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这时，演员们穿着大衣，面容疲乏，一个接一个走了。男人们和女人们三五成群从小螺旋楼梯上往下走，在昏暗中，依稀看见一顶顶破旧的帽子，一条条起皱的披肩和卸装后的一张张群众演员的灰白、丑陋的面孔。舞台上，边灯和布景照明灯全都熄灭了，王子在听博尔德纳夫讲一件轶事。他想等娜娜。当娜娜终于来到时，舞台上已一片漆黑，值班消防队员提着灯笼在作最后巡逻。博尔德纳夫为了不让王子殿下绕道从全景胡同走，便叫人打开了门房室通往剧院前厅那条走廊。沿着这条通道，小娘儿们乱哄哄地奔走，她们都很高兴，因为这样避开了在全景胡同正在等待她们的男人们。她们你推我搡，不时回过头来望望，到了外边才舒了口气，然而丰唐、博斯克和普律利埃尔却慢悠悠地走着，一边嘲笑那些装得严肃的男人们。他们还在游艺剧院的门廊下踱来踱去，这时候小娘儿们已跟着她们的情郎从大街上溜走了。克拉利瑟特别机灵，她对拉法卢瓦兹严加提防。拉法卢瓦兹果然还没走，呆在门房室里，同一些先生坐在布龙太太的椅子上死命地等待。他们每个人都仰着脸，眼巴巴地等着。于是，克拉利瑟便躲在一个女友的身后，一下子溜走了。这些先生们眨着眼皮，看到那些旋涡般的裙子从狭窄的楼梯脚下过去，他们等了那么长时间，看见她们一个个走过去，却没有认出一个人来，非常扫兴。那一窝小黑猫贴着母猫的肚子睡在漆布上，母猫怡然自得，伸长爪子，而那只大红公猫则坐在桌子的另一头，伸长尾巴，用黄眼睛看着那些逃走的女人。 "If His Highness will be good enough to come this way," said Bordenave at the bottom of the stairs, and he pointed to the passage." 请殿下从这边走。"他们到了楼梯底下，博尔德纳夫指着走廊说道。 Some chorus girls were still crowding along it. The prince began following Nana while Muffat and the marquis walked behind.It was a long, narrow passage lying between the theater and the house next door, a kind of contracted by-lane which had been covered with a sloping glass roof. Damp oozed from the walls, and the footfall sounded as hollow on the tiled floor as in an underground vault. It was crowded with the kind of rubbish usually found in a garret. There was a workbench on which the porter was wont to plane such parts of the scenery as required it, besides a pile of wooden barriers which at night were placed at the doors of the theater for the purpose of regulating the incoming stream of people. Nana had to pick up her dress as she passed a hydrant which, through having been carelessly turned off, was flooding the tiles underfoot. In the entrance hall the company bowed and said good-by. And when Bordenave was alone he summed up his opinion of the prince in a shrug of eminently philosophic disdain. 有几个女群众演员还挤在走廊里。王子跟在娜娜后面。缪法和侯爵殿后。这是一条狭长的小巷，在剧院和相邻的房屋中间，屋顶是倾斜的，上面开了几个玻璃天窗，墙壁上渗出潮气。行人踏在石板地上发出的响声，像在地道里行走的声音。这里堆满了该放在阁楼里的东西，有一个木工台，门房常在上面刨布景架，还有一堆木栏杆，晚上放在剧院门口，供观众排队入场。娜娜经过一个界石形水龙头前时，不得不撩起裙子，因为水龙头关不严，水流出来了，淹没了石板地。到了剧院前，大家互相施礼告辞。后来，只剩下博尔德纳夫一个人时，他耸耸肩膀，这个动作充分表达了对王子的蔑视，也表达了对王子的全部评价。 "He's a bit of a duffer all the same," he said to Fauchery without entering on further explanations, and with that Rose Mignon carried the journalist off with her husband in order to effect a reconciliation between them at home." 尽管他是王子，还有点缺乏教养。"他对福什利说道，但并未详细解释。罗丝·米尼翁把福什利和她的丈夫领来，她想带他们两人到她家里，劝他们重新和好。 Muffat was left alone on the sidewalk. His Highness had handed Nana quietly into his carriage, and the marquis had slipped off after Satin and her super. In his excitement he was content to follow this vicious pair in vague hopes of some stray favor being granted him. Then with brain on fire Muffat decided to walk home. The struggle within him had wholly ceased. The ideas and beliefs of the last forty years were being drowned in a flood of new life. While he was passing along the boulevards the roll of the last carriages deafened him with the name of Nana; the gaslights set nude limbs dancing before his eyes--the nude limbs, the lithe arms, the white shoulders, of Nana. And he felt that he was hers utterly: he would have abjured everything, sold everything, to possess her for a single hour that very night. Youth, a lustful puberty of early manhood, was stirring within him at last, flaming up suddenly in the chaste heart of the Catholic and amid the dignified traditions of middle age. 缪法一个人站在人行道上。王子殿下刚才不慌不忙地扶着娜娜上了他的马车。侯爵跟在萨丹和她的配角后面走着，他很兴奋，高兴地跟在那对不正经的男女后面，心里抱着得到萨丹青睐的一线希望。这时，缪法的头脑发胀，决定步行回家。他头脑里的一切斗争停止了，一种新生活的浪潮淹没了他四十年的观念和信仰。他沿着一条条大马路走时，夜间最后几辆马车的车轮的辘辘声，仿佛是呼唤娜娜名字的声音，简直把他的耳朵都震聋了。在煤气灯光下，他眼前似乎出现了娜娜那晃动的裸体，出现了她那柔软的胳膊和白皙的肩膀；他觉得娜娜占有了他，只要他在当天晚上能占有她一小时，他把什么都抛弃掉，把什么都卖掉，也在所不惜。他青春时期的情欲终于重新燃起，一股贪婪的青春烈火在他冷漠的天主教徒的心中骤然燃烧起来，也在他成年人的尊严中骤然燃烧起来。 
昨天晚上，缪法伯爵偕同妻子和女儿，来到了丰岱特庄园，呆在庄园里的只有于贡夫人和她的儿子乔治，她邀请他们到庄园来住一个星期。他们的房屋是十七世纪末建造的，四周是方方正正的大围墙，房子外观朴实无华；但花园里却绿树成荫，几口池塘里的水都是流水，从山泉流来。庄园坐落在由奥尔良通往巴黎的公路旁边，树木葱葱绿绿，宛如一片碧浪，打破了这个平原地区的一望无垠的农田的单调景色。 At eleven o'clock, when the second lunch bell had called the whole household together, Mme Hugon, smiling in her kindly maternal way, gave Sabine two great kisses, one on each cheek, and said as she did so: 十一点钟，午饭的钟声敲响第二下时，大家便聚集到一起，于贡夫人脸上浮现出慈母般的微笑，在萨比娜的脸颊上吻了两下，说道： "You know it's my custom in the country. Oh, seeing you here makes me feel twenty years younger. Did you sleep well in your old room?"" 你知道，我住在乡下已经习惯了……看见你来了，我仿佛年轻了二十岁……在你以前住过的房间里，这一夜，睡得好吧？" Then without waiting for her reply she turned to Estelle: 接着，还未等到萨比娜回答，她又转向爱丝泰勒，说道： "And this little one, has she had a nap too? Give me a kiss, my child."" 这个小姑娘也是一觉睡到天亮吧？……来吻我一下吧，我的孩子……" 
大家已经在一间宽敞的饭厅里坐了下来，饭厅窗户都朝向花园。大家坐在大餐桌的一头，互相靠得很紧，这样显得更亲热些。萨比娜兴高采烈，此时此地唤起了她对年轻时代的回忆：她曾经在丰岱特住过几个月，在这里作过长距离的散步，夏天的一个夜晚，不小心掉进一口池塘里，在一个衣柜里发现一本旧骑士小说，冬天她坐在葡萄枝点燃的火堆前读这本小说。乔治已有几个月没有看见伯爵夫人了，他觉得她有些古怪，容貌似乎有些变化；相反，这根瘦竹杆子爱丝泰勒，却显得更加平平常常，沉默寡言，呆板得很。 While such simple fare as cutlets and boiled eggs was being discussed by the company, Mme Hugon, as became a good housekeeper, launched out into complaints. The butchers, she said, were becoming impossible. She bought everything at Orleans, and yet they never brought her the pieces she asked for. Yet, alas, if her guests had nothing worth eating it was their own fault: they had come too late in the season. 大家吃得很简单，只吃了带壳煮的溏心蛋和排骨。于贡夫人是个家庭妇女，她抱怨肉店真不像话，送来的肉从来没有一块是合她意的，她只好一切都到奥尔良去买。另外，这次客人们吃得不满意，要怪他们自己，因为他们姗姗来迟，错过了时节。 "There's no sense in it," she said. "I've been expecting you since June, and now we're half through September. You see, it doesn't look pretty."" 你们真没有常识，"她说道，"我从六月份起就一直盼望你们来，眼下已到了九月中旬……所以，你们瞧，没有什么景色可欣赏了。" And with a movement she pointed to the trees on the grass outside, the leaves of which were beginning to turn yellow. The day was covered, and the distance was hidden by a bluish haze which was fraught with a sweet and melancholy peacefulness. 她用手指指了指外面已经开始发黄的草地里的树木。天空阴沉沉的，远处笼罩在一片淡蓝色的雾气中，一派恬静、寂静景色，令人惆怅。 "Oh, I'm expecting company," she continued. "We shall be gayer then! The first to come will be two gentlemen whom Georges has invited--Monsieur Fauchery and Monsieur Daguenet; you know them, do you not? Then we shall have Monsieur de Vandeuvres, who has promised me a visit these five years past. This time, perhaps, he'll make up his mind!"" 啊！我还要等几个客人，"她继续说道，"客人来了我们就快乐起来……乔治邀请的客人首先是福什利先生和达盖内先生，你们大概认识他们吧？……还有德·旺德夫尔先生，他在五年前就答应我要来的；今年他也许会下决心来吧。" 
好啊！"伯爵夫人笑着说，"那怕只邀请到旺德夫尔一个人也好！他非常忙。" "And Philippe?" queried Muffat." 菲利普呢？"缪法问道。 "Philippe has asked for a furlough," replied the old lady, "but without doubt you won't be at Les Fondettes any longer when he arrives."" 菲利普请过假了，"老太太回答道，"等他回来时，你们也许不在丰岱特了。" The coffee was served. Paris was now the subject of conversation, and Steiner's name was mentioned, at which Mme Hugon gave a little cry. 咖啡端来了。大家一下子又谈到巴黎，有人提到斯泰内的名字。听到这个名字，于贡夫人轻轻叫了一声。 "Let me see," she said; "Monsieur Steiner is that stout man I met at your house one evening. He's a banker, is he not? Now there's a detestable man for you! Why, he's gone and bought an actress an estate about a league from here, over Gumieres way, beyond the Choue. The whole countryside's scandalized. Did you know about that, my friend?"" 顺便问一下，"她说道，"斯泰内先生，是不是就是一天晚上我在你家里遇到的那个胖子，是个银行家？……这个人真不光彩！他在离这里一里远的地方，为一个女演员买了一座别墅，就在舒河后面，靠近居米埃尔那里！这个地方的人对他都很反感……我的朋友，你知道这件事吗？" 
我一点也不知道，"缪法回答道，"哦，斯泰内在附近买了一座别墅！" Hearing his mother broach the subject, Georges looked into his coffee cup, but in his astonishment at the count's answer he glanced up at him and stared. Why was he lying so glibly? The count, on his side, noticed the young fellow's movement and gave him a suspicious glance. Mme Hugon continued to go into details: the country place was called La Mignotte. In order to get there one had to go up the bank of the Choue as far as Gumieres in order to cross the bridge; otherwise one got one's feet wet and ran the risk of a ducking. 乔治听到她母亲提起这件事时，正在低头喝咖啡；他抬起头来，瞧瞧伯爵，对他的回答感到很惊讶。他为什么这样公然撒谎？而伯爵呢，他也注意到了年轻人的动作，他以怀疑的目光瞧了他一下。于贡夫人继续说得更详细了：这座别墅取名"藏娇楼"，沿舒河而上，一直到居米埃尔，再过一座桥，就到了。这样走，整整多走二公里；不然，就要涉水过河，要冒落水的危险。 "And what is the actress's name?" asked the countess." 那个女演员叫什么名字？"伯爵夫人问道。 "Oh, I wasn't told," murmured the old lady. "Georges, you were there the morning the gardener spoke to us about it."" 啊！对了，有人向我提到过她，"老太太喃喃说道，"今天早上园丁告诉我们的时候，乔治，你也在场……" Georges appeared to rack his brains. Muffat waited, twirling a teaspoon between his fingers. Then the countess addressed her husband: 乔治装出记不清楚的样子。缪法一边用手指转动着一把汤匙，一边等待乔治回答。伯爵夫人对她丈夫说道： 
斯泰内先生是否就是那个与游艺剧院的女歌星娜娜相好的人？" "Nana, that's the name! A horrible woman!" cried Mme Hugon with growing annoyance. "And they are expecting her at La Mignotte. I've heard all about it from the gardener. Didn't the gardener say they were expecting her this evening, Georges?"" 娜娜，正是她，真讨厌！"于贡夫人气愤地说道，"有人在'藏娇楼'里等她来呢。这些情况都是园丁告诉我的……你说是吗，乔治？园丁说她今天晚上就来。" The count gave a little start of astonishment, but Georges replied with much vivacity: 伯爵惊讶得身上轻轻打了一下哆嗦，乔治抢先说道： "Oh, Mother, the gardener spoke without knowing anything about it. Directly afterward the coachman said just the opposite. Nobody's expected at La Mignotte before the day after tomorrow."" 哦，妈妈，园丁不了解情况……刚才车夫说的情况正好相反，后天之前不会有任何人来'藏娇楼'。" He tried hard to assume a natural expression while he slyly watched the effect of his remarks on the count. The latter was twirling his spoon again as though reassured. The countess, her eyes fixed dreamily on the blue distances of the park, seemed to have lost all interest in the conversation. The shadow of a smile on her lips, she seemed to be following up a secret thought which had been suddenly awakened within her. Estelle, on the other hand, sitting stiffly on her chair, had heard all that had been said about Nana, but her white, virginal face had not betrayed a trace of emotion. 乔治竭力做出神态自然的样子，一边用眼角观察伯爵对他的话的反应。伯爵这时又转动起小汤匙来，看样子他放心了。伯爵夫人目不转睛地凝望着远处花园的淡蓝色薄雾，似乎不再听他们谈话。随着脸上浮现的一丝微笑，她的思路跟着突然唤起的秘密想法转动；这时爱丝泰勒直挺挺地坐在椅子上，听了大家谈到娜娜的情况，她的白皙的处女脸上，没有丝毫反应。 
我的天，"于贡太太沉默了一会，恢复了她纯朴善良的脾气，悄悄说道， "Everybody's got a right to live. If we meet this said lady on the road we shall not bow to her--that's all!"" 我不该生气……每个人都要活下去嘛……这个女人，如果我们在路上遇到她，不同她打招呼就行了。" And as they got up from table she once more gently upbraided the Countess Sabine for having been so long in coming to her that year. But the countess defended herself and threw the blame of the delays upon her husband's shoulders. Twice on the eve of departure, when all the trunks were locked, he counterordered their journey on the plea of urgent business. Then he had suddenly decided to start just when the trip seemed shelved. Thereupon the old lady told them how Georges in the same way had twice announced his arrival without arriving and had finally cropped up at Les Fondettes the day before yesterday, when she was no longer expecting him. They had come down into the garden, and the two men, walking beside the ladies, were listening to them in consequential silence. 大家散席时，她还埋怨萨比娜伯爵夫人今年不该让她等得那么久。但是伯爵夫人为自己辩护，她把来迟的责任推到她丈夫的身上；有两次连箱子都收拾好了，临走前他又变挂了，说有紧急事情要处理；后来，看来旅行计划完全告吹了，他却又突然决定来了。于是，老太太又说，乔治也一样，两次说要来，结果都没有来，后来她已不指望他来了，结果他却在前天晚上突然来到了丰岱特。大家走向花园，两个女人走在中间，两个男人走在左右两边，他们低着头，静静地听她们讲话。 "Never mind," said Mme Hugon, kissing her son's sunny locks, "Zizi is a very good boy to come and bury himself in the country with his mother. He's a dear Zizi not to forget me!"" 不过这也不要紧，"于贡太太说，她在她儿子的金色头发上吻了吻，"小治治真乖，这次他肯来到这个偏僻的乡间，同妈妈在一起……这个好治治，他还没有忘记我。" In the afternoon she expressed some anxiety, for Georges, directly after leaving the table, had complained of a heavy feeling in his head and now seemed in for an atrocious sick headache. Toward four o'clock he said he would go upstairs to bed: it was the only remedy. After sleeping till tomorrow morning he would be perfectly himself again. His mother was bent on putting him to bed herself, but as she left the room he ran and locked the door, explaining that he was shutting himself in so that no one should come and disturb him. Then caressingly he shouted, "Good night till tomorrow, little Mother!" and promised to take a nap. But he did not go to bed again and with flushed cheeks and bright eyes noiselessly put on his clothes. Then he sat on a chair and waited. When the dinner bell rang he listened for Count Muffat, who was on his way to the dining room, and ten minutes later, when he was certain that no one would see him, he slipped from the window to the ground with the assistance of a rain pipe. His bedroom was situated on the first floor and looked out upon the rear of the house. He threw himself among some bushes and got out of the park and then galloped across the fields with empty stomach and heart beating with excitement.Night was closing in, and a small fine rain was beginning to fall. 下午，她感到焦虑不安，乔治刚刚离席时，就说头脑发沉，似乎慢慢地变成剧烈的偏头痛。快到四点钟时，他就想上楼睡觉，这是唯一的治疗方法；只要他一觉睡到第二天早上，就什么病也没有了。他母亲坚持要亲自送他上床睡觉。但她一出了房间，乔治就从床上跳下来，把门反锁上了，他借口说把自己反锁在房间里，免得别人来打扰他；然后，他亲热地叫道："晚安，妈妈，明天见！"同时他答应一觉睡到大天亮。事实上，他下床后没有再躺下，脸上毫无病容，目光炯炯，他悄悄地穿上衣服，然后，坐到一张椅子上，一动不动，静静地等待着。晚饭钟声敲响时，他窥伺着向饭厅走去的缪法。十分钟后，他觉得肯定不会被人看见了，就敏捷地爬上窗户，抓住一条下水管溜到室外；他的卧室在二楼，窗户朝向房子的背面。他钻进一片树丛中，出了花园，在田野上奔跑，向着舒河方向而去，他的肚子里空空的，激动得心怦怦直跳。夜幕降临了，开始下起毛毛细雨。 
这天晚上，娜娜确实要到"藏娇楼"来。自从五月份斯泰内给她买下这座别墅以来，她不时想到这里来居住，为这事她还流过泪呢；可是，每次她要来，博尔德纳夫总是连最短时间的假也不批准，说要到九月份才能让她走，借口在博览会期间，他不想找别人来代她演出，那怕一个晚上也不行。快到八月底时，他又说要等到十月份才行。娜娜恼火了，宣称九月十五日她要到"藏娇楼"来。她甚至跟博尔德纳夫对着干，当着他的面，邀请一大群人同往。她一直巧妙地拒绝缪法对她的追求，一天下午，他在她家里，浑身哆嗦着苦苦哀求她，她终于答应了他的要求，但是要她去了"藏娇楼"才行；她也要求他在九月十五日到那里。到了十二日，她心血来潮，突然一个人带着佐爱走了。如果博尔德纳夫事先知道了，也许会想出办法不让她走。她给博尔德纳夫捎去医生开的一张证明，把他扔下不管，这样做她觉得非常开心。她第一个到达"藏娇楼"，神不知鬼不觉地在那里住上两天的想法在她头脑里产生时，她便催促佐爱收拾行李，把她推上出租马车。在马车里，她对佐爱非常亲热，一边请求她原谅，一边吻她。一直到了火车站的小吃部，她才想到要写一封信通知斯泰内。她请斯泰内在大后天与她见面，如果他希望他们见面时她精神充沛的话。接着，她的头脑里又突然出现另一个想法，她又写了一封信给她的姑妈，请她立刻把小路易带来。这样对小宝宝非常有好处，大家在树荫下一起玩玩，该多好啊！从巴黎到奥尔良，她在车厢里一直谈着这件事，谈着谈着，她的眼睛都流泪了，突然大发母爱之情，竟把花呀、鸟呀和她的孩子夹在一起大谈特谈。 La Mignotte was more than three leagues away from the station, and Nana lost a good hour over the hire of a carriage, a huge, dilapidated calash, which rumbled slowly along to an accompaniment of rattling old iron. She had at once taken possession of the coachman, a little taciturn old man whom she overwhelmed with questions. Had he often passed by La Mignotte? It was behind this hill then? There ought to be lots of trees there, eh? And the house could one see it at a distance? The little old man answered with a succession of grunts. Down in the calash Nana was almost dancing with impatience, while Zoe, in her annoyance at having left Paris in such a hurry, sat stiffly sulking beside her. The horse suddenly stopped short, and the young woman thought they had reached their destination. She put her head out of the carriage door and asked:" 藏娇楼"别墅距火车站三法里有余。娜娜花了一个小时才雇到一辆马车，那是一辆破旧的敞篷四轮马车，车速很慢，车轮发出哐当哐当的声音。车夫是个不爱言谈的矮个子老头，她马上缠着他，向他提出一连串问题。例如：他是否经常在"藏娇楼"别墅前经过？"藏娇楼"是否就在这座小山岗的后面？那儿是否树木很多？那座房子是否在老远的地方就能望见？矮老头子被问得支支吾吾。娜娜坐在马车里，高兴得坐立不安；而佐爱则不然，还在为匆匆忙忙地离开巴黎而怄气呢，她直撅撅地坐在里面，面色阴郁。马突然停步了，娜娜以为到了目的地。她把头探到车门外，问道： "Are we there, eh?"" 我们到了吗？嗯？" By way of answer the driver whipped up his horse, which was in the act of painfully climbing a hill. Nana gazed ecstatically at the vast plain beneath the gray sky where great clouds were banked up. 车夫没有回答，扬起马鞭赶马，马艰难地爬到了坡上。娜娜喜出望外地眺望灰色天空下的那片一望无垠的原野，只见天空中乌云密布。 "Oh, do look, Zoe! There's greenery! Now, is that all wheat? Good lord, how pretty it is!"" 啊！佐爱，你瞧，这是一片草！……这是麦子吗？……天呀！多美的景色！" 
人家一看太太就知道不是乡下人，"女仆绷着脸终于开口了，"我呀，我对农村倒很熟悉，我在一个牙科医生家里干过活，他在布吉瓦尔有一座房屋……所以，我知道今天晚上一定很冷，这一带天气很潮湿。" They were driving under the shadow of a wood, and Nana sniffed up the scent of the leaves as a young dog might. All of a sudden at a turn of the road she caught sight of the corner of a house among the trees. Perhaps it was there! And with that she began a conversation with the driver, who continued shaking his head by way of saying no. Then as they drove down the other side of the hill he contented himself by holding out his whip and muttering, "'Tis down there." 他们到了树丛下面。娜娜像只小狗，嗅着树叶发出的香味。在大路转弯的地方，她忽然瞥见露在树枝中的房屋的一角。大概就是那儿吧；接着，她又跟车夫谈话了，车夫总是摇摇头，意思是她说得不对。后来，他们下山岗的另一道坡时，车夫用马鞭一指，低声说道："瞧，在那边。" She got up and stretched herself almost bodily out of the carriage door. 她站起来，整个身子伸到车门外。 "Where is it? Where is it?" she cried with pale cheeks, but as yet she saw nothing." 哪儿？哪儿？"她什么也没望见，脸色发白，大声叫道。 At last she caught sight of a bit of wall. And then followed a succession of little cries and jumps, the ecstatic behavior of a woman overcome by a new and vivid sensation. 她终于望见一角墙壁。于是她在马车里又叫又跳，情绪非常激动，简直控制不住自己了。 
佐爱，我望见了，我望见了！……你到这边看看……啊！屋顶上还有一个砖砌的阳台呢。那是一个暖房！啊！这座房子真大……啊，我多么高兴！看吧，佐爱，看吧！" A side door was opened, and the gardener, a tall, dry fellow, made his appearance, cap in hand. Nana made an effort to regain her dignity, for the driver seemed now to be suppressing a laugh behind his dry, speechless lips. She refrained from setting off at a run and listened to the gardener, who was a very talkative fellow. He begged Madame to excuse the disorder in which she found everything, seeing that he had only received Madame's letter that very morning. But despite all his efforts, she flew off at a tangent and walked so quickly that Zoe could scarcely follow her. At the end of the avenue she paused for a moment in order to take the house in at a glance. It was a great pavilionlike building in the Italian manner, and it was flanked by a smaller construction, which a rich Englishman, after two years' residence in Naples, had caused to be erected and had forthwith become disgusted with. 一扇小门打开了，走出一个瘦高个子园丁，手里拿着一顶鸭舌帽。娜娜又摆出一副尊严的样子，因为车夫虽然紧闭嘴不说话，但样子却像在暗暗发笑。她克制住自己，没有向里面跑，站在那儿听车夫讲话。园丁是个爱唠叨的人，他请太太原谅那里没有收拾整齐，因为他早上刚刚收到太太的信。娜娜虽然尽量克制自己，还是拔腿就走，她走得很快，佐爱赶不上她。走到小路的一头，她停下脚步，站了片刻，把整座房子看了一眼。这是一座颇具意大利风格的大别墅，旁边有一座较小的房屋，是一个英国富翁在那不勒斯居住两年后，到这里建造的；建后不久他就住厌了。 "I'll take Madame over the house," said the gardener." 我领太太看看吧。"园丁说道。 But she had outrun him entirely, and she shouted back that he was not to put himself out and that she would go over the house by herself. She preferred doing that, she said. And without removing her hat she dashed into the different rooms, calling to Zoe as she did so, shouting her impressions from one end of each corridor to the other and filling the empty house, which for long months had been uninhabited, with exclamations and bursts of laughter. In the first place, there was the hall. It was a little damp, but that didn't matter; one wasn't going to sleep in it. Then came the drawing room, quite the thing, the drawing room, with its windows opening on the lawn. Only the red upholsteries there were hideous; she would alter all that. As to the dining room-well, it was a lovely dining room, eh? What big blowouts you might give in Paris if you had a dining room as large as that! As she was going upstairs to the first floor it occurred to her that she had not seen the kitchen, and she went down again and indulged in ecstatic exclamations. Zoe ought to admire the beautiful dimensions of the sink and the width of the hearth, where you might have roasted a sheep! When she had gone upstairs again her bedroom especially enchanted her. It had been hung with delicate rose-colored Louis XVI cretonne by an Orleans upholsterer. Dear me, yes! One ought to sleep jolly sound in such a room as that; why, it was a real best bedroom! Then came four or five guest chambers and then some splendid garrets, which would be extremely convenient for trunks and boxes. Zoe looked very gruff and cast a frigid glance into each of the rooms as she lingered in Madame's wake. She saw Nana disappearing up the steep garret ladder and said, "Thanks, I haven't the least wish to break my legs." But the sound of a voice reached her from far away; indeed, it seemed to come whistling down a chimney. 娜娜抢先走在前头，她大声对他说，叫他不必去了，她喜欢一个人去看，她喜欢这样。她连帽子也没有脱下来，就跑进了房间里，一边喊佐爱，一边发表议论，声音从走廊的一端传到另一端，使这座几个月无人住居的、空荡荡的房子里充满了她的喊声和笑声。她一进门看到的是前厅，里面有点潮湿，不过，这倒没关系，没有人在这里睡觉。客厅的窗户都朝向草坪，显得十分雅致；只是红色的家具很难看，她将把家具换掉。至于饭厅，嗯，漂亮极了！在巴黎如果有这样大的一间饭厅，什么样的婚筵酒席都能摆！她走到二楼时，突然想起还没有看厨房，就又下楼了，一看就惊叫起来，洗碗槽那么漂亮，炉膛那么大，简直能在里面烤一只整山羊，佐爱看了肯定会赞不绝口。她又上了二楼，她的卧室令她兴奋不已，这间卧室是由一个奥尔良的地毯商人布置的，里面挂的全是提花装饰布，款式是路易十六式的，颜色是粉红色的。啊！在里面睡觉该是多么惬意啊！真是一个明星演员的安乐窝！另外，还有四五间客房；然后再往上去是漂亮的阁楼，里面非常适合放箱子。佐爱很不乐意，总是慢吞吞地跟随在夫人后面，对每个房间冷淡地看上一眼。她望着太太向阁楼上爬，等她爬到陡直的梯子顶端时，佐爱看不见她了。谢天谢地！她才不想跟在太太后边摔断腿呢。可是这时她听见一个声音从远处传来，仿佛是从壁炉的烟囱里传来的。①旧时土地面积单位，约合二十至五十公亩。 "Zoe, Zoe, where are you? Come up, do! You've no idea! It's like fairyland!"" 佐爱！佐爱！你在哪里？上来吧！……你真想象不到……这里简直是仙境。" 
佐爱嘀嘀咕咕往上爬。她发现太太站在屋顶上，手撑在砖头栏杆上，眺望着越远越开阔的山谷。地平线一望无垠，淹没在一片灰蒙蒙的雾气中，一阵狂风夹着细雨拂来。娜娜只好用双手抓住帽子，生怕它被风吹走，她的裙子被风吹得飘拂着，像旗帜一样在风中噼啪作响。 "Not if I know it!" said Zoe, drawing her head in at once. "Madame will be blown away. What beastly weather!"" 啊！不，我不来了！"佐爱一边把头缩回来，一边说道，"太太会被风刮跑的……这倒霉的天气！"
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