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巴里约向她保证，说窗户都是他亲手关上的。窗户上有玻璃打碎了，这倒可能。演员们总是对穿堂风怨声载道。丰唐说得好，煤气灯把这里照得又闷又热，加上阵阵冷风穿过，呆在这个窝里，不得肺炎才怪呢。 "I should like to see YOU in a low-cut dress," continued Nana, growing annoyed." 你们也穿得袒胸露肩试试看，会有什么感觉。"娜娜气乎乎地说道。 "Hush!" murmured Bordenave." 嘘！"博尔德纳夫低声说道。 On the stage Rose rendered a phrase in her duet so cleverly that the stalls burst into universal applause. Nana was silent at this, and her face grew grave. Meanwhile the count was venturing down a passage when Barillot stopped him and said he would make a discovery there. Indeed, he obtained an oblique back view of the scenery and of the wings which had been strengthened, as it were, by a thick layer of old posters. Then he caught sight of a corner of the stage, of the Etna cave hollowed out in a silver mine and of Vulcan's forge in the background. Battens, lowered from above, lit up a sparkling substance which had been laid on with large dabs of the brush. Side lights with red glasses and blue were so placed as to produce the appearance of a fiery brazier, while on the floor of the stage, in the far background, long lines of gaslight had been laid down in order to throw a wall of dark rocks into sharp relief. Hard by on a gentle, "practicable" incline, amid little points of light resembling the illumination lamps scattered about in the grass on the night of a public holiday, old Mme Drouard, who played Juno, was sitting dazed and sleepy, waiting for her cue. 在舞台上，罗丝把二重唱的每句唱词唱得那样优美动听，观众的喝彩声淹没了乐队的伴奏声。娜娜一声不吭，沉着脸。这时，伯爵冒冒失失地钻进天幕后边的通道，巴里约连忙拦住他，告诉他那儿有一块空隙，会让观众看见的。他看见的是布景的背面和侧面，布景架的后面糊着厚厚一层旧海报，在舞台的一个角落里，埃特纳火山的一个岩洞陷入在一座银矿里，舞台的最后边有火神的炼铁炉。悬挂下来的布景照明灯，照在涂有浓重色彩的金属板上，宛如着了火似的。若干装着蓝色玻璃和红色玻璃的布景撑架，利用精确的反差效果，使反射的灯光就像熊熊燃烧着的炭火；在舞台的最里边，一道道瓦斯灯光闪烁着，把黑岩石的岩坝照得清清楚楚。就在那里一道用实物制成的缓坡上，坐着扮演天后朱诺的德鲁阿尔老太太，她的周围亮光点点，酷似节日夜晚放在草丛中的一盏盏小油灯，她被灯光照得睁不开眼睛，昏昏欲睡，坐在那里等待入场。 Presently there was a commotion, for Simonne, while listening to a story Clarisse was telling her, cried out: 这时候，发生了一阵骚动。西蒙娜正在听克拉利瑟讲故事，她突然叫道： 
瞧，拉特里贡来了！" It was indeed the Tricon, wearing the same old curls and looking as like a litigious great lady as ever.When she saw Nana she went straight up to her. 果然是拉特里贡来了，她的鬓角上烫着鬈发，神态像一位伯爵夫人去拜见她的诉讼代理人。她瞥见娜娜后，径直向她走去。 "No," said the latter after some rapid phrases had been exchanged, "not now." The old lady looked grave. Just then Prulliere passed by and shook hands with her, while two little chorus girls stood gazing at her with looks of deep emotion. For a moment she seemed to hesitate. Then she beckoned to Simonne, and the rapid exchange of sentences began again." 不，"她们之间三言两语后，娜娜说道，"现在不行。"老虔婆把脸一沉。普律利埃尔这时从那儿走过，同拉特里贡握了握手。普律利埃尔和娜娜激动地打量着她。拉特里贡迟疑了一阵子。接着，她做了一个手势，叫西蒙娜过来。随后，她们开始了简短的谈话。 "Yes," said Simonne at last. "In half an hour."" 行，"西蒙娜终于说道，"再过半个钟头。" But as she was going upstairs again to her dressing room, Mme Bron, who was once more going the rounds with letters, presented one to her. Bordenave lowered his voice and furiously reproached the portress for having allowed the Tricon to come in. That woman! And on such an evening of all others! It made him so angry because His Highness was there! Mme Bron, who had been thirty years in the theater, replied quite sourly. How was she to know? she asked. The Tricon did business with all the ladies--M. le Directeur had met her a score of times without making remarks. And while Bordenave was muttering oaths the Tricon stood quietly by, scrutinizing the prince as became a woman who weighs a man at a glance. A smile lit up her yellow face. Presently she paced slowly off through the crowd of deeply deferential little women. 西蒙娜正向化妆室走时，布龙太太又拿着一些信件走来走去，便递给她一封。博尔德纳夫见拉特里贡来，很生气，低声责备女门房不该放她进来；这个女人！偏偏在这个晚上来，这件事使他特别恼怒，因为王子殿下今晚来了。布龙太太在剧院干了三十年，她尖声怪调地回答道：她①怎么知道王子来了呢？拉特里贡老虔婆跟这里的每个女人都做交易，经理先生碰到过她不知多少次了，对她却从来没有说过一句什么。这时博尔德纳夫骂出一些粗话，拉特里贡呆在那儿一声不吭，目不转睛地打量着王子。她这个女人，一眼就能掂量出一个男人好不好色。她那蜡黄的脸上浮现出微笑。随后，她慢吞吞地从对她毕恭毕敬的小娘儿们中间走出去。 "Immediately, eh?" she queried, turning round again to Simonne." 一会儿就来，对吗？"她掉过头来对西蒙娜说道。 Simonne seemed much worried. The letter was from a young man to whom she had engaged herself for that evening. She gave Mme Bron a scribbled note in which were the words, "Impossible tonight, darling--I'm booked." But she was still apprehensive; the young man might possibly wait for her in spite of everything. As she was not playing in the third act, she had a mind to be off at once and accordingly begged Clarisse to go and see if the man were there. Clarisse was only due on the stage toward the end of the act, and so she went downstairs while Simonne ran up for a minute to their common dressing room. 西蒙娜看上去很烦恼。那封信是一个青年写来的，她原先答应今晚与他相会。她草草写了个便条递给布龙太太，里边写道："今晚不行，亲爱的，我有事情。"但她心里仍然很不放心，怕他见了条子还会等下去。因为她在第三幕中不上场，她想还不如马上离开一会儿去见见他，于是便请克拉利瑟去看看那个青年走了没有。克拉利瑟要到第三幕快结束时才上场，所以就下楼了，这时西蒙娜赶紧回她俩共用的化妆室。 In Mme Bron's drinking bar downstairs a super, who was charged with the part of Pluto, was drinking in solitude amid the folds of a great red robe diapered with golden flames. The little business plied by the good portress must have been progressing finely, for the cellarlike hole under the stairs was wet with emptied heeltaps and water. Clarisse picked up the tunic of Iris, which was dragging over the greasy steps behind her, but she halted prudently at the turn in the stairs and was content simply to crane forward and peer into the lodge. She certainly had been quick to scent things out! Just fancy! That idiot La Faloise was still there, sitting on the same old chair between the table and the stove! He had made pretense of sneaking off in front of Simonne and had returned after her departure. For the matter of that, the lodge was still full of gentlemen who sat there gloved, elegant, submissive and patient as ever. They were all waiting and viewing each other gravely as they waited. On the table there were now only some dirty plates, Mme Bron having recently distributed the last of the bouquets. A single fallen rose was withering on the floor in the neighborhood of the black cat, who had lain down and curled herself up while the kittens ran wild races and danced fierce gallops among the gentlemen's legs. Clarisse was momentarily inclined to turn La Faloise out. The idiot wasn't fond of animals, and that put the finishing touch to him! He was busy drawing in his legs because the cat was there, and he didn't want to touch her. 楼下布龙太太的酒吧里，一个扮演冥王的配角演员在那里独自饮酒，他身穿一件大红袍，上面用金线绣着金光闪闪的装饰。看样子女门房经营的小生意一定很兴隆，因为在这个地窖般的角落里，楼梯脚下被洗酒杯的水倒得湿漉漉的。克拉利瑟下楼时，撩起她那虹神的裙子，生怕裙子的下摆拖在油垢的梯级上。走到楼梯的转弯处时，她小心地收住脚步，伸长脖子向门房室里张望一下。果然不出她所料，拉法卢瓦兹这个傻瓜不是还呆在那儿，坐在桌子和炉子中间的椅子上吗？他假装见到了西蒙娜，溜走一会儿，然后又回来。再说，门房室里总是坐满了男人，他们戴着手套，衣冠楚楚，态度温顺，耐心地等待着。他们一边等，一边神态严肃地互相打量着。布龙太太把最后送来的几束花已经送走了，所以桌子上只剩下一些脏盆子。只有一朵凋谢了的玫瑰花掉在那只黑母猫旁边，母猫缩成一团睡在那里，几只小猫在先生们的腿下狂奔乱跳。克拉利瑟一时间真想把拉法卢瓦兹赶出去。这个傻瓜不喜欢动物，这就看出他的为人。他把胳膊肘缩起来，生怕猫碰到他。 "He'll nip you; take care!" said Pluto, who was a joker, as he went upstairs, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand." 他会缠住你的，你要当心！"冥王说道。他是个爱开玩笑的人，他一边上楼梯，一边用手背揩着嘴唇。 
这时，克拉利瑟放弃了让拉法卢瓦兹出丑的想法。她看着布龙太太把西蒙娜的信交给了那个青年。他到前厅的一盏煤气灯下面看信："今晚不行，亲爱的，我有事情。"他看后很平静，大概对这样的话已习以为常了，接着他便走了。不管怎样，他还算是知趣的人，不像其他男人，坐在布龙太太的破椅子上，呆在这间灼热、奇臭的玻璃大灯笼般的屋子里死等。堂堂男子汉们就呆在这种地方！克拉利瑟很反感地上楼去了，她穿过舞台，轻捷地上楼梯，一步跨三级，回化妆室给西蒙娜回话去了。 Downstairs the prince had withdrawn from the rest and stood talking to Nana. He never left her; he stood brooding over her through half-shut eyelids. Nana did not look at him but, smiling, nodded yes. Suddenly, however, Count Muffat obeyed an overmastering impulse, and leaving Bordenave, who was explaining to him the working of the rollers and windlasses, he came up in order to interrupt their confabulations. Nana lifted her eyes and smiled at him as she smiled at His Highness. But she kept her ears open notwithstanding, for she was waiting for her cue. 舞台上，王子单独与娜娜呆在一起，与她谈话。他一直没有离开她，眯缝着眼睛瞧着她。娜娜眼睛不看他，脸上堆满微笑，同意他的话就点点头。缪法伯爵正在听博尔德纳夫详细讲解绞盘和鼓筒怎样操作，突然，他内心一阵冲动，扔下博尔德纳夫，走过来想打断王子和娜娜的谈话。娜娜抬起头，就像对王子殿下笑的那个样子，对他莞尔一笑，不过，他总是竖起耳朵，注意听台上的台词。 "The third act is the shortest, I believe," the prince began saying, for the count's presence embarrassed him." 我觉得第三幕最短。"王子说道。伯爵在场，他觉得有些不太自在。 She did not answer; her whole expression altered; she was suddenly intent on her business. With a rapid movement of the shoulders she had let her furs slip from her, and Mme Jules, standing behind, had caught them in her arms. And then after passing her two hands to her hair as though to make it fast, she went on the stage in all her nudity. 娜娜对王子的话没有作答，脸上表情也变了，她突然想到她演戏的事上来。她的肩膀猛然一动，皮衣滑落下来，朱勒太太正好站在她的背后，一把接住了。她赤身裸体，把两只手放到头发上，像要把它弄弄平，接着她进场了。 "Hush, hush!" whispered Bordenave." 嘘！嘘！"博尔德纳夫悄悄示意。 
王子和伯爵感到惊讶。在一片寂静中，传来了深沉的叹息声和远处发出的喧哗声。每天晚上，当爱神赤裸着女神般的身体进场时，都产生同样的效果。这时缪法想瞧一瞧，便把眼睛贴近一个洞眼。台上的脚灯排成一道弧形，发出夺目的光芒，脚灯背面的大厅里显得昏昏暗暗，好像弥漫着黄橙橙的烟雾，在这暗淡的背景中，一排排观众的面孔显得苍白而又模糊不清，而舞台上的娜娜则显得格外清楚。她浑身白皙，变得高大了，把楼上楼下的包厢全部遮挡了。缪法从她的背后看着她，她的腰绷得紧紧的，双臂张开；而在地板上，与她的脚平齐的高度，露出一个提台词老人的头，那头像被割下来似的，样子看上去既可怜而又老实。她上场后唱第一段唱段时，每唱一句，脖子就像波浪一样起伏，这样起伏向下波及到腰部，并一直延伸到裙子的下摆。她唱完最后一句时，全场立刻报以雷鸣般的喝彩声，她向观众鞠躬致谢，身上的薄纱飘起来，长长的头发披落到腰部。缪法看见她弯着腰，撅着屁股往后退，方向朝向那个洞眼，他正在那儿观看呢，顿时他直起腰来，脸色变得煞白。舞台上的一切看不见了，映入他眼帘的只是布景的背面，上面乱七八糟地贴着五颜六色的旧海报。在一排排煤气灯照耀下，在一道斜坡上，奥林匹斯山诸神又找到了德鲁阿尔太太，她正在打盹。他们在等待这幕戏结束。博斯克和丰唐坐在地上，下巴搁在膝盖上，普律利埃尔还没上场就伸懒腰，打呵欠。大家都满面倦容，眼睛通红，想赶紧回家睡觉。 Just then Fauchery, who had been prowling about on the O.P. side ever since Bordenave had forbidden him the other, came and buttonholed the count in order to keep himself in countenance and offered at the same time to show him the dressing rooms. An increasing sense of languor had left Muffat without any power of resistance, and after looking round for the Marquis de Chouard, who had disappeared, he ended by following the journalist. He experienced a mingled feeling of relief and anxiety as he left the wings whence he had been listening to Nana's songs. 博尔德纳夫下过命令，不准福什利走到院子这一边，他就一直在花园一边溜达，这时，为了掩饰自己的窘相，便抓住伯爵，自愿带他去参观演员化妆室。缪法越来越优柔寡断，遇事拿不定主意，他用目光四下寻找德·舒阿尔侯爵，终不见踪影，便跟着新闻记者走了。他呆在后台，能听见娜娜的演唱，现在离开那里，既感到轻松，又感到不安。 Fauchery had already preceded him up the staircase, which was closed on the first and second floors by low-paneled doors. It was one of those stairways which you find in miserable tenements. Count Muffat had seen many such during his rounds as member of the Benevolent Organization. It was bare and dilapidated: there was a wash of yellow paint on its walls; its steps had been worn by the incessant passage of feet, and its iron balustrade had grown smooth under the friction of many hands. On a level with the floor on every stairhead there was a low window which resembled a deep, square venthole, while in lanterns fastened to the walls flaring gas jets crudely illuminatcd the surrounding squalor and gave out a glowing heat which, as it mounted up the narrow stairwell, grew ever more intense. 福什利先上了楼梯，这种楼梯在二楼和三楼都装有用于关闭楼梯的木头转门。这种楼梯在蹩脚的房屋里常常见到，缪法伯爵曾以赈济所委员的身份，去贫民家里走访过，他看到过这样的楼梯，上面装饰全无，破旧不堪，漆成黄色，梯级被脚上上下下踏损了，铁栏杆被手磨平了。每道楼梯的平台边，贴近地面都有一扇低矮的窗户，方方正正地凹进去，像是气窗。一些悬挂在墙壁上的灯笼，发出煤气光焰，强烈地照射着这种种贫寒景物，还散发出一股热气，向上升腾，并聚积在各层狭窄的螺旋形楼梯下。 When he reached the foot of the stairs the count once more felt the hot breath upon his neck and shoulders. As of old it was laden with the odor of women, wafted amid floods of light and sound from the dressing rooms above, and now with every upward step he took the musky scent of powders and the tart perfume of toilet vinegars heated and bewildered him more and more. On the first floor two corridors ran backward, branching sharply off and presenting a set of doors to view which were painted yellow and numbered with great white numerals in such a way as to suggest a hotel with a bad reputation. The tiles on the floor had been many of them unbedded, and the old house being in a state of subsidence, they stuck up like hummocks. The count dashed recklessly forward, glanced through a half-open door and saw a very dirty room which resembled a barber's shop in a poor part of the town. In was furnished with two chairs, a mirror and a small table containing a drawer which had been blackened by the grease from brushes and combs. A great perspiring fellow with smoking shoulders was changing his linen there, while in a similar room next door a woman was drawing on her gloves preparatory to departure. Her hair was damp and out of curl, as though she had just had a bath. But Fauchery began calling the count, and the latter was rushing up without delay when a furious "damn!" burst from the corridor on the right. Mathilde, a little drab of a miss, had just broken her washhand basin, the soapy water from which was flowing out to the stairhead. A dressing room door banged noisily. Two women in their stays skipped across the passage, and another, with the hem of her shift in her mouth, appeared and immediately vanished from view. Then followed a sound of laughter, a dispute, the snatch of a song which was suddenly broken off short. All along the passage naked gleams, sudden visions of white skin and wan underlinen were observable through chinks in doorways. Two girls were making very merry, showing each other their birthmarks. One of them, a very young girl, almost a child, had drawn her skirts up over her knees in order to sew up a rent in her drawers, and the dressers, catching sight of the two men, drew some curtains half to for decency's sake. The wild stampede which follows the end of a play had already begun, the grand removal of white paint and rouge, the reassumption amid clouds of rice powder of ordinary attire. The strange animal scent came in whiffs of redoubled intensity through the lines of banging doors. On the third story Muffat abandoned himself to the feeling of intoxication which was overpowering him. For the chorus girls' dressing room was there, and you saw a crowd of twenty women and a wild display of soaps and flasks of lavender water. The place resembled the common room in a slum lodging house. As he passed by he heard fierce sounds of washing behind a closed door and a perfect storm raging in a washhand basin. And as he was mounting up to the topmost story of all, curiosity led him to risk one more little peep through an open loophole. The room was empty, and under the flare of the gas a solitary chamber pot stood forgotten among a heap of petticoats trailing on the floor. This room afforded him his ultimate impression. Upstairs on the fourth floor he was well-nigh suffocated. All the scents, all the blasts of heat, had found their goal there. The yellow ceiling looked as if it had been baked, and a lamp burned amid fumes of russet-colored fog. For some seconds he leaned upon the iron balustrade which felt warm and damp and well-nigh human to the touch. And he shut his eyes and drew a long breath and drank in the sexual atmosphere of the place. Hitherto he had been utterly ignorant of it, but now it beat full in his face. 伯爵走到楼梯脚下时，感到有一股炽热的气流吹到他的后颈上，热气中夹有一股女人身上发出的香味，这股香味是随着光线和声音一起从化妆室里落下来的；他每上一个梯级，那香粉的麝香味，梳洗水的酸醋味使他身上变得热乎乎的，他感到头晕目眩。二层楼上，有两条长长的走廊，拐弯处转得很陡然，两边的门都漆成黄色，上面有白色粗体字母号码，看上去颇像带出租家具、有暗娼出入的旅馆的房间；走廊上的地砖都活动了，一块块鼓起来，可见这座旧楼在下陷。伯爵壮着胆子从一扇半开半掩的门边往里瞟了一眼，房间里很脏，活像郊区的一个理发棚，里边只有两把椅子，一面镜子和一张带抽屉的条桌，桌面上被梳子上的油垢弄得黑乎乎的。一个汗流浃背的壮汉，肩上冒着热气，正在那里换衣服；而旁边那个同样的房间里，一个女人正在戴手套，准备出门；她的头发又直又潮湿，像刚刚洗过澡。伯爵走到三楼时，福什利叫他，这时听见右边走廊里有人怒气冲冲地骂了一句"他妈的！"；原来是马蒂尔德这个小邋遢鬼打破了脸盆，脸盆里的肥皂水一直流到楼梯的平台上。一间化妆室的门砰的一声关上了。两个穿着胸衣的女人一跳越过走廊；还有一个女人，用牙齿咬着衬衫的边沿，出现了一下就走了。随后，听到一阵笑声、争吵声和刚唱就突然中断了的歌声。沿着走廊，伯爵透过每个化妆室的门缝向里面看，他看见裸体的一些部位，白皙的皮肤，浅色的内衣，两个活泼快乐的女孩，互相让对方看自己身上的痣；一个很年轻、几乎还是孩子的姑娘把裙子撩到膝盖上面，正在缝补她的衬裤，这时服装员们瞅见两个男人走进来，一个个轻轻地把布帘放下来，以免有失体统。现在演出快结束了，人们忙碌不堪，演员们忙于洗脸上的白粉和胭脂，室内空气中白粉如雾，人们换上平常穿的礼服，从不时开开关关的门里散发出浓烈的臭味。到了四楼，缪法浑身渐渐陷入了昏昏沉沉的状态。群众演员的化妆室就在这一层；二十个女人挤在一起，肥皂和香水瓶放得杂乱无章，颇像城门入口处的检查大厅。缪法走过一扇紧关着的门口时，听见一阵急促的洗濯声，脸盆里的水发出暴风般的声音。随后，他上了最高一层楼，他出于好奇心，壮着胆量透过一个开着的窥视孔，向里边张望一下。屋子里阒无一人，在煤气灯光下，仅有一只被人遗忘的便壶，放在被人胡乱扔在地上的裙子中间。这个房间是他这次观看的最后一个房间。在这最高的第五层楼上，他感到喘不过气来。各种气味，全部热量统统涌到那里。黄色的天花板像被火烧焦似的，在黄橙橙的云雾中，一盏灯笼点燃着。他在铁栏杆边站了片刻，觉得铁栏杆像人体一样温暖，于是，他闭上眼睛，深深地吸了一口气，品味了一会女性的全部性感，而这种性感他还不知道，现在正向他的脸上袭来。 "Do come here," shouted Fauchery, who had vanished some moments ago. "You're being asked for."" 过来一下吧，"福什利喊道，他刚才离开了一会儿，"有人找你呢。" 
克拉利瑟和西蒙娜的化妆室在走廊的一端，这间屋子狭长，造得很粗糙，在屋顶下面，墙角倾斜，墙上有裂缝。光线是从屋顶上两个深深的洞眼射进来的。在夜晚这样的时刻，煤气灯的光焰照亮了化妆室，化妆室的墙上贴着每卷值七个苏的纸，上面印着爬在棕色架子上的玫瑰花。有两块木板并排放着，上面都盖着一块漆布，是当着梳妆台用的。漆布被泼散的污水染黑了，木板下面乱糟糟地放着一些碰瘪了的水罐，盛满污水的水桶，黄色粗陶水罐。屋子里还摆着一些劣质日用品，全被用得歪歪扭扭，肮脏不堪，脸盆有缺口，梳子缺齿。两个女人在卸装和洗脸时，匆匆忙忙，随便乱放，把她们周围的东西搞得凌乱不堪，这个地方不过是她们的暂时停留之处，肮脏与她们没有关系。 "Do come here," Fauchery repeated with the good-humored familiarity which men adopt among their fallen sisters. "Clarisse is wanting to kiss you."" 过来吧，"福什利像呆在娘儿们家里一样，用亲昵的男人口吻，又说道，"克拉利瑟想亲亲你呢。" Muffat entered the room at last. But what was his surprise when he found the Marquis de Chouard snugly enscounced on a chair between the two dressing tables! The marquis had withdrawn thither some time ago. He was spreading his feet apart because a pail was leaking and letting a whitish flood spread over the floor. He was visibly much at his ease, as became a man who knew all the snug corners, and had grown quite merry in the close dressing room, where people might have been bathing, and amid those quietly immodest feminine surroundings which the uncleanness of the little place rendered at once natural and poignant. 缪法终于进了屋子。他突然愣住了，他发现德·舒阿尔侯爵坐在两张梳妆台中间的一把椅子上。侯爵早已躲在这里了。他叉开两只脚，因为有一只水桶漏水，流出一潭灰白色的水。他看上去挺自在的，好地方他都知道。他精神抖擞地呆在这种令人窒息的浴缸般的地方，呆在这些心安理得、不知廉耻的女人中间，这个脏地方使她们变得天真而又放荡。 "D'you go with the old boy?" Simonne asked Clarisse in a whisper." 你会跟那个老头子去吗？"西蒙娜在克拉利瑟的耳畔问道。 "Rather!" replied the latter aloud." 我决不干！"克拉利瑟大声嚷道。 
她们的服装员是一个其貌不扬、不拘礼节的姑娘，她正在帮助西蒙娜穿大衣，听到她们两人的谈话，笑弯了腰。三个人互相推推撞撞打闹着，嘁嘁喳喳，显得十分快乐。 "Come, Clarisse, kiss the gentleman," said Fauchery. "You know, he's got the rhino."" 来吧，克拉利瑟，吻吻这位先生，"福什利又说，"你知道他很有钱。" And turning to the count: 接着，他又转向伯爵，说道： "You'll see, she's very nice! She's going to kiss you!"" 你等着瞧吧，她很可爱，她会吻你的。" But Clarisse was disgusted by the men. She spoke in violent terms of the dirty lot waiting at the porter's lodge down below. Besides, he was in a hurry to go downstairs again; they were making her miss her last scene. Then as Fauchery blocked up the doorway, she gave Muffat a couple of kisses on the whiskers, remarking as she did so: 然而，克拉利瑟对男人不感兴趣。她咒骂那些在楼下女门房那里等待的混蛋。另外，她又急着要下楼，她再跟他们呆着就要误场了。随后，因为福什利挡在门口，她就在缪法的脸颊上吻了两下，一边说道： 
无论如何，两个吻不是给你的！而是给缠住我的福什利的！" And with that she darted off, and the count remained much embarrassed in his father-in-law's presence. The blood had rushed to his face. In Nana's dressing room, amid all the luxury of hangings and mirrors, he had not experienced the sharp physical sensation which the shameful wretchedness of that sorry garret excited within him, redolent as it was of these two girls' self-abandonment. Meanwhile the marquis had hurried in the rear of Simonne, who was making off at the top of her pace, and he kept whispering in her ear while she shook her head in token of refusal. Fauchery followed them, laughing. And with that the count found himself alone with the dresser, who was washing out the basins. Accordingly he took his departure, too, his legs almost failing under him. Once more he put up flights of half-dressed women and caused doors to bang as he advanced. But amid the disorderly, disbanded troops of girls to be found on each of the four stories, he was only distinctly aware of a cat, a great tortoise-shell cat, which went gliding upstairs through the ovenlike place where the air was poisoned with musk, rubbing its back against the banisters and keeping its tail exceedingly erect. 说完，她一溜烟地走了。伯爵在他的岳父面前，显得很尴尬，一股血涌到了他的脸上。刚才在娜娜的化妆室里，面对那些华丽的帷幔和镜子，倒没有感到强烈的兴奋，这时在这间被两个女人弄得乱七八糟、令人羞愧的寒碜陋室里却感到这样兴奋。这时侯爵跟在匆匆忙忙下楼的西蒙娜后边走了，他贴在她的耳边说话，而她总是摇摇头。福什利笑着跟在他们后边。这样，只有伯爵一个人和服装员留下来，服装员在洗脸盆。接着，伯爵也走了，他下楼梯时，两腿发软，他前面几个穿衬裙的女人，被他再次吓跑了。他走到她们门口时，她们把门砰的一声关上了。他跑了四层楼，每层都有卸了装的姑娘，她们三三两两，到处乱跑。他只看清楚一只猫，那是一只大红猫，在这个散发着香粉臭气、热得像火炉的地方，沿着梯级乱窜，还翘着尾巴，把背贴在栏杆的扶手上擦痒。 "Yes, to be sure!" said a woman hoarsely. "I thought they'd keep us back tonight! What a nuisance they are with their calls!"" 唉！"一个嗓子嘶哑的女人说道，"我还以为他们今晚不让我们下台呢！……这些讨厌的观众，还一次次鼓掌要求我们谢幕呢！" The end had come; the curtain had just fallen. There was a veritable stampede on the staircase--its walls rang with exclamations, and everyone was in a savage hurry to dress and be off. As Count Muffat came down the last step or two he saw Nana and the prince passing slowly along the passage. The young woman halted and lowered her voice as she said with a smile: 演出结束，幕布落了下来。楼梯上响起急促的脚步声，楼梯间一片呼喊声，大家都匆匆忙忙穿衣服，忙着回家。缪法伯爵走到最后一级楼梯时，看见娜娜和王子慢吞吞地走在走廊上。娜娜停下脚步，接着莞尔一笑，放低噪门说道： "All right then--by and by!"" 就这样吧，等会儿见。" 
王子回到舞台上，博尔德纳夫在那里等他呢。于是，只有缪法一个人和娜娜在一起，他在怒气和性欲的驱使下，跑到娜娜的背后，当她向化妆室走去时，他在她的后颈上狂吻了一下，吻的部位是在两肩中间长得很低的卷曲、毛茸茸的一撮撮短发上。这个吻好像是对他在楼上时受到的吻的回报。娜娜生气了，抬起手来想打人。当她认出伯爵来时，嫣然一笑。 "Oh, you frightened me," she said simply." 哦！你把我吓坏了。"她只说了一句。 And her smile was adorable in its embarrassment and submissiveness, as though she had despaired of this kiss and were happy to have received it. But she could do nothing for him either that evening or the day after. It was a case of waiting. Nay, even if it had been in her power she would still have let herself be desired. Her glance said as much. At length she continued: 她笑得挺可爱的，露出一副羞答答、乖顺的样子，好像原来对这一吻已经不抱希望了，而现在得到了，感到欣喜万分。但是，她不能迎合他的要求，今天晚上和明天都不行。必须让他等待一个时期。即使行，她也要吊吊他的胃口。从她的眼神中已经看出了这个意思。她最后说道： "I'm a landowner, you know. Yes, I'm buying a country house near Orleans, in a part of the world to which you sometimes betake yourself. Baby told me you did--little Georges Hugon, I mean. You know him? So come and see me down there."" 你知道，我有房子了……是的，我买了一座乡间别墅，靠近奥尔良，那个地方你有时去玩，这是宝宝告诉我的，就是小乔治·于贡，你认识他吗？你到那儿来看我吧。" The count was a shy man, and the thought of his roughness had frightened him; he was ashamed of what he had done and he bowed ceremoniously, promising at the same time to take advantage of her invitation. Then he walked off as one who dreams. 伯爵是个胆小的人，对自己刚才的唐突行动感到愧怕。他彬彬有礼地向她鞠了一个躬，并答应她一定接受她的邀请。随后，他走了，一边走一边想这想那。 
他赶上了王子，走到演员休息室门前时，听见萨丹叫道： "Oh, the dirty old thing! Just you bloody well leave me alone!"" 你是个下流的老头子！让我安静点吧！" It was the Marquis de Chouard who was tumbling down over Satin. The girl had decidedly had enough of the fashionable world! Nana had certainly introduced her to Bordenave, but the necessity of standing with sealed lips for fear of allowing some awkward phrase to escape her had been too much for her feelings, and now she was anxious to regain her freedom, the more so as she had run against an old flame of hers in the wings. This was the super, to whom the task of impersonating Pluto had been entrusted, a pastry cook, who had already treated her to a whole week of love and flagellation. She was waiting for him, much irritated at the things the marquis was saying to her, as though she were one of those theatrical ladies! And so at last she assumed a highly respectable expression and jerked out this phrase: 她骂的是德·舒阿尔侯爵，他不得已而找上了萨丹。但是她对上流社会的人物特别厌恶。娜娜刚才把她介绍给博尔德纳夫。不过，像这样呆着，嘴上贴上封条，生怕说出蠢话，这着实叫她受不了；现在她想得到补偿，正巧她在后台碰上了过去的情人，就是扮演冥王的那个配角。此人是糕点师，曾经给过她一个星期的爱情和耳光。她在等他，侯爵把她当成剧院的一个女演员，同她讲话，使她非常恼怒。所以，最后她摆出一副十分尊严的样子，说出这样一句话： "My husband's coming! You'll see."" 我丈夫就要来了，你等着瞧吧！"
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