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为了婚事家中在准备一切。征求了医生的意见，认为二月份可以举行婚礼。目前还是十二月。几个星期美满幸福的愉快日子过去了。 The grandfather was not the least happy of them all. He remained for a quarter of an hour at a time gazing at Cosette. 外祖父同样感到欢乐。他时常久久地凝视着珂赛特。 "The wonderful, beautiful girl!" he exclaimed. "And she has so sweet and good an air! She is, without exception, the most charming girl that I have ever seen in my life. Later on, she'll have virtues with an odor of violets. How graceful! One cannot live otherwise than nobly with such a creature. Marius, my boy, you are a Baron, you are rich, don't go to pettifogging, I beg of you." “奇妙的美姑娘！”他大声说，“她的神情是如此温柔善良！没得说的，我的意中人，这是我生平见到的最俊俏的姑娘。将来她的美德就象紫罗兰一样馨香。这真是一个天仙！应当和她在高贵的环境中相处。马吕斯，我的孩子，你是男爵，你富有，我求你不要再去当律师了。” Cosette and Marius had passed abruptly from the sepulchre to paradise. The transition had not been softened, and they would have been stunned, had they not been dazzled by it. 珂赛特和马吕斯忽然从坟墓里上升到了天堂。转变是如此突然，他们俩如果不是眼花缭乱，也会目瞪口呆的。 "Do you understand anything about it?" said Marius to Cosette. “你明白这是怎么回事吗？”马吕斯问珂赛特。 
“不，”珂赛特回答，“但是我感到上帝在瞧着我们。”冉阿让办理一切，铺平道路，调停一切，使事情顺利推进。表面看来他似乎和珂赛特一样愉快，他殷切地盼望着她的幸福能早日来临。 As he had been a mayor, he understood how to solve that delicate problem, with the secret of which he alone was acquainted, Cosette's civil status. If he were to announce her origin bluntly, it might prevent the marriage, who knows? He extricated Cosette from all difficulties. He concocted for her a family of dead people, a sure means of not encountering any objections. Cosette was the only scion of an extinct family; Cosette was not his own daughter, but the daughter of the other Fauchelevent. Two brothers Fauchelevent had been gardeners to the convent of the Petit-Picpus. Inquiry was made at that convent; the very best information and the most respectable references abounded; the good nuns, not very apt and but little inclined to fathom questions of paternity, and not attaching any importance to the matter, had never understood exactly of which of the two Fauchelevents Cosette was the daughter. They said what was wanted and they said it with zeal. An acte de notoriete was drawn up. Cosette became in the eyes of the law, Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both father and mother being dead. Jean Valjean so arranged it that he was appointed, under the name of Fauchelevent, as Cosette's guardian, with M. Gillenormand as supervising guardian over him. 由于他当过市长，他解决了一个为难的问题，只有一个人知道其中奥秘，这就是有关珂赛特的身分问题。直截了当地说出她的出身，谁知道呀！有可能破坏婚事。他为珂赛特排除了一切困难。他把她安排成一个父母双亡的孩子，这样才可以不冒风险。珂赛特是一个孤儿；珂赛特不是他的女儿，而是另一个割风的女儿。割风兄弟俩在小比克布斯做过园丁。派人到修道院去过了，调查后得到很多最好的情况，最值得尊敬的见证；善良的修女们不太懂也不喜欢去追究别人父系方面的问题，她们看不出其中有什么花招，因此始终也没搞清楚小珂赛特究竟是哪一个割风的女儿。她们说了别人需要她们说的话，并且语气诚恳。一个身分证明书已经办妥。根据法律珂赛特就是欧福拉吉·割风小姐了。她被宣称父母双亡。冉阿让以割风的名字，被指定为珂赛特的保护人，又加上吉诺曼先生，这是保护人的代理人。 As for the five hundred and eighty thousand francs, they constituted a legacy bequeathed to Cosette by a dead person, who desired to remain unknown. The original legacy had consisted of five hundred and ninety-four thousand francs; but ten thousand francs had been expended on the education of Mademoiselle Euphrasie, five thousand francs of that amount having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of a third party, was to be turned over to Cosette at her majority, or at the date of her marriage. This, taken as a whole, was very acceptable, as the reader will perceive, especially when the sum due was half a million. There were some peculiarities here and there, it is true, but they were not noticed; one of the interested parties had his eyes blindfolded by love, the others by the six hundred thousand francs. 至于那五十八万四千法郎，是一个不愿具名的人留给珂赛特的遗产。原来的数字是五十九万四千法郎，珂赛特的教育费花去了一万法郎，其中五千法郎付给了修女院。这笔遗产交给第三者保管，应在珂赛特成年后或结婚时交还给她。看来这一切都是合情合理的，尤其加上这五十多万的遗产。但其中也不免有些漏洞，但别人觉察不到。有一个与此有利害关系的人被爱情蒙住了眼睛，其他的人也被六十万法郎蒙蔽过去了。 Cosette learned that she was not the daughter of that old man whom she had so long called father. He was merely a kinsman; another Fauchelevent was her real father. At any other time this would have broken her heart. But at the ineffable moment which she was then passing through, it cast but a slight shadow, a faint cloud, and she was so full of joy that the cloud did not last long. She had Marius. The young man arrived, the old man was effaced; such is life. 珂赛特知道了被她叫了很久“父亲”的老人不是她的亲父，而只是一个亲戚；另一个割风才是她的父亲。如果不是此时此刻，她会感到难过的。但目前她在这难以形容的良辰美景中，这不过是点阴影，一点抑郁而已，但她的心情是那么欢快，以致乌云不久就消散了。她有了马吕斯。年轻的男子来到后，那老人就销声匿迹了。人生就是这么回事。 And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas around her; every being who has had a mysterious childhood is always prepared for certain renunciations. 还有，珂赛特多年来，习惯看到她四周有些难解的谜；人凡是经历过这种神秘的幼年时期，对某些事就常常不去深究了。 
她仍然称呼冉阿让为“父亲”。 Cosette, happy as the angels, was enthusiastic over Father Gillenormand. It is true that he overwhelmed her with gallant compliments and presents. While Jean Valjean was building up for Cosette a normal situation in society and an unassailable status, M. Gillenormand was superintending the basket of wedding gifts. Nothing so amused him as being magnificent. He had given to Cosette a robe of Binche guipure which had descended to him from his own grandmother. 珂赛特心旷神怡，她崇拜吉诺曼老爷爷。他确实向她说了不少赞扬的话，并送给她无数礼物。当冉阿让在替珂赛特创造一个社会上正常的地位和一笔无可指摘的财富时，吉诺曼先生在为她的结婚礼品篮子①作准备。没有比追求豪华更使他起劲的事了。他送了珂赛特一件班希②特产的花边衣服，这是他的亲祖母传给他的。“这种式样又时兴了，”” ①新郎送新娘的一篮礼物。 ②班希（Binche），让利时一个著名产花边的城市。 "These fashions come up again," said he, "ancient things are the rage, and the young women of my old age dress like the old women of my childhood." 他说，“老古董又风行一时了，在我年老时的少妇穿得象我幼年时的老奶奶一样。 
他翻着那多年没打开过的科罗曼德尔漆的凸肚式名贵五斗柜。“让这些老古董招供吧，”他说，“看看它们肚里有些什么东西。”他乱翻着那些鼓肚的抽屉，里面塞满了他的妻子、他所有的情妇和上辈的服装。中国花缎、大马士革锦缎、中国丝绸、画了花的绉绸。用火烤过的浮毛的图尔料子衣服、用可以下水洗的金线绣的手帕、几块没有正反面的王妃绸①、热那亚和阿朗松的挑花、老式的金银首饰、以细巧的战争画作装饰的象牙糖果盒、装饰品、缎带，他把所有一切都送给了珂赛特。珂赛特惊喜交集，对马吕斯情深似海，对吉诺曼先生感恩不尽，梦想着一个用绸缎和丝绒交织起来的无比的幸福。她觉得自己的结婚礼品篮子好象被天使托着，她的心好象长着马林花边的翅膀，在蔚蓝的天空里翱翔。 ①在法国里昂制造的一种名贵丝绸。 The intoxication of the lovers was only equalled, as we have already said, by the ecstasy of the grandfather. A sort of flourish of trumpets went on in the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. 这对情人如痴如醉，我们已经提到，只有外祖父的狂喜才能与之相比。在受难修女街好象有人吹奏着欢庆的铜管乐。 Every morning, a fresh offering of bric-a-brac from the grandfather to Cosette. All possible knickknacks glittered around her. 每天清晨外祖父都送来一些古董给珂赛特。她四周是应有尽有的衬裙花边，就象盛开的花朵一样。 One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his bliss, said, apropos of I know not what incident: 有一天不知从什么话题引起的，很喜欢在幸福中谈论严肃问题的马吕斯说道： 
“那些革命时期的人物是如此伟大，他们好象已有好几个世纪的威望，象卡托和伏西翁，他们两人都是自古以来受人凭吊的。” "Moire antique!" exclaimed the old gentleman. "Thanks, Marius. That is precisely the idea of which I was in search." “古锦①！”吉诺曼高声说，“谢谢，马吕斯，这正是我要找的东西。” And on the following day, a magnificent dress of tea-rose colored moire antique was added to Cosette's wedding presents. 第二天，在珂赛特的结婚礼品篮子里又增加了一件美丽的茶色古锦衣服。 From these fripperies, the grandfather extracted a bit of wisdom. 外祖父在这堆衣着上作出了他的智慧的结论： "Love is all very well; but there must be something else to go with it. The useless must be mingled with happiness. Happiness is only the necessary. Season that enormously with the superfluous for me. A palace and her heart. Her heart and the Louvre. Her heart and the grand waterworks of Versailles. Give me my shepherdess and try to make her a duchess. Fetch me Phyllis crowned with corn-flowers, and add a hundred thousand francs income. Open for me a bucolic perspective as far as you can see, beneath a marble colonnade. I consent to the bucolic and also to the fairy spectacle of marble and gold. Dry happiness resembles dry bread. One eats, but one does not dine. I want the superfluous, the useless, the extravagant, excess, that which serves no purpose. I remember to have seen, in the Cathedral of Strasburg, a clock, as tall as a three-story house which marked the hours, which had the kindness to indicate the hour, but which had not the air of being made for that; and which, after having struck midday, or midnight,- midday, the hour of the sun, or midnight, the hour of love,-- or any other hour that you like, gave you the moon and the stars, the earth and the sea, birds and fishes, Phoebus and Phoebe, and a host of things which emerged from a niche, and the twelve apostles, and the Emperor Charles the Fifth, and Eponine, and Sabinus, and a throng of little gilded goodmen, who played on the trumpet to boot. Without reckoning delicious chimes which it sprinkled through the air, on every occasion, without any one's knowing why. Is a petty bald clock-face which merely tells the hour equal to that? For my part, I am of the opinion of the big clock of Strasburg, and I prefer it to the cuckoo clock from the Black Forest." “爱情，这当然很好，但必须有这些东西作陪衬。幸福需要一些无用的东西。幸福，这仅仅是必需品。要用许多奢侈品来调味。要一个宫殿来迎接爱情，爱情少不了卢浮宫。有了她的爱情，还需要凡尔赛的喷泉。把牧羊女给我，我尽力使她成为公爵夫人。把戴着矢车菊花冠的费莉②带来，给她加上十万利弗的年金。在大理石的柱廊下向我展现出一望无际的田园风光。我赞成牧人的田舍，同时也赞美大理石和金色的仙界。干巴巴的幸福就象吃干面包，吃是吃了，但不是筵席。我要多余的和不是必需品的东西，我要荒诞的、过分的、毫无用处的东西。我记得在斯特拉斯堡的教堂中见过一座有四层楼高的报时钟，它屈尊报时，但它不象是为此而造的，它在报了午时或午夜以后（中午是太阳的时辰，午夜是爱情的时辰），或是报了其他任何一个钟点以后，还为你现出月亮和星星、大地和海洋、鸟和鱼、福玻斯③和菲贝④，从一个窝里钻出无数的玩意儿：有十二个门徒⑤，还有查理五世皇帝⑥，还有爱波妮⑦和沙别纽斯，除此之外还有很多镀金的小人儿在吹着喇叭。还不算那些随时播送出来的、不知为什么发出的响彻云霄的优美钟乐。一个平凡的光秃秃的只能报时的钟能和它相提并论吗？我赞赏斯特拉斯堡的大钟远远胜过仿黑森林杜鹃叫声的报时小钟。”���� ②费莉（Philis），诗歌中美丽贫穷的牧羊女。 ③福玻斯（Phébus），希腊神话中太阳神阿波罗的别名。 ④菲贝（Phébé），原是月神，后与希腊神话中的阿耳忒弥斯相混，成了阿尔忒弥斯的别名。 ⑤十二个门徒，指耶稣的十二个门徒。 ⑦爱波妮（Eponine），高卢女英雄，沙别纽斯之妻，她进行了使高卢人民从罗马的压迫下解放出来的斗争，失败后被杀。 M. Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all the fripperies of the eighteenth century passed pell-mell through his dithyrambs. 吉诺曼先生对婚礼发表了特别荒唐的谬论，于是十八世纪的妓女都在他的颂歌中杂乱无章地出现了。 "You are ignorant of the art of festivals. You do not know how to organize a day of enjoyment in this age," he exclaimed. "Your nineteenth century is weak. It lacks excess. It ignores the rich, it ignores the noble. In everything it is clean-shaven. Your third estate is insipid, colorless, odorless, and shapeless. The dreams of your bourgeois who set up, as they express it: a pretty boudoir freshly decorated, violet, ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! The Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying Mademoiselle Clutch-penny. Sumptuousness and splendor. A louis d'or has been stuck to a candle. There's the epoch for you. My demand is that I may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all was lost, from the day when I beheld the Duc de Rohan, Prince de Leon, Duc de Chabot, Duc de Montbazon, Marquis de Sonbise, Vicomte de Thouars, peer of France, go to Longchamps in a tapecu! That has borne its fruits. In this century, men attend to business, they gamble on 'Change, they win money, they are stingy. People take care of their surfaces and varnish them; every one is dressed as though just out of a band-box, washed, soaped, scraped, shaved, combed, waked, smoothed, rubbed, brushed, cleaned on the outside, irreproachable, polished as a pebble, discreet, neat, and at the same time, death of my life, in the depths of their consciences they have dung-heaps and cesspools that are enough to make a cow-herd who blows his nose in his fingers, recoil. I grant to this age the device: `Dirty Cleanliness.' Don't be vexed, Marius, give me permission to speak; I say no evil of the people as you see, I am always harping on your people, but do look favorably on my dealing a bit of a slap to the bourgeoisie. I belong to it. He who loves well lashes well. Thereupon, I say plainly, that now-a-days people marry, but that they no longer know how to marry. Ah! It is true, I regret the grace of the ancient manners. I regret everything about them, their elegance, their chivalry, those courteous and delicate ways, that joyous luxury which every one possessed, music forming part of the wedding, a symphony above stairs, a beating of drums below stairs, the dances, the joyous faces round the table, the fine-spun gallant compliments, the songs, the fireworks, the frank laughter, the devil's own row, the huge knots of ribbon. I regret the bride's garter. The bride's garter is cousin to the girdle of Venus. On what does the war of Troy turn? On Helen's garter, parbleu! Why did they fight, why did Diomed the divine break over the head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? Why did Achilles and Hector hew each other up with vast blows of their lances? Because Helen allowed Paris to take her garter. With Cosette's garter, Homer would construct the Iliad. He would put in his poem, a loquacious old fellow, like me, and he would call him Nestor. My friends, in bygone days, in those amiable days of yore, people married wisely; they had a good contract, and then they had a good carouse. As soon as Cujas had taken his departure, Gamacho entered. But, in sooth! The stomach is an agreeable beast which demands its due, and which wants to have its wedding also. People supped well, and had at table a beautiful neighbor without a guimpe so that her throat was only moderately concealed. Oh! The large laughing mouths, and how gay we were in those days! Youth was a bouquet; every young man terminated in a branch of lilacs or a tuft of roses; whether he was a shepherd or a warrior; and if, by chance, one was a captain of dragoons, one found means to call oneself Florian. People thought much of looking well. They embroidered and tinted themselves. A bourgeois had the air of a flower, a Marquis had the air of a precious stone. People had no straps to their boots, they had no boots. They were spruce, shining, waved, lustrous, fluttering, dainty, coquettish, which did not at all prevent their wearing swords by their sides. The humming-bird has beak and claws. That was the day of the Galland Indies. One of the sides of that century was delicate, the other was magnificent; and by the green cabbages! People amused themselves. To-day, people are serious. The bourgeois is avaricious, the bourgeoise is a prude; your century is unfortunate. People would drive away the Graces as being too low in the neck. Alas!Beauty is concealed as though it were ugliness. Since the revolution, everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian. It is necessary to be majestic. People would be greatly annoyed if they did not carry their chins in their cravats. The ideal of an urchin of twenty when he marries, is to resemble M. Royer-Collard. And do you know what one arrives at with that majesty? At being petty. Learn this: joy is not only joyous; it is great. But be in love gayly then, what the deuce! Marry, when you marry, with fever and giddiness, and tumult, and the uproar of happiness! Be grave in church, well and good. But, as soon as the mass is finished, sarpejou! You must make a dream whirl around the bride. A marriage should be royal and chimerical; it should promenade its ceremony from the cathedral of Rheims to the pagoda of Chanteloup. I have a horror of a paltry wedding. Ventregoulette! Be in Olympus for that one day, at least. Be one of the gods. Ah! People might be sylphs. Games and Laughter, argiraspides; they are stupids. My friends, every recently made bridegroom ought to be Prince Aldobrandini. Profit by that unique minute in life to soar away to the empyrean with the swans and the eagles, even if you do have to fall back on the morrow into the bourgeoisie of the frogs. Don't economize on the nuptials, do not prune them of their splendors; don't scrimp on the day when you beam. The wedding is not the housekeeping. Oh! If I were to carry out my fancy, it would be gallant, violins would be heard under the trees. Here is my programme: sky-blue and silver. I would mingle with the festival the rural divinities, I would convoke the Dryads and the Nereids. The nuptials of Amphitrite, a rosy cloud, nymphs with well dressed locks and entirely naked, an Academician offering quatrains to the goddess, a chariot drawn by marine monsters. “你们不懂得过节的那套方法。在这个时代你们不会过一天欢乐的日子，”他大声说，“你们的十九世纪萎靡不振。它过分节制，它不懂得富裕，它不懂得高贵。在各方面它都剃成光秃秃的。你们的第三等级①毫无意义，平淡、无味，是畸形的。你们的这些成家的资产阶级妇女的梦想，用她们的话来说就是布置一个漂亮的有着最新装饰的贵妇人的小客厅，紫色的木器和碎花棉布。让开！让开！吝啬鬼娶个守财奴。富丽又堂皇的场面！蜡烛上贴着个金路易。这个时代就是这样。我恨不能逃到比沙马特族②住地更远的地方去。啊！从一七八七年，我便预告一切都要完了，那时我见到了也是莱翁亲王的罗安公爵、夏博公爵、蒙巴松公爵、苏比斯侯爵、都阿尔子爵和法国的大臣们坐着二轮马车到隆桑③去！这些都产生了后果。本世纪大家做买卖，在交易所投机，大发其财，都变成了吝啬鬼。他们修饰自己，但只讲究外表；穿得笔挺，洗得干干净净，用上肥皂，刮干净，剃干净，梳头，上蜡，又光又滑，擦呀，刷呀，外表整洁，无懈可击，光滑得象石子，态度审慎，讲究，同时，我以我的情妇的贞洁发誓，他们的内心是粪堆和污水坑，脏得可以把一个用手擤鼻涕的放牛人吓得退避三舍。对这个时代，我献上这样一句题词：肮脏的清洁。马吕斯，你不要见怪，请允许我发言。我对你的老百姓没有毁谤过，这你是知道的，我经常把你的老百姓挂在嘴上，但请让我对资产阶级稍稍地口出不逊。我也是其中的一个。打是亲，骂是爱。关于这一点我就干脆挑明了，今天人们举行婚礼，都不知道该怎么举行。啊！说真话，我为失去过去优雅的习俗感到惋惜，我对失去的一切感到惋惜。那种人人都有的斯文的举止，骑士的侠义，殷勤而和蔼的风度，使人欢乐的豪华，音乐是婚礼的一个内容，管弦乐在楼上，锣鼓在楼下，舞会，酒席宴上欢乐的脸，过分琢磨的对女人的恭维话，唱歌，焰火，尽情欢笑，五花八门，应有尽有，许多大的缎带结。我还常想起新娘的袜带。新娘的袜带和维纳斯的腰带是表姊妹。特洛伊战争是为了什么？当然是为了海伦的袜带呀！为什么要发起战争？为什么神圣的狄俄墨得斯把眉里奥纳巨大的青铜头盔戳上十个洞？为什么阿喀琉斯和赫克托尔互相持矛刺杀？正因为海伦让帕里斯拿走了她的袜带。荷马本可为珂赛特的袜带写下《伊利亚特》。他将把一个象我这样的罗嗦老头儿写进他的诗篇，可以给他起内斯托这个名字。朋友们，过去，在那可爱的过去，人们办喜事很讲究；先好好写下一份婚书，接着再请一顿丰盛的筵席。居雅斯④一出门，加马什⑤就进门，可是，当然呀！因为胃是一只有趣的畜生，它要它分内的东西，喜事也得有它的份。酒席很丰盛，在酒席宴上，身旁坐着一个不戴修女头巾的美女，她只略略遮住一点胸部！哦！大家张口大笑，那个时代人们真快活！那时青春是一束花，每个青年手里都拿着一枝丁香或一束玫瑰，即使是战士，也会成为牧羊人！如果碰上你是龙骑兵上尉，你也设法取名弗罗利昂⑥。每个人都在使自己变得漂亮，都在修饰自己，他们一身紫红。一个资产阶级的人象一朵花，一个侯爵如同一块宝石。没有人穿扣襻鞋，没有人穿长靴，人人漂漂亮亮，抹上油，发亮，穿着金褐色的衣服，翩翩起舞，优美而爱打扮，但腰间仍不妨挂着剑，蜂鸟有喙有爪，那是《高雅的印度》⑦的时代。那个世纪既是举止文雅，又讲究豪华。我向老天发誓！那时大家真玩得痛快。今天，大家如此严肃。富人个个吝啬，女的都是假正经；你们这个世纪很不幸。你们可以因美神过于袒胸露臂而把她们驱逐。唉！你们把美貌当丑八怪一样遮掩起来。自从革命以来，每个人都穿长裤子，连舞女也不例外，一个跳滑稽舞的女演员也得很严肃；你们成对跳的轻快舞蹈也是一本正经的。得很威严才是，态度不庄重大家就会感到遗憾了。一个举行婚礼的二十岁青年的理想就是要象罗耶－科拉尔先生⑧那样。你可知道这种威严的结果是怎样的？它使人渺小。你们要懂得这一点：欢乐并不纯粹是愉快，它是伟大的。因此欢乐地恋爱吧，见鬼！你们结婚时得热烈，要头晕目眩、喧嚣沸腾，得有幸福的嘈杂声！在教堂中应当庄严，这我同意，但弥撒一结束，管他的！我们就要在新娘四周象梦幻似的旋转舞蹈了。一个婚礼应该既堂皇又充满幻想的！队伍应该从兰斯教堂延续到香德路宝塔。我讨厌差劲的婚礼。见鬼！至少这一天要置身于天国。当天神吧！啊！你们可以变成地仙、娱乐的神、欢笑的神、财神；你们都是小妖精！朋友们，新郎都该是阿陀勃朗第尼⑨王子。尽情来享受一生中仅有的千金一刻，去和天鹅鹫鹰一同上九天去遨游，哪怕第二天又掉回青蛙式的资产阶级的生活中来。不要在婚礼上节省开支，不要有损它的光彩；不要在你们容光焕发的时刻吝惜金钱。结婚不是平常过日子。啊！如果照我的兴致去办，那就妙不可言了。我们可以在林中听到小提琴的演奏。我的节目应是天蓝色和银光闪闪的。在这个节日里我要把田野之神都请来；我要请来山林女神和海里仙女。婚礼要象安菲特里特⑩那样，是一片粉红色的彩云，其中有头发梳得漂漂亮亮的裸体的山林水泽仙女，一个院士向女神念着四行颂诗，海兽正拖着一辆双轮车前进。 ①法国在一七八九年大革命前，全国分为三个等级，第一等级是贵族，第二等级是僧侣，其他人属于第三等级。 ③隆桑（Longchamp），巴黎附近的女修道院，因屡次出现丑闻，一七九○年停办。 ④居雅斯（Cujas，1522-1590），法国著名法律家。 ⑤加马什（gamache），西班牙名著《堂吉诃德》中人物，以丰盛的婚礼筵席著称。 ⑥弗罗利昂（Florian，1755-1794），法国作家，善讽刺。 ⑧罗耶－科拉尔（Royer－Collard，1763-1845），法国哲学家。 ⑨阿陀勃朗第尼（Aldobrandini，1572-1621），佛罗伦萨的红衣主教，在他的别墅里发现了罗马开国时期的古壁画，名为《阿陀勃朗第尼的婚礼》。 ⑩安菲特里特（Amphitrite），希腊神话中海之女神，海神波塞冬的妻子。 "Triton trotted on before, and drew from his conch-shell sounds so ravishing that he delighted everyone!" 特里同⑾在前面快步走，他用海螺吹出妙音，闻者为之出神！ --there's a festive programme, there's a good one, or else I know nothing of such matters, deuce take it!" 这才是婚礼的节目，要不然，我就算是个外行，见鬼去吧！” While the grandfather, in full lyrical effusion, was listening to himself, Cosette and Marius grew intoxicated as they gazed freely at each other. 当外祖父诗兴勃勃地自说自听时，珂赛特和马吕斯脉脉含情互相随意凝视着。 Aunt Gillenormand surveyed all this with her imperturbable placidity. Within the last five or six months she had experienced a certain amount of emotions. Marius returned, Marius brought back bleeding, Marius brought back from a barricade, Marius dead, then living, Marius reconciled, Marius betrothed, Marius wedding a poor girl, Marius wedding a millionairess. The six hundred thousand francs had been her last surprise. Then, her indifference of a girl taking her first communion returned to her. She went regularly to service, told her beads, read her euchology, mumbled Aves in one corner of the house, while I love you was being whispered in the other, and she beheld Marius and Cosette in a vague way, like two shadows. The shadow was herself. 吉诺曼姨妈平静而沉着地望着这一切。五六个月以来她经受了不少刺激：马吕斯回来了，马吕斯流着血被送回来了，马吕斯从街垒中被送回来了，马吕斯死了，后来又活了过来，马吕斯言归于好了，马吕斯订了婚，马吕斯要和一个贫穷的姑娘结婚，马吕斯要和一个非常富有的姑娘结婚。那六十万法郎是最后一件使她惊讶的事。接着她又恢复了那种初次受圣礼者对世情的淡漠感。她按时去做礼拜，拨她的念珠，读她的祈祷书，在屋子的一角轻声念着《圣母颂》，那时在另一个角落里有人轻声说着“我爱你”①。她模模糊糊看到的马吕斯和珂赛特好象两个影子。其实影子是她自己。 ①“我爱你”，原文为英文I love you。 
有一种苦修的呆滞状态，心灵被麻痹所中和，因而对我们所谓的生活一无所知，除开地震和灾祸之外，没有普通人的任何感觉，既没有欢乐的，也没有痛苦的。“这种虔信，”吉诺曼老爹对女儿说，“象头部感冒。你对生活没有一点嗅觉。闻不到臭味，但也闻不到香味。” Moreover, the six hundred thousand francs had settled the elderly spinster's indecision. Her father had acquired the habit of taking her so little into account, that he had not consulted her in the matter of consent to Marius' marriage. He had acted impetuously, according to his wont, having, a despot-turned slave, but a single thought,--to satisfy Marius. As for the aunt,--it had not even occurred to him that the aunt existed, and that she could have an opinion of her own, and, sheep as she was, this had vexed her. Somewhat resentful in her inmost soul, but impassible externally, she had said to herself: "My father has settled the question of the marriage without reference to me; I shall settle the question of the inheritance without consulting him." She was rich, in fact, and her father was not. She had reserved her decision on this point. It is probable that, had the match been a poor one, she would have left him poor. "So much the worse for my nephew! He is wedding a beggar, let him be a beggar himself!" But Cosette's half-million pleased the aunt, and altered her inward situation so far as this pair of lovers were concerned. One owes some consideration to six hundred thousand francs, and it was evident that she could not do otherwise than leave her fortune to these young people, since they did not need it. 此外，那六十万法郎已使老处女的犹豫心情一扫而光了。她的父亲平时一贯不重视她，所以在马吕斯的婚事上也没去征求她的意见。他照自己的想法，单凭激情行事，暴君已变为奴仆，唯一的心愿就是使马吕斯满足。至于姨妈，她的存在，她可能有什么意见，他甚至没有想到过，她再温顺，但这件事的确得罪了她。她的内心深处虽然稍有反感，但表面上沉着无事。她暗想：“我的父亲决定婚事不和我商量，所以我解决我的财产继承问题时也不去问他。”她确是富有的，而父亲则不是。她因而在这问题上保留了自己的决定权。如果这桩亲事是贫穷的结合，她可能就让他们去过贫穷的日子了。外甥先生娶一个女化子，他也当化子去吧。但珂赛特有六十万法郎这件事使姨妈很高兴，她对这对情人的看法有了改变。六十万法郎是应该重视的，显然，她只能把自己的财产留给这两个青年了，原因是他们并不缺这笔财产。 It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather-- M. Gillenormand insisted on resigning to them his chamber, the finest in the house. "That will make me young again," he said. "It's an old plan of mine. I have always entertained the idea of having a wedding in my chamber." 新婚夫妇已安排好要住在外祖父家中。吉诺曼先生一定要把家里最漂亮的他的寝室让出来。“这样就使我年轻了，”他说，“这是早就有的打算。因我一直有着在我房里举行婚礼的念头。” He furnished this chamber with a multitude of elegant trifles. He had the ceiling and walls hung with an extraordinary stuff, which he had by him in the piece, and which he believed to have emanated from Utrecht with a buttercup-colored satin ground, covered with velvet auricula blossoms.--"It was with that stuff," said he, "that the bed of the Duchesse d'Anville at la Roche-Guyon was draped."-- On the chimney-piece, he set a little figure in Saxe porcelain, carrying a muff against her nude stomach. 他用很多高雅的古玩布置新房，他用一匹他认为是乌德勒支的特别名贵的料子来装饰墙和天花板，料子是缎底上有着金毛莨花以及起绒的莲香花。他说：“昂维尔公爵夫人就是用这种料子在洛许格荣做她的床罩的。”他在壁炉上摆了一个萨克森的彩色瓷人，她肚子裸露着，捧着一个手笼。 M. Gillenormand's library became the lawyer's study, which Marius needed; a study, it will be remembered, being required by the council of the order. 吉诺曼先生的藏书室成了马吕斯需要的律师办公室。我们记得，办公室是治安会议规定必须要有的。 | |
