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哎，你是谁啊？"那人说道，"你不是希尔比家的仆人吗？" "My child!--this boy!--he'd sold him! There is his Mas'r," said she, pointing to the Kentucky shore. "O, Mr. Symmes, you've got a little boy!"" 我的孩子，这个小男孩，他被卖掉了！那边那个人是他的新主人，"她指着河岸对面说，"西姆斯先生，你也有个男孩啊！" "So I have," said the man, as he roughly, but kindly, drew her up the steep bank. "Besides, you're a right brave gal. I like grit, wherever I see it."" 我有的，"他很友善地把她用力拉上了陡峭的堤岸。"而且，你真是位大胆勇敢的姑娘。不管在哪儿，我看到勇敢的人就喜欢。" When they had gained the top of the bank, the man paused. 当他们爬到堤岸最高处时，这个男子停了下来。 "I'd be glad to do something for ye," said he; "but then there's nowhar I could take ye. The best I can do is to tell ye to go _thar_," said he, pointing to a large white house which stood by itself, off the main street of the village. "Go thar; they're kind folks. Thar's no kind o' danger but they'll help you,--they're up to all that sort o' thing."" 我很乐意为你做些什么，"他说，"但我没有地方带你去，我能做的只是告诉你一个你该去的地方，"他指着远处村子大街外一间孤零零的白色大房子说，"到那儿去吧，他们很善良，在那儿你不会有危险，他们会帮你，他们专做这方面的事。" 
上帝保佑你！"艾莉查诚挚地说。 "No 'casion, no 'casion in the world," said the man. "What I've done's of no 'count."" 算了，这没什么，"他说，"我做这件事算得了什么呢。" "And, oh, surely, sir, you won't tell any one!"" 哦，先生，你一定不会告诉别人吧！" "Go to thunder, gal! What do you take a feller for? In course not," said the man. "Come, now, go along like a likely, sensible gal, as you are. You've arnt your liberty, and you shall have it, for all me."" 姑娘，你这是说什么，你认为我是什么人？我当然不会。"那人说，"快，勇敢向前走吧，你很聪明，有胆量。既然你已得到了自由，你就有权拥有它。" The woman folded her child to her bosom, and walked firmly and swiftly away. The man stood and looked after her. 女人把孩子紧抱在胸口，迈着坚定而匆匆的步伐走了。那人站在那儿一直看着她的背影。 
希尔比或许认为这是一件难以容忍的事。但人该怎么做才算对呢？如果他在同样的情况下抓到了我的一个女仆，欢迎他以同样的方式回敬我。再说我真受不了黑人喘着粗气拼命逃跑，后面又有狗追赶的情形。何况我为什么要帮助别人抓逃跑的黑奴呢？" So spoke this poor, heathenish Kentuckian, who had not been instructed in his constitutional relations, and consequently was betrayed into acting in a sort of Christianized manner, which, if he had been better situated and more enlightened, he would not have been left to do. 这个可怜的异教徒肯塔基人自语着。他没怎么受过国家法律的教育，结果他以一种基督教精神糊里糊涂地背叛了自己的国家法律。如果他地位再高一点，受过更多教育的话，他一定会以截然相反的方式来对待艾莉查了。 Haley had stood a perfectly amazed spectator of the scene, till Eliza had disappeared up the bank, when he turned a blank, inquiring look on Sam and Andy. 赫利站在那儿，惊讶地看着这个场面，直到艾莉查消失不见，他才以一种询问的目光看着山姆和艾迪。 "That ar was a tolable fair stroke of business," said Sam." 这一手真是干净漂亮！"山姆说。 "The gal 's got seven devils in her, I believe!" said Haley. "How like a wildcat she jumped!"" 我想她定是魔鬼附体，"赫利说，"她蹦跳的样子就像只野猫。" 
希望老爷原谅我们，"山姆搔着头说，"我们不该走那条土路。你别以为我心里很好受。"他哑着喉咙笑起来。 "_You_ laugh!" said the trader, with a growl." 你还笑。"奴隶贩子怒吼道。 "Lord bless you, Mas'r, I couldn't help it now," said Sam, giving way to the long pent-up delight of his soul. "She looked so curi's, a leapin' and springin'--ice a crackin'--and only to hear her,--plump! ker chunk! ker splash! Spring! Lord! how she goes it!" and Sam and Andy laughed till the tears rolled down their cheeks." 我还是忍耐不住，上帝保佑你，老爷。"本来他一直努力掩饰他的兴奋，现在他干脆大笑起来，"她的样子真是太逗了，她蹦着，跳着，脚下的冰咯吱吱响；她扑通扑通地跳着。老天爷，没想到她还有这种本事！"山姆和艾迪高兴得眼泪都流了出来。 "I'll make ye laugh t' other side yer mouths!" said the trader, laying about their heads with his riding-whip." 我让你们还笑！"贩子说着便举起皮鞭朝他们打来。 Both ducked, and ran shouting up the bank, and were on their horses before he was up. 两人都躲开了皮鞭，大声叫喊着跑到堤岸上，当赫利赶上来时，他们已上马了。 
老爷再见，"山姆以严肃的神情说，"太太一定在担心杰瑞。赫利老爷已不用我们帮忙了。太太肯定不想听到我们说我们骑着杰瑞过了利兹桥。"说完，他开玩笑似地戳了一下艾迪的前胸，艾迪紧跟着他飞奔而去。晚风中隐约传来他们的欢笑声和喊声。 Eliza made her desperate retreat across the river just in the dusk of twilight. The gray mist of evening, rising slowly from the river, enveloped her as she disappeared up the bank, and the swollen current and floundering masses of ice presented a hopeless barrier between her and her pursuer. Haley therefore slowly and discontentedly returned to the little tavern, to ponder further what was to be done. The woman opened to him the door of a little parlor, covered with a rag carpet, where stood a table with a very shining black oil-cloth, sundry lank, high-backed wood chairs, with some plaster images in resplendent colors on the mantel-shelf, above a very dimly-smoking grate; a long hard-wood settle extended its uneasy length by the chimney, and here Haley sat him down to meditate on the instability of human hopes and happiness in general. 傍晚的时候，艾莉查终于逃过了俄亥俄河。傍晚河面上烟雾迷茫，逐渐吞没了她的身影，很快，她便消失在河的堤岸上。在她和追兵之间，湍急的河水和横七竖八的冰筏构成了一道难以逾越的天然路障。赫利非常气愤，慢慢地返回小客店。客店的女主人为他开了一间房间供他休息。地面上铺着一条破旧的地毯，一张桌子上铺着一张油得发亮的黑布，几张高背椅零乱地放在屋里，壁炉上是几尊色彩鲜艳的石膏雕像，炉子里还有零星的烟火，一张形状丑陋的硬板睡椅把它的身躯延伸到了壁炉的烟囱处。赫利坐在这张丑陋的木睡椅上，心里不时考虑着这变幻莫测的人生和幸福希望的不稳定性。 "What did I want with the little cuss, now," he said to himself, "that I should have got myself treed like a coon, as I am, this yer way?" and Haley relieved himself by repeating over a not very select litany of imprecations on himself, which, though there was the best possible reason to consider them as true, we shall, as a matter of taste, omit." 我为什么非得追捕那个小东西呢？"他自忖道，"这个小东西搞得我如此狼狈，甚至是进退两难。"赫利暗自骂着自己以获得精神上的解脱，嘴里不时吐出一些不文雅的词语。尽管我们有充分的理由相信，赫利他自己非常适合于这些不文雅的咒骂话，但因为考虑到这些话是那么的不雅，所以我们还是把那些话略去不提了。 He was startled by the loud and dissonant voice of a man who was apparently dismounting at the door. He hurried to the window. 赫利被一个男人大而刺耳的声音惊动了，那个人很显然刚下马，赫利急忙跑到窗户那儿，想去看个清楚。 "By the land! if this yer an't the nearest, now, to what I've heard folks call Providence," said Haley. "I do b'lieve that ar's Tom Loker."" 老天！今天我真是幸运，这叫吉人自有天相，"赫利说，"如果我没看错，那不是汤姆·洛科吗？" 
赫利急忙跑了过去。在屋子的一角，一个身体强壮、肌肉结实的男子站在吧台旁，他身材足有六尺，脸上一副凶恶的神情。他身穿一件翻毛的水牛皮外衣，这和他的头发非常相配，使得他看起来毛茸茸的，而这又和他的外表非常相称。他头部和面部的每一个器官，凶残的相貌都处于极端恐怖的状态，这都充分显示了他的心狠手辣。确实，如果我们亲爱的读者能勾勒出一条戴帽子、穿人衣服的看门狗摇着尾巴跑进人们的院落时的样子的话，那他们也就不难想象出这个人的体型和举止行为了。他的旁边还有一个人，在许多方面，那个人的长相都和他有很大的差别。他个子不高，身体很瘦小，身子可以像猫一样弯曲，他的眼睛很锐利，总让人有种自己的脸上的各个部位在被他随时窥探研究的感觉，好像他是故意削尖了自己的眼睛似的。他长长削瘦的鼻子向前伸出，好像它很急于搞清楚自然界万事万物的奥秘似的。他那光亮稀少的头发也急切地向前伸了出来，他的一举一动，一言一行无不显示出他是一个冷静、严谨、感觉敏锐的人。那个高大男子倒了半杯没加水的烈酒，没说一句话便喝了个底儿朝天。那个小个儿站在那儿，踮着脚，不时把头从这边探向那边，又朝放各种瓶装酒的方向闻了闻，最后才以单薄、略显颤抖的声音点了一杯薄荷威士忌。倒好后，他自鸣得意地端起酒杯端详起来，好像刚做完一件非常正确而得体的事情一样，他在头上碰了碰指甲，然后悠闲地慢慢小口啜饮起来。
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