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稍带稚气纯真的埃米琳，对卡西阴沉心情感到有些害怕。她似乎惶惑不解，所以没有答话，只是握住卡西的手，轻轻抚摸着。 "Don't!" said Cassy, trying to draw it away; "you'll get me to loving you; and I never mean to love anything, again!"" 别这样！"卡西想要抽回手来，"你要这样，我会喜爱上你的，可我决心永远不再喜爱什么东西了！" "Poor Cassy!" said Emmeline, "don't feel so! If the Lord gives us liberty, perhaps he'll give you back your daughter; at any rate, I'll be like a daughter to you. I know I'll never see my poor old mother again! I shall love you, Cassy, whether you love me or not!"" 可怜的卡西！"埃米琳说，"千万别这样想了！如果救主给我们自由，也许会把你女儿还给你的。起码来说，我就跟女儿一样。我明白，我再也见不着妈妈了！不管你爱不爱我，卡西，我都爱你！" The gentle, child-like spirit conquered. Cassy sat down by her, put her arm round her neck, stroked her soft, brown hair; and Emmeline then wondered at the beauty of her magnificent eyes, now soft with tears. 温柔的、孩子般的情绪感染了卡西。她坐在埃米琳身旁，搂着她的脖子，抚弄着她那棕色的柔发。埃米琳望着那双此刻噙着泪水的柔和目光，惊异于她的眼睛的美丽。 "O, Em!" said Cassy, "I've hungered for my children, and thirsted for them, and my eyes fail with longing for them! Here! here!" she said, striking her breast, "it's all desolate, all empty! If God would give me back my children, then I could pray."" 哦，艾姆，"卡西说，"我切盼着自己的孩子，如饥似渴地切盼着，盼得连眼力都不行了！你瞧，这里！"她拍打着胸脯说，"这里凄凄凉凉，空空落落的！假使上帝把孩子还给我，那我就能向上帝祈祷了。" 
你一定要信奉他，卡西，"埃米琳说，"他是我们的天父啊！" "His wrath is upon us," said Cassy; "he has turned away in anger."" 可他对我们怒气冲冲，"卡西说，"气得离开了我们。" "No, Cassy! He will be good to us! Let us hope in Him," said Emmeline,--"I always have had hope."" 没有，卡西！他会对我们慈悲的！我们把希望寄托在他身上吧，"埃米琳说，"我总是怀着希望的。" The hunt was long, animated, and thorough, but unsuccessful; and, with grave, ironic exultation, Cassy looked down on Legree, as, weary and dispirited, he alighted from his horse. 搜捕持续了很长时问。热闹而彻底，然而一无所获。烈格雷困顿沮丧，翻身下了马。卡西带着极为讥讽和欢欣的神情，往下望着他。 "Now, Quimbo," said Legree, as he stretched himself down in the sitting-room, "you jest go and walk that Tom up here, right away! The old cuss is at the bottom of this yer whole matter; and I'll have it out of his old black hide, or I'll know the reason why!"" 喂，昆博，"烈格雷四仰八叉地躺在起居室里，说，"你给把那个汤姆押到这里来，赶快！这个老不死的，是这整个事儿的后台。我要在这张老黑皮身上，知道事情的底细，或者知道这事的原委。" 
桑博和昆博，虽然彼此相互忌恨，但对汤姆的痛恨却都到了刻骨铭心的地步，因此，在这件事情上，两人可谓心心相印。想当初，烈格雷对他们说过，购买汤姆，是为了在自己出门的时候叫他当总监工，这就惹得两人十分恼怒。而后，眼看汤姆受到主子的白眼和反感，这种恼怒，在两人奴颜婢膝的心性中，就更是有增无减。因此，昆博信誓旦旦地迈步离开，去执行命令。 Tom heard the message with a forewarning heart; for he knew all the plan of the fugitives' escape, and the place of their present concealment;--he knew the deadly character of the man he had to deal with, and his despotic power. But he felt strong in God to meet death, rather than betray the helpless. 汤姆怀着某种预感，听到了传唤。因为，他了解逃亡者的全部逃跑计划，以及她们目前藏身的地方，也了解他要对付的这个人，生性可怕，握着专横的大权。然而，他对上帝怀着强烈信念，宁肯丧命，也绝不出卖无依无助的人们。 He sat his basket down by the row, and, looking up, said, "Into thy hands I commend my spirit! Thou hast redeemed me, oh Lord God of truth!" and then quietly yielded himself to the rough, brutal grasp with which Quimbo seized him. 他把篮子放在田垅旁边，仰望上苍，说："我把灵魂荐于你手中！你救赎了我，哦，真理的上帝救主！"接着，便驯顺地让昆博粗鲁残暴地抓住了他。 "Ay, ay!" said the giant, as he dragged him along; ye'll cotch it, now! I'll boun' Mas'r's back 's up _high!_ No sneaking out, now! Tell ye, ye'll get it, and no mistake! See how ye'll look, now, helpin' Mas'r's niggers to run away! See what ye'll get!"" 嗨，嗨，"大块头的昆博一面拖着他走，一面说，"这一下你算碰到枪眼上了！我敢说，老爷火气正大！你怎么也跑不掉了，这会儿！告你说，你逃不脱了，没错！还帮着老爷的黑鬼子们逃跑，看你还有脸见老爷！会把你怎么样，咱就等着瞧吧！" The savage words none of them reached that ear!--a higher voice there was saying, "Fear not them that kill the body, and, after that, have no more that they can do." Nerve and bone of that poor man's body vibrated to those words, as if touched by the finger of God; and he felt the strength of a thousand souls in one. As he passed along, the trees. and bushes, the huts of his servitude, the whole scene of his degradation, seemed to whirl by him as the landscape by the rushing ear. His soul throbbed,--his home was in sight,--and the hour of release seemed at hand. 这些粗鲁话，汤姆一句也没有听到耳朵里去！相反，一个更高的声音在说："那杀身以后，不能再作什么，不要怕他们。"这个可怜的人身上的神经和骨肉，都随着这些话的震颤，宛若受到了上帝手指的触摸，觉得千万条灵魂都集于一身。他沿路走着，旁边的花木树丛和奴隶们的小屋，以及他受到屈辱的整个景象，都打着旋儿，一阵风从他身旁掠过去，仿佛田野景色掠过疾驶而去的车子。他的心在祈祷，天国之家已经在望，解脱的时刻近在手边了。 
好哇，汤姆！"烈格雷走上前来，狠劲抓住汤姆外套的领子，在一阵无法释然的狂怒中，咬牙切齿地说，"我非宰了你不行，明白不？" "It's very likely, Mas'r," said Tom, calmly." 这很有可能，老爷。"汤姆语气十分平静。 "I _have_," said Legree, with a grim, terrible calmness, "_done--just--that--thing_, Tom, unless you'll tell me what you know about these yer gals!"" 我刚刚--下了--决心，汤姆，"烈格雷凶狠而又冷酷得叫人可怕，"除非你把那两个女人的事告诉我！" Tom stood silent. 汤姆默然不语地站在那里。 "D'ye hear?" said Legree, stamping, with a roar like that of an incensed lion. "Speak!"" 聋了吗？"烈格雷跺着脚，像一头激怒的狮子咆哮起来，"给我说！" 
我没什么可说的，老爷。"汤姆语气缓慢而镇定，说话慢慢吞吞。 "Do you dare to tell me, ye old black Christian, ye don't _know_?" said Legree." 你敢给我说不晓得，你这个黑皮老基督徒？"烈格雷说。 Tom was silent. 汤姆默不作声。 "Speak!" thundered Legree, striking him furiously. Do you know anything?"" 说呀！"烈格雷的声音如雷电霹雳，一面又狂怒地打着汤姆，"晓不晓得？" "I know, Mas'r; but I can't tell anything. _I can die!_"" 我晓得，老爷，可是什么也不能说出来。让我死了吧！" 
烈格雷长长地喘了一口气，强压着怒火，抓住汤姆胳膊，把脸几乎贴在汤姆脸上，用令人恐怖的声音说："你给我听清了，汤姆！你当是上一回我放过了你，我说话就算数啦。可这一回，我铁了心，不管赔多少钱。你一直拗着我，眼下我要治服你，再不然就宰了你！不是这样，就是那样。我要数数你身上有多少滴血，让你的血一滴滴往外流，流到你认输！" Tom looked up to his master, and answered, "Mas'r, if you was sick, or in trouble, or dying, and I could save ye, I'd _give_ ye my heart's blood; and, if taking every drop of blood in this poor old body would save your precious soul, I'd give 'em freely, as the Lord gave his for me. O, Mas'r! don't bring this great sin on your soul! It will hurt you more than 't will me! Do the worst you can, my troubles'll be over soon; but, if ye don't repent, yours won't _never_ end!" 汤姆抬头望着主子，说："老爷，要是你生病有灾或是快死了，我愿意救你一命，把自己心里的血都给你。要是我这个可怜老头子的滴滴鲜血，能够拯救你宝贵的灵魂，我愿在所不惜，把滴滴鲜血都奉献出来，正像救主把自己的血赐给我一样。哦，老爷！别把这个大罪带给你的灵魂吧！这与其说伤害了我，倒不如说伤害了你！你尽管作恶吧，我的苦难很快就会过去；可是，你要是不悔罪，你的苦难是没边没沿的！" Like a strange snatch of heavenly music, heard in the lull of a tempest, this burst of feeling made a moment's blank pause. Legree stood aghast, and looked at Tom; and there was such a silence, that the tick of the old clock could be heard, measuring, with silent touch, the last moments of mercy and probation to that hardened heart. 仿佛在暴风骤雨的间隙里，听到一段奇异的仙乐，这场情感的迸发，一时间使得人们哑口无言。烈格雷惊慌失色，呆望着汤姆。屋内鸦雀无声，连那只旧钟的嘀嗒声，也清晰可辨。它在默默地计算着对这颗铁石心肠发出慈悲的最后期限，以及考验时问。 It was but a moment. There was one hesitating pause,--one irresolute, relenting thrill,--and the spirit of evil came back, with seven-fold vehemence; and Legree, foaming with rage, smote his victim to the ground. 然而，这只是转瞬间的事情。烈格雷稍一踌躇，心里浮现出一丝游移不决的悔改冲动，接着，他那邪恶的念头，又以七倍的疯狂复现在心中。他暴跳如雷，一下子把汤姆打翻在地。
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