shī bèi jiē chuān hòu tā zài qī zǐ miàn qián suǒ chù de dì wèi。 méi yòu gǎn dào shòu liǎo wěi qū， shǐ kǒu fǒu rèn， tì zì jǐ biàn hù， qǐng qiú ráo shù， shèn zhì yě méi yòu suǒ xìng bù zài hū héng héng suí biàn shénme dū bǐ tā suǒ zuò de hǎo héng héng tā de miàn kǒng què wán quán bù yóu zì zhù dì（ sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí shì xǐ huān shēng lǐ xué de， tā rèn wéi zhè shì nǎo shén jīng de fǎn shè zuò yòng②） héng héng wán quán bù yóu zì zhù dì tū rán fú xiàn chū tā nà sù cháng de、 shàn liáng de、 yīn 'ér chī yú de wēi xiào。
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① duō lì shì tā de qī zǐ dá lǐ yà de yīng wén míng zì。
② zài《 ān nà · kǎ liè níng nà》 xiě chéng zhī qián bù jiǔ， zài de yī fèn zá zhì shàng，《 nǎo shén jīng de fǎn shè zuò yòng》 de zuò zhě xiè qiē nuò fū jiào shòu zhèng hé qí tā de kē xué jiā jìn xíng zhe jī liè de lùn zhàn。 duì yú zhè zhǒng shì qíng yī zhī bàn jiě de 'ào bù lóng sī jī dū qīng 'ér yì jǔ dì xiǎng qǐ zhè gè shù yǔ， kě jiàn zhè chǎng lùn zhàn céng yǐn qǐ liǎo dāng shí gōng zhòng de chōng fēn zhù yì。
wèile zhè zhǒng chī yú de wēi xiào， tā bù néng ráo shù zì jǐ。 kàn jiàn nà wēi xiào， duō lì hǎo xiàng gǎn dào ròu tǐ de tòng kǔ yī bān zhànlì qǐ lái， yǐ tā tè yòu de huǒ qì tuō kǒu shuō chū liǎo yī lián chuàn cán kù de huà， jiù chōng chū liǎo fáng jiān。 cóng cǐ yǐ hòu， tā jiù bù yuàn jiàn tā zhàng fū liǎo。
“ zhè dū yào guài nà chī yú de wēi xiào，” sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí xiǎng。
“ dàn shì zěn me bàn ní？ zěn me bàn ní？” tā jué wàng dì zì yán zì yǔ shuō， zhǎo bù chū dá 'àn lái。 èr
sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí shì yī gè zhōng shí yú zì jǐ de rén。 tā bù néng zì qī qī rén， bù néng shǐ zì jǐ xiāng xìn tā hòu huǐ tā de xíng wéi。 tā shì yī gè sān shí sì suì、 piào liàng duō qíng de nán zǐ， tā de qī zǐ jǐn jǐn bǐ tā xiǎo yī suì， ér qiě zuò liǎo wǔ gè huó zhe、 liǎng gè sǐ liǎo de hái zǐ de mǔ qīn， tā bù 'ài tā， zhè tā xiàn zài bìng bù jué dé hòu huǐ。 tā hòu huǐ de zhǐ shì tā méi yòu néng gòu hěn hǎo dì mán guò tā de qī zǐ。 dàn shì tā gǎn dào liǎo tā de chǔjìng de yī qiē kùn nán， hěn tì tā de qī zǐ、 xiǎo hái hé zì jǐ nán guò。 tā yě xǔ néng xiǎng bàn fǎ bǎ tā de zuì guò yǐn mán zhù tā de qī zǐ， yào shì tā zǎo liào dào， zhè gè xiāo xī huì zhè yàng yǐng xiǎng tā。 tā cóng lái méi yòu qīng xī dì kǎo lǜ guò zhè gè wèn tí， dàn tā mó mó hú hú dì gǎn dào tā de qī zǐ zǎo yǐ huái yí tā duì tā bù zhōng shí， tā zhǐ shì zhuāng zuò méi yòu kàn jiàn bà liǎo。 tā shèn zhì yǐ wéi， tā zhǐ shì yī gè xián qī liáng mǔ， yī gè pí bèi de、 jiàn jiàn shuāi lǎo de、 bù zài nián qīng、 yě bù zài měi lì、 háo bù rě rén zhù mùdì nǚ rén， yīngdāng chū yú gōng píng xīn duì tā kuān dà yī xiē。 jiēguǒ què wán quán xiāng fǎn。
“ āi， kě pà yā！ kě pà yā！” sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí jìn zài zì yán zì yǔ， xiǎng bù chū bàn fǎ lái。“ yǐ qián yī qiē shì duō me shùn suì hē！ wǒ men guò dé duō kuài huó； tā yīn wéi hái zǐ men 'ér gǎn dào mǎn zú hé xìng fú； wǒ cóng lái shénme shì qíng yě bù gān shè tā； suí zhe tā de yì sī qù zhào guǎn xiǎo hái hé jiā shì。 zì rán， zāo gāo de shì， tā shì wǒ men jiā lǐ de jiā tíng nǚ jiào shī。 zhēn zāo！ hé jiā lǐ de jiā tíng nǚ jiào shī hú lái， wèi miǎn yòu diǎn yōng sú， xià liú。 dàn shì yī gè duō piào liàng de jiā tíng nǚ jiào shī yā！（ tā lì lì zài mù dì huí xiǎng zhe luó lán gū niàn de 'è zuò jù de hēi yǎn jīng hé tā de wēi xiào。） dàn shì bì jìng， tā zài wǒ men jiā lǐ de shí hòu， wǒ cóng lái wèi gǎn fàng sì guò。 zuì zāo de jiù shì tā yǐ jīng…… hǎo xiàng mìng gāi rú cǐ！ āi， āi！ dàn shì zěn me， zěn me bàn yā？”
chú liǎo shēng huó suǒ gěi yú yī qiē zuì fù zá zuì nán jiě jué de wèn tí de nà gè yī bān de jiě dá zhī wài， zài yě dé bù dào qí tā jiě dá liǎo。 nà jiě dá jiù shì： rén bì xū zài rì cháng de xū yào zhōng shēng huó héng héng nà jiù shì， wàng huái yī qiē。 yào zài shuì mián zhōng wàng diào yōu chóu xiàn zài yǐ bù kě néng， zhì shǎo yě dé dào yè jiān cái xíng； tā xiàn zài yòu bù néng gòu huí dào jiǔ píng nǚ rén suǒ chàng de yīnyuè zhōng qù； yīn cǐ tā zhǐ hǎo zài bái zhòu mèng zhōng xiāo chóu jiě mèn。
“ wǒ men děng zhe qiáo bā，” sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí zì yán zì yǔ， tā zhàn qǐ lái， chuān shàng yī jiàn chèn zhe lán sè chóu lǐ de huī sè chén yī， bǎ yāo dài dǎ liǎo yī gè jié， yú shì， shēn shēn dì wǎng tā de kuān kuò xiōng táng lǐ xī liǎo yī kǒu qì， tā bǎi kāi tā nà shuāng nà me qīng kuài dì zài zhe tā de féi pàng shēn tǐ de bā zì jiǎo， mài zhe sù cháng de wěn zhòng bù fá zǒu dào chuāng qián， tā lā kāi bǎi yè chuāng， yòng lì 'àn líng。 tā de qīn xìn pú rén mǎ tè wéi lì kè yìng shēng chū xiàn， bǎ tā de yī fú、 cháng xuē hé diàn bào ná lái liǎo。 lǐfà jiàng xié zhe lǐfà yòng jù gēn zài mǎ tè wéi hòu miàn zǒu jìn lái。
“ yá mén lǐ yòu shénme gōng wén sòng lái méi yòu？” sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí wèn， jiē guò diàn bào， zài jìng zǐ miàn qián zuò xià。
“ zài zhuō shàng，” mǎ tè wéi huí dá， huái zhe tóng qíng xún wèn dì piē liǎo tā de zhù rén yī yǎn； tíng liǎo yī huì， tā liǎn shàng fú zhe jiǎo kuài de wēi xiào bǔ chōng shuō：“ mǎ chē lǎo bǎn nà 'ér yòu rén lái guò。”
sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí méi yòu huí dá， zhǐ zài jìng lǐ piē liǎo mǎ tè wéi yī yǎn。 cóng tā men zài jìng zǐ lǐ jiāo huàn de yǎn sè zhōng， kě yǐ kàn chū lái tā men bǐ cǐ hěn liǎo jiě。 sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí de yǎn sè sì hū zài wèn：“ nǐ wèishénme duì wǒ shuō zhè gè？ nǐ nán dào bù zhī dào？”
mǎ tè wéi bǎ shǒu fàng jìn wài tào kǒu dài lǐ， shēn chū yī zhǐ jiǎo， mò mò dì、 shàn liáng dì、 dài zhe yī sī wēi xiào níng shì zhe tā de zhù rén。
“ wǒ jiào tā men lǐ bài rì zài lái， bù dào nà shí hòu bù yào bái fèi qì lì lái má fán nín huò tā men zì jǐ，” tā shuō， tā xiǎn rán shì shì xiān zhǔn bèi hǎo zhè jù huà de。
sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí kàn chū lái mǎ tè wéi xiǎng yào kāi kāi wán xiào， yǐn dé rén jiā zhù yì zì jǐ。 tā chāi kāi diàn bào kàn liǎo yī biàn， chuài cè zhe diàn bào lǐ shí cháng pīn cuò de zì yǎn， tā de liǎn sè kāi lǎng liǎo。
“ mǎ tè wéi， wǒ mèi mèi 'ān nà · ā 'ěr kǎ jì yé fū nà míng tiān yào lái liǎo，” tā shuō， zuò shǒu shì yào lǐfà jiàng de guāng huá fēng mǎn de shǒu tíng yī huì， tā zhèng zài cóng tā de cháng cháng de、 quán qū de luò sāi hú zǐ zhōng jiān tì chū yī tiáo dàn hóng sè de wén lù lái。
“ xiè xiè shàng dì！” mǎ tè wéi shuō， yóu zhè huí dá jiù xiǎn shì chū tā xiàng tā de zhù rén yī yàng liǎo jiě zhè cì lái fǎng de zhòng dà yì yì， nà jiù shì， ān nà · ā 'ěr kǎ jì yé fū nà， tā suǒ xǐ huān de mèi mèi， yě xǔ huì cù shǐ fū qī hé hǎo qǐ lái。
“ yī gè rén， hái shì hé tā zhàng fū yī dào？” mǎ tè wéi wèn。
sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí bù néng gòu huí dá， yīn wéi lǐfà jiàng zhèng zài tì tā de shàng chún， yú shì jǔ qǐ yī gè shǒu zhǐ lái。 mǎ tè wéi cháo jìng zǐ lǐ diǎn diǎn tóu。
“ yī gè rén。 yào zài lóu shàng shōu shí hǎo yī jiān fáng jiān má？”
“ qù gào sù dá lǐ yà · yà lì shān dé luó fū nà： tā huì fēn fù de。”
“ dá lǐ yà · yà lì shān dé luó fū nà？” mǎ tè wéi hǎo xiàng huái yí sì dì zhòng fù zhe。
“ shì de， qù gào sù tā。 bǎ diàn bào ná qù； jiāo gěi tā， zhào tā fēn fù de qù bàn。”
“ nín yào qù shì yī shì má，” mǎ tè wéi xīn zhōng míng bái， dàn tā què zhǐ shuō：
“ shì de， lǎo yé。”
dāng mǎ tè wéi tà zhe nà shuāng gē zī zuò xiǎng de cháng xuē， shǒu lǐ ná zhe diàn bào， màn tūn tūn dì zǒu huí fáng jiān lái de shí hòu， sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí yǐ jīng xǐ hǎo liǎo liǎn， shū guò liǎo tóu fā， zhèng zài yù bèi chuān yī fú。 lǐfà jiàng yǐ jīng zǒu liǎo。
“ dá lǐ yà · yà lì shān dé luó fū nà jiào wǒ duì nín shuō tā yào zǒu liǎo。 ràng tā héng héng jiù shì shuō nín héng héng gāo xīng zěn yàng bàn jiù zěn yàng bàn bā，” tā shuō， zhǐ yòu tā de yǎn jīng hán zhe xiào yì， rán hòu bǎ shǒu fàng jìn kǒu dài lǐ， wāi zhe nǎo dài xié shì zhe zhù rén。
sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí chén mò liǎo yī huì。 suí jí yī zhǒng wēn hé de 'ér yòu yòu jǐ fēn qī cè de wēi xiào liú lù zài tā de hǎo kàn de miàn kǒng shàng。
“ e， mǎ tè wéi？” tā shuō， yáo yáo tóu。
“ bù yào jǐn， lǎo yé； shì qíng zì huì hǎo qǐ lái de。” mǎ tè wéi shuō。
“ zì huì hǎo qǐ lái de？”
“ shì de， lǎo yé。”
“ nǐ zhè yàng xiǎng má？ shuí lái liǎo？” sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí wèn， tīng jiàn mén wài yòu nǚ rén de yī fú de jiū n shēng。
“ wǒ，” yī gè jiān dìng 'ér yú kuài de nǚ rén shēng yīn shuō， rǔ mǔ mǎ tè liào nà · fěi lì méng nuò fū nà de yán jùn de má liǎn cóng mén hòu shēn jìn lái。
“ ò， shénme shì， mǎ tè liào nà？” sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí wèn， zǒu dào tā miàn qián。
suī rán sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí zài qī zǐ miàn qián yī wú shì chù， ér qiě tā zì jǐ yě gǎn jué dào zhè diǎn， dàn shì jiā lǐ jīhū měi gè rén（ jiù lián dá lǐ yà · yà lì shān dé luó fū nà de xīn fù， nà gè rǔ mǔ yě zài nèi，） dū zhàn zài tā zhè biān。
“ ò， shénme shì？” tā yōu chóu dì wèn。
“ dào tā nà lǐ qù， lǎo yé， zài rèn yī cì cuò bā。 shàng dì huì bāng zhù nín de。 tā shì zhè yàng tòng kǔ， kàn jiàn tā dū jiào rén shāng xīn； ér qiě jiā lǐ yī qiēdōu nòng dé luàn qī bā zāo liǎo。 lǎo yé， nín gāi lián mǐn lián mǐn hái zǐ men。 rèn gè cuò bā， lǎo yé。 zhè shì méi yòu bàn fǎ de！ yào tú kuài huó， jiù zhǐ hǎo……”
“ dàn shì tā bù yuàn jiàn wǒ。”
“ jìn nín de běn fēn。 shàng dì shì cí bēi de， xiàng shàng dì dǎo gào， lǎo yé， xiàng shàng dì dǎo gào bā。”
“ hǎo de， nǐ zǒu bā，” sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí shuō， tū rán zhànghóng liǎo liǎn。“ wèi， gěi wǒ chuān shàng yī fú。” tā zhuànxiàng mǎ tè wéi shuō， yì rán jué rán dì tuō xià chén yī。
mǎ tè wéi yǐ jīng jǔ qǐ chèn yī， xiàng mǎ jǐng 'è yī yàng， chuī qù liǎo shàng miàn de yī diǎn shénme kàn bù jiàn de hēi diǎn， tā dài zhe xiǎn rán de yú kuài shén qíng bǎ tā tào zài tā zhù rén de bǎo yǎng dé hěn hǎo de shēn tǐ shàng。 sān
sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí chuān hǎo liǎo yī fú， zài shēn shàng sǎ liǎo xiē xiāng shuǐ， lā zhí chèn yī xiù kǒu， zhào cháng bǎ xiāng yān、 xiù zhēn bù、 huǒ chái hé nà yòu zhe shuāngchóng liàn zǐ hé biǎo zhuì de biǎo fēn zhì zài gè gè kǒu dài lǐ， rán hòu dǒu kāi shǒu pà， suī rán tā hěn bù xìng， dàn shì tā gǎn dào qīng shuǎng， fēn fāng， jiàn kāng hé ròu tǐ shàng de shū shì， tā liǎng tuǐ wēi wēi yáo bǎi zhe zǒu jìn liǎo cān shì， tā de kā fēi yǐ bǎi zài nà lǐ děng tā， kā fēi bàng biān fàng zhe xìn jiàn hé yá mén lǐ sòng lái de gōng wén。
tā yuè dú xìn jiàn。 yòu yī fēng lìng rén jí bù yú kuài， shì yī gè xiǎng yào mǎi tā qī zǐ dì chǎn shàng de yī zuò shù lín de shāng rén xiě lái de， chū mài zhè zuò shù lín shì jué duì bì yào de； dàn shì xiàn zài， zài tā méi yòu hé qī zǐ hé jiě yǐ qián， zhè gè wèn tí shì wú fǎ tán de。 zuì bù yú kuài de shì tā de jīn qián shàng de lì hài guān xì yào qiān shè dào tā jí dài gēn tā qī zǐ hé jiě de wèn tí shàng qù。 xiǎng dào tā huì bèi zhè zhǒng lì hài guān xì suǒ zuǒ yòu， tā huì wèile mài shù lín de yuán gù qù gēn tā qī zǐ jiǎng hé héng héng xiǎng dào zhè gè， jiù shǐ tā bù yú kuài liǎo。
kàn wán liǎo xìn， sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí bǎ yá mén lǐ sòng lái de gōng wén lā dào miàn qián， xùn sù dì yuè guò liǎo liǎng jiàn gōng shì， yòng cū qiān bǐ zuò liǎo xiē jì hào， jiù bǎ gōng wén tuī zài yī bàng， duān qǐ kā fēi； tā yī miàn hē kā fēi， yī miàn dǎ kāi yóu mò wèi gān de chén bào， kāi shǐ dú qǐ lái。
sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí dìng yuè yī fèn zì yóu zhù yì pài de bào zhǐ， bù shì jí duān zì yóu zhù yì pài de 'ér shì dài biǎo dà duō shù rén yì jiàn de bào zhǐ。 suī rán tā duì yú kē xué、 yì shù hé bìng méi yòu tè bié xīng qù， dàn tā duì zhè yī qièwèn tí què jiān chí bào zhe yǔ dà duō shù rén hé tā de bào zhǐ yī zhì de yì jiàn。 zhǐ yòu zài dà duō shù rén gǎi biàn liǎo yì jiàn de shí hòu， tā zhè cái suí zhe gǎi biàn， huò zhě， gèng yán gé dì shuō， tā bìng méi yòu gǎi biàn， ér shì yì jiàn běn shēn bù zhī bù jué dì zài tā xīn zhōng gǎi biàn liǎo。
sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí bìng méi yòu xuǎn zé tā de zhù zhāng hé jiàn jiě； zhè xiē zhù zhāng hé jiàn jiě shì zì dòng dào tā zhè lǐ lái de， zhèng rú tā bìng méi yòu xuǎn zé mào zǐ hé shàng yī de yàng shì， ér zhǐ shì chuān dài zhe dà jiādōu zài chuān dài de。 shēng huó yú shàng liú shè huì lǐ de tā héng héng yóu yú pǔ tōng zài chéng nián qī fā yù chéng shú de， duì yú mǒu zhǒng jīng shén huó dòng de yào qiú héng héng bì xū yòu jiàn jiě zhèng rú bì xū yòu mào zǐ yī yàng。 rú guǒ shuō tā 'ài zì yóu zhù yì de jiàn jiě shèng guò 'ài tā zhōu wéi xǔ duō rén bào zhe de bǎo shǒu jiàn jiě shì yòu dào lǐ de， nà dǎo bù shì yóu yú tā rèn wéi zì yóu zhù yì gèng hé lǐ， ér shì yóu yú tā gèng shì hé tā de shēng huó fāng shì。 zì yóu dǎng shuō yī qiēdōu shì huài de， díquè， sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí fù zhài lěi lěi， zhèng quē qián yòng。 zì yóu dǎng shuō jié hūn shì wán quán guò shí de zhì dù， bì xū gǎi gé cái xíng； ér jiā tíng shēng huó díquè méi yòu gěi sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí duō shǎo lè qù， ér qiě bī dé tā shuō huǎng zuò jiǎ， nà shì wán quán wéi fǎn tā de běn xìng de。 zì yóu dǎng shuō， huò zhě wú níng shuō shì 'àn shì， zōng jiào de zuò yòng zhǐ zài yú qián zhì rén mín zhōng nà xiē yě mán jiē céng； ér sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí lián zuò yī cì duǎn duǎn de lǐ bài， dū zhàn dé yāo suān tuǐ tòng， ér qiě xiǎng bù tòu jì rán xiàn shì shēng huó guò dé zhè me yú kuài， nà me yòng suǒ yòu zhè xiē kě pà 'ér kuā zhāng de yán cí lái tán lùn lái shì hái yòu shénme yì sī。 ér qiě， ài shuō xiào huà de sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí cháng xǐ huān shuō： rú guǒ rén yào kuā yào zì jǐ de zǔ xiān， tā jiù bù yīngdāng dào liú lǐ kè① wéi zhǐ， ér bù chéng rèn tā de shǐ zǔ héng héng hóu zǐ， tā xǐ huān yòng zhè yī lèi de huà qù nán dǎo lǎo shí de rén。 jiù zhè yàng， zì yóu zhù yì de qīng xiàng chéng liǎo sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí de yī zhǒng xí pǐ， tā xǐ huān tā de bào zhǐ， zhèng rú tā xǐ huān fàn hòu chōu yī zhī xuějiā yī yàng， yīn wéi tā zài tā de nǎo zǐ lǐ sàn bù liǎo yī céng qīng wù。 tā dú shè lùn， shè lùn rèn wéi， zài xiàn zài zhè gè shí dài， jiào 'áo jí jìn zhù yì yòu tūn méi yī qiē bǎo shǒu fènzǐ de wēi xiǎn， jiào 'áo zhèng fǔ yīngdāng cǎi qǔ shìdàng cuò shī pū miè de huò hài， zhè lèi jiào 'áo shì háo wú yì sī de； zhèng xiāng fǎn，“ zhào wǒ men de yì jiàn， wēi xiǎn bìng bù zài yú jiǎ xiǎng dídí huò hài， ér zài yú zǔ 'ài jìn bù de mò shǒu chéng guī，” yún yún。 tā yòu dú liǎo lìng wài yī piān guān yú cái zhèng de lùn wén， qí zhōng tí dào liǎo biān qìn hé mì lè②， bìng duì zhèng fǔ mǒu bù yòu suǒ fěng cì。 píng zhe tā tè yòu de jī mǐn， tā lǐng huì liǎo měi jù 'àn fěng de yì yì， cāi tòu liǎo tā cóng hé 'ér lái， zhēn duì shénme rén， chū yú shénme dòng jī 'ér fā； zhè， xiàng píng cháng yī yàng， jǐyǔ tā yī dìng de mǎn zú。
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① liú lǐ kè（ sǐ yú 879）， de jiàn guó zhě， liú lǐ kè wáng cháo（ 869 héng 1598） de shǐ zǔ。
② biān qìn（ 1748 héng 1832）， yīng guó zī chǎn jiē jí fǎ lǜ xué jiā hé lún lǐ xué jiā， gōng lì zhù yì de dài biǎo rén wù。 mì lè（ 1806 héng 1372）， yīng guó zhé xué jiā， huó dòng jiā， jīng jì xué jiā。 zài lún lǐ xué shàng tā jiē jìn biān qìn de gōng lì zhù yì。
dàn shì jīn tiān zhè zhǒng mǎn zú bèi mǎ tè liào nà · fěi lì méng nuò fū nà de quàn gào hé jiā zhōng de bù rú yì zhuàng tài pò huài liǎo。 hái zài bào shàng kàn dào bèi sī tè bó jué① yǐ fù wēi sī bā dēng② de chuán shuō， kàn dào yī zhì báifà、 chū shòu qīng biàn mǎ chē hé mǒu qīng nián zhēng qiú zhí yè de guǎng gào； dàn shì zhè xiē xīn wén bào dǎo bìng méi yòu xiàng píng cháng nà yàng jǐyǔ tā yī zhǒng níng jìng de jī fěng de mǎn zú。
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① bèi sī tè bó jué（ 1809 héng 1886）， ào xiōng dì guó shǒuxiàng， bǐ sī mài de zhèng dí。
② wēi sī bā dēng， dé guó xī bù de chéng shì， zài lāi yīn hé pàn， shì kuàng quán liáo yǎng dì。
kàn guò liǎo bào， hē wán liǎo dì 'èr bēi kā fēi， chī wán liǎo mǒ shàng huáng yóu de miàn bāo， tā lì qǐ shēn lái， fú qù luò zài bèi xīn shàng de miàn bāo xiè， rán hòu， tǐng qǐ kuān kuò de xiōng táng， tā kuài lè dì wēi xiào zhe， bìng bù shì yīn wéi tā xīn lǐ yòu shénme tè bié yú kuài de shì héng héng kuài lè de wēi xiào shì yóu liáng hǎo de xiāo huà yǐn qǐ de。
dàn shì zhè kuài lè de wēi xiào lì kè shǐ tā xiǎng qǐ liǎo yī qiē， tā yòu biàn dé chén sī liǎo。
kě yǐ tīng dào mén wài yòu liǎng gè xiǎo hái de shēng yīn（ sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí tīng chū lái shì tā de xiǎo nán hái gé lǐ shā hé tā de dà nǚ 'ér tǎ ní yà de shēng yīn）， tā men zhèng zài bān nòng shénme dōng xī， dǎ fān liǎo。
“ wǒ duì nǐ shuō liǎo bù yào jiào chéng kè zuò zài chē dǐng shàng。” xiǎo nǚ hái yòng yīng yǔ rǎng zhe，“ shí qǐ lái！”
“ yī qiēdōu shì luàn zāo zāo de，” sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí xiǎng，“ hái zǐ men méi yòu rén guǎn， dào chù luàn páo。” tā zǒu dào mén biān qù jiào tā men。 tā men pāo xià nà dāng huǒ chē yòng de xiá zǐ， xiàng fù qīn zǒu lái。
nà xiǎo nǚ hái， tā fù qīn de bǎo bèi， mǎng zhuàng dì páo jìn lái， bào zhù tā， xiào xī xī dì diào zài tā de bógěng shàng， tā lǎo xǐ huān wén tā de luò sāi hú zǐ sàn fā chū de wén guàn de xiāng qì。 zuì hòu xiǎo nǚ hái wěn liǎo wěn tā nà yīn wéi wān qū de zī shì 'ér zhànghóng de、 shǎn shuò zhe cí 'ài guāng huī de miàn kǒng， sōng kāi liǎo tā de liǎng shǒu， dài yào páo kāi qù， dàn shì tā fù qīn lā zhù liǎo tā。
“ mā mā zěn yàng liǎo？” tā wèn， fǔ mō zhe tā nǚ 'ér de huá rùn róu ruǎn de xiǎo bógěng。“ nǐ hǎo，” tā shuō， xiàng zǒu shàng lái wèn hòu tā de nán hái wēi xiào zhe shuō。
tā yì shí dào tā bìng bù zěn me 'ài nà nán hái， dàn tā zǒng shì jìn liàng tóng yàng duì dài； kě shì nà nán hái gǎn jué dào zhè yī diǎn， duì yú tā fù qīn de lěng dàn de wēi xiào bìng méi yòu bào yǐ wēi xiào。
“ mā mā？ tā qǐ lái liǎo，” nǚ hái huí dá。
sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí tàn liǎo kǒu qì。“ zhè me shuō tā yòu zhěng zhěng yī yè méi yòu shuì，” tā xiǎng。
“ ò， tā kuài huó má？”
xiǎo nǚ hái zhī dào， tā fù qīn hé mǔ qīn chǎo liǎo jià， mǔ qīn bù huì kuài huó， fù qīn yě yī dìng míng bái de， tā zhè me suí suí biàn biàn dì wèn tā zhǐ shì zài zuò jiǎ。 yīn cǐ tā wéi tā fù qīn zhànghóng liǎo liǎn。 tā lì kè jué chá chū lái， yě liǎn hóng liǎo。
“ wǒ bù zhī dào，” tā shuō。“ tā méi yòu shuō yào wǒ men shàng kè， tā zhǐ shì shuō yào wǒ men gēn gǔ lǐ xiǎo jiě dào wài zǔ mǔ jiā qù zǒu zǒu。”
“ ò， qù bā， tǎ ní yà， wǒ de bǎo bǎo。 ò， děng yī děng！” tā shuō， hái lā láo tā， fǔ mō zhe tā de róu ruǎn de xiǎo shǒu。
tā cóng bì lú shàng qǔ xià tā zuó tiān fàng zài nà lǐ de yī xiǎo hé táng guǒ， jiǎn tā zuì 'ài chī de， gěi liǎo tā liǎng kuài， yī kuài qiǎo kè lì hé yī kuài ruǎn táng。
“ gěi gé lǐ shā？” xiǎo nǚ hái zhǐ zhe qiǎo kè lì shuō。
“ shì， shì。” yòu fǔ mō liǎo yī xià tā de xiǎo jiān bǎng， tā wěn liǎo wěn tā de fā gēn hé bógěng， jiù fàng tā zǒu liǎo。
“ mǎ chē tào hǎo liǎo，” mǎ tè wéi shuō，“ dàn shì yòu gè rén wèile qǐng yuàn de shì yào jiàn nín。”
“ lái liǎo hěn jiǔ má？” sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí wèn。
“ bàn gè zhōng tóu de guāng jǐng。”
“ wǒ duì nǐ shuō liǎo duō shǎo cì， yòu rén lái mǎ shàng gào sù wǒ！”
“ zhì shǎo zǒng dé ràng nín hē wán kā fēi，” mǎ tè wéi shuō， tā de shēng diào cū lǔ 'ér yòu chéng kěn， shǐ dé rén bù néng gòu shēng qì。
“ nà me， mǎ shàng qǐng nà gè rén jìn lái bā，” ào bù lóng sī jī shuō， fán nǎo dì zhòu zhe méi。
nà qǐng yuàn zhě， cān móu dà wèi jiā lǐ níng de guǎ qī， lái qǐng qiú yī jiàn bàn bù dào de 'ér qiě bù hé lǐ de shì qíng； dàn shì sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí zhào lì qǐng tā zuò xià， liú xīn dì tīng tā shuō wán， méi yòu dǎ duàn tā yī jù， bìng qiě gěi liǎo tā xiáng xì de zhǐ shì， gào sù tā zěn yàng yǐ jí xiàng shuí qù qǐng qiú， shèn zhì hái yòng tā de cū dà、 sǎnmàn、 yōu měi 'ér qīng chǔ de bǐ jì， mǐn jié 'ér liú lì dì tì tā xiě liǎo yī fēng xìn gěi yī wèi kě yǐ bāng tā máng de rén。 dǎ fā zǒu liǎo cān móu dà wèi de guǎ qī yǐ hòu， sī jié pān · ā 'ěr kǎ jì qí ná qǐ mào zǐ， zhàn zhù xiǎng liǎo xiǎng tā wàng jì shénme méi yòu。 kàn lái chú liǎo tā yào wàng jì de héng héng tā de qī zǐ yǐ wài， tā shénme yě méi yòu wàng jì。
“ ō， shì de！” tā chuí xià tóu， tā de piào liàng miàn kǒng dài zhe kǔ nǎo de biǎo qíng。
“ qù ní， hái shì bù qù？” tā zì yán zì yǔ； ér tā nèi xīn de shēng yīn gào sù tā， tā bù yīngdāng qù， nà chú liǎo nòng xū zuò jiǎ bù huì yòu bàng de jiēguǒ； yào gǎi shàn、 mí bǔ tā men de guān xì shì bù kě néng de， yīn wéi yào shǐ tā zài jù yòu mèi lì 'ér qiě néng gòu yǐn rén 'ài lián， huò zhě shǐ tā biàn chéng yī gè bù néng liàn 'ài de lǎo rén， dōubù kě néng。 xiàn zài chú liǎo qī piàn shuō huǎng zhī wài bù huì yòu bàng de jiēguǒ； ér qī piàn shuō huǎng yòu shì wéi fǎn tā de tiān xìng de。
“ kě shì chí zǎo zǒng dé zuò de； zhè yàng xià qù bù xíng，” tā shuō， jí lì gǔ qǐ yǒng qì。 tā tǐng zhe xiōng， ná chū yī zhī zhǐ yān， xī liǎo liǎng kǒu， jiù tóu jìn zhū mǔ bèi ké yān huī dié lǐ qù， rán hòu mài zhe xùn sù de bù fá zǒu guò kè tīng， dǎ kāi liǎo tōng dào tā qī zǐ qǐn shì de lìng yī shàn fáng mén。 sì
dá lǐ yà · yà lì shān dé luó fū nà chuānzhuó shū zhuāng duǎn yī zhàn zài nà lǐ， tā nà céng jīng shì fēng mǎn měi lì、 xiàn zài què biàn xī shū liǎo de tóu fā， yòng fā zhēn pán zài tā de nǎo hòu， tā de miàn róng xiāo shòu qiáo cuì， yī shuāng chī jīng de dà yǎn jīng， yīn wéi tā miàn róng de xiāo shòu 'ér xiǎn dé gèng jiā chù mù。 gè shì gè yàng de wù jiàn sǎnluàn dì bǎi mǎn yī fáng jiān， tā zhàn zài zhè xiē wù jiàn dāng zhōng yī gè kāi zhe de yī guì qián miàn， tā zhèng cóng lǐ miàn tiǎo jiǎn shénme dōng xī。 tīng dào tā zhàng fū de jiǎo bù shēng， tā tíng zhù liǎo， cháo mén kǒu wàng zhe， tú rán xiǎng yào zhuāng chū yī zhǒng yán lì 'ér qīng miè de biǎo qíng。 tā gǎn jué dé tā hài pà tā， hài pà kuài yào dào lái de huì jiàn。 tā zhèng zài qǐ tú zuò tā sān tiān yǐ lái yǐ jīng qǐ tú zuò liǎo shí lái huí de shì qíng héng héng bǎ tā zì jǐ hé hái zǐ men de yī fú qīng lǐ chū lái， dài dào tā mǔ qīn nà lǐ qù héng héng dàn tā hái shì méi yòu zhè yàng zuò de jué xīn； dàn shì xiàn zài yòu xiàng qián jǐ cì yī yàng， tā jìn zài zì yán zì yǔ dì shuō， shì qíng bù néng xiàng zhè yàng xià qù， tā yī dìng yào xiǎng gè bàn fǎ chéng fá tā， xiū rǔ tā， nǎ pà bào fù yī xià， shǐ tā cháng cháng tā gěi yú tā de tòng kǔ de yī xiǎo bù fēn yě hǎo。 tā hái shì jì xù duì zì jǐ shuō tā yào lí kāi tā， dàn tā zì jǐ yě yì shí dào zhè shì bù kě néng de； zhè shì bù kě néng de， yīn wéi tā bù néng bǎi tuō nà zhǒng bǎ tā dāng zì jǐ zhàng fū kàn dài、 ér qiě 'ài tā de xí guàn。 kuàng qiě， tā gǎn dào jiǎ rú zài zhè lǐ， zài tā zì jǐ jiā lǐ， tā shàng qiě bù néng hěn hǎo dì zhào kàn tā de wǔ gè xiǎo hái， nà me， zài tā yào bǎ tā men tōng tōng dài qù de dì fāng， tā men jiù huì gèng zāo。 shì shí shàng， zài zhè sān tiān nèi， dǐng xiǎo de yī gè hái zǐ yīn wéi chī liǎo biàn liǎo zhì de tānɡ hài bìng liǎo， qí yú de zuó tiān chàbù duō méi yòu chī shàng wǔ fàn。 tā yì shí dào yào zǒu kāi shì bù kě néng de； dàn shì， hái zài zì qī qī rén， tā jì xù qīng lǐ dōng xī， zhuāng chū yào zǒu de yàng zǐ。
"Oh, it's awful! oh dear, oh dear! awful!" Stepan Arkadyevitch kept repeating to himself, and he could think of nothing to be done. "And how well things were going up till now! how well we got on! She was contented and happy in her children; I never interfered with her in anything; I let her manage the children and the house just as she liked. It's true it's bad HER having been a governess in our house. That's bad! There's something common, vulgar, in flirting with one's governess. But what a governess!" (He vividly recalled the roguish black eyes of Mlle. Roland and her smile.) "But after all, while she was in the house, I kept myself in hand. And the worst of it all is that she's already...it seems as if ill-luck would have it so! Oh, oh! But what, what is to be done?"
There was no solution, but that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble. That answer is: one must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself. To forget himself in sleep was impossible now, at least till nighttime; he could not go back now to the music sung by the decanter-women; so he must forget himself in the dream of daily life.
"Then we shall see," Stepan Arkadyevitch said to himself, and getting up he put on a gray dressing-gown lined with blue silk, tied the tassels in a knot, and, drawing a deep breath of air into his broad, bare chest, he walked to the window with his usual confident step, turning out his feet that carried his full frame so easily. He pulled up the blind and rang the bell loudly. It was at once answered by the appearance of an old friend, his valet, Matvey, carrying his clothes, his boots, and a telegram. Matvey was followed by the barber with all the necessaries for shaving.
"Are there any papers form the office?" asked Stepan Arkadyevitch, taking the telegram and seating himself at the looking-glass.
"On the table," replied Matvey, glancing with inquiring sympathy at his master; and, after a short pause, he added with a sly smile, "They've sent from the carriage-jobbers."
Stepan Arkadyevitch made no reply, he merely glanced at Matvey in the looking-glass. In the glance, in which their eyes met in the looking-glass, it was clear that they understood one another. Stepan Arkadyevitch's eyes asked: "Why do you tell me that? don't you know?"
Matvey put his hands in his jacket pockets, thrust out one leg, and gazed silently, good-humoredly, with a faint smile, at his master.
"I told them to come on Sunday, and till then not to trouble you or themselves for nothing," he said. He had obviously prepared the sentence beforehand.
Stepan Arkadyevitch saw Matvey wanted to make a joke and attract attention to himself. Tearing open the telegram, he read it through, guessing at the words, misspelt as they always are in telegrams, and his face brightened.
"Matvey, my sister Anna Arkadyevna will be here tomorrow," he said, checking for a minute the sleek, plump hand of the barber, cutting a pink path through his long, curly whiskers.
"Thank God!" said Matvey, showing by this response that he, like his master, realized the significance of this arrival--that is, that Anna Arkadyevna, the sister he was so fond of, might bring about a reconciliation between husband and wife.
"Alone, or with her husband?" inquired Matvey.
Stepan Arkadyevitch could not answer, as the barber was at work on his upper lip, and he raised one finger. Matvey nodded at the looking-glass.
"Alone. Is the room to be got ready upstairs?"
"Inform Darya Alexandrovna: where she orders."
"Darya Alexandrovna?" Matvey repeated, as though in doubt.
"Yes, inform her. Here, take the telegram; give it to her, and then do what she tells you."
"You want to try it on," Matvey understood, but he only said, "Yes sir."
Stepan Arkadyevitch was already washed and combed and ready to be dressed, when Matvey, stepping deliberately in his creaky boots, came back into the room with the telegram in his hand. The barber had gone.
"Darya Alexandrovna told me to inform you that she is going away. Let him do--that is you--as he likes," he said, laughing only with his eyes, and putting his hands in his pockets, he watched his master with his head on one side. Stepan Arkadyevitch was silent a minute. Then a good-humored and rather pitiful smile showed itself on his handsome face.
"Eh, Matvey?" he said, shaking his head.
"It's all right, sir; she will come round," said Matvey.
"Come round?"
"Yes, sir."
"Do you think so? Who's there?" asked Stepan Arkadyevitch, hearing the rustle of a woman's dress at the door.
"It's I," said a firm, pleasant, woman's voice, and the stern, pockmarked face of Matrona Philimonovna, the nurse, was thrust in at the doorway.
"Well, what is it, Matrona?" queried Stepan Arkadyevitch, going up to her at the door.
Although Stepan Arkadyevitch was completely in the wrong as regards his wife, and was conscious of this himself, almost every one in the house (even the nurse, Darya Alexandrovna's chief ally) was on his side.
"Well, what now?" he asked disconsolately.
"Go to her, sir; own your fault again. Maybe God will aid you. She is suffering so, it's sad to hee her; and besides, everything in the house is topsy-turvy. You must have pity, sir, on the children. Beg her forgiveness, sir. There's no help for it! One must take the consequences..."
"But she won't see me."
"You do your part. God is merciful; pray to God, sir, pray to God."
"Come, that'll do, you can go," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, blushing suddenly. "Well now, do dress me." He turned to Matvey and threw off his dressing-gown decisively.
Matvey was already holding up the shirt like a horse's collar, and, blowing off some invisible speck, he slipped it with obvious pleasure over the well-groomed body of his master.