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牢门开了，两名看守回来了。 'Press on, press on,' cried Fagin. 'Softly, but not so slow. Faster, faster!' “快啊，快啊，”费金嚷嚷着，“轻轻地，也别那么慢啊。快一点，快一点！” The men laid hands upon him, and disengaging Oliver from his grasp, held him back. He struggled with the power of desperation, for an instant; and then sent up cry upon cry that penetrated even those massive walls, and rang in their ears until they reached the open yard. 几个人伸手按住他，帮助奥立弗挣脱了他的手，将他拉回去。费金拼命挣扎了一下，随即便一声接一声地嚎叫起来，叫声甚而透过了那些厚厚实实的牢门，直至他们来到大院里，仍在他们的耳边鸣响。 It was some time before they left the prison. Oliver nearly swooned after this frightful scene, and was so weak that for an hour or more, he had not the strength to walk. 他们还要过一会儿才离开监狱。目睹了这样一个可怕的场面，奥立弗险些晕过去。他是如此衰弱，足有一个小时连步子都迈不开。 Day was dawning when they again emerged. A great multitude had already assembled; the windows were filled with people, smoking and playing cards to beguile the time; the crowd were pushing, quarrelling, joking. Everything told of life and animation, but one dark cluster of objects in the centre of all--the black stage, the cross-beam, the rope, and all the hideous apparatus of death. 当他们走出来的时候，天已经快亮了。一大群人早已聚集起来。一家家户户的窗日上挤满了人，抽烟的抽烟，玩牌的玩牌，消磨着时间；人们推来拥去，争吵说笑。一切都显得生气勃勃，唯有在这一切中间的一堆黑黝黝的东西除外--黑色的台子，十字横木，绞索，以及所有那些可怕的死刑器具。 
有关这部传记中出场人物的命运差不多已经讲完了。留给本书作者交待的只有简简单单几句话。 Before three months had passed, Rose Fleming and Harry Maylie were married in the village church which was henceforth to be the scene of the young clergyman's labours; on the same day they entered into possession of their new and happy home. 不出三个月，露丝·弗莱明与哈利·梅莱结婚了，地点就是那所从此以后将成为这位年轻牧师工作场所的乡村教堂。同一天，他俩搬进了幸福的新居。 Mrs. Maylie took up her abode with her son and daughter-in-law, to enjoy, during the tranquil remainder of her days, the greatest felicity that age and worth can know--the contemplation of the happiness of those on whom the warmest affections and tenderest cares of a well-spent life, have been unceasingly bestowed. 梅莱太太也搬来跟儿子、儿媳妇住在一块儿，准备在宁静的余年享受一下品德高洁的老年人所能领略的最大乐事--细细品味两个孩子的幸福，自己的一生没有虚度，又曾不断地向他俩倾注最温暖的爱心和无微不至的关怀。 It appeared, on full and careful investigation, that if the wreck of property remaining in the custody of Monks (which had never prospered either in his hands or in those of his mother) were equally divided between himself and Oliver, it would yield, to each, little more than three thousand pounds. By the provisions of his father's will, Oliver would have been entitled to the whole; but Mr. Brownlow, unwilling to deprive the elder son of the opportunity of retrieving his former vices and pursuing an honest career, proposed this mode of distribution, to which his young charge joyfully acceded. 经过充分而又周密的调查，黎福特家的那笔遗产（无论是在孟可司名下还是在他母亲手中，那笔财产从未增值），除去孟可司已经挥霍的部分，如果在他与奥立弗之间平分，各自可得三千英镑多一点。依照父亲的遗嘱，奥立弗本来有权得到全部财产，但布朗罗先生不愿意剥夺那位长子改邪归正的机会，提出了这样一个分配方式，他的那位幼小的被保护人愉快地接受了。 Monks, still bearing that assumed name, retired with his portion to a distant part of the New World; where, having quickly squandered it, he once more fell into his old courses, and, after undergoing a long confinement for some fresh act of fraud and knavery, at length sunk under an attack of his old disorder, and died in prison. As far from home, died the chief remaining members of his friend Fagin's gang. 孟可司，依旧顶着这个化名，带上自己得到的那一份财产，隐退到新大陆一个遥远的地方去了。在那儿，他很快便把财产挥霍一空，又一次重操旧业，由于犯下另一桩欺诈罪被判长期监禁，最终因旧病复发死在狱中。他的朋友费金一伙余下的几名首犯也都客死异乡。 
布朗罗先生把奥立弗当作亲生儿子收养下来，带着他和老管家迁往新居，离自己那几位老朋友的牧师住宅不到一英里，满足了奥立弗那热情而又真挚的心怀中余下的唯一希望，就这样，他把一个小小的团体联系在一起，他们的幸福俨然达到了在这个动荡不定的世界上所能达到的最高境界。 Soon after the marriage of the young people, the worthy doctor returned to Chertsey, where, bereft of the presence of his old friends, he would have been discontented if his temperament had admitted of such a feeling; and would have turned quite peevish if he had known how. For two or three months, he contented himself with hinting that he feared the air began to disagree with him; then, finding that the place really no longer was, to him, what it had been, he settled his business on his assistant, took a bachelor's cottage outside the village of which his young friend was pastor, and instantaneously recovered. Here he took to gardening, planting, fishing, carpentering, and various other pursuits of a similar kind: all undertaken with his characteristic impetuosity. In each and all he has since become famous throughout the neighborhood, as a most profound authority. 两个年轻人结婚以后不久，那位可敬的大夫便返回杰茨去了。在那儿，离开了那班老朋友，他本来没准会变得牢骚满腹，或者莫名其妙地变得暴躁易怒，幸而他生来没有这样一份德性。两三个月之间，他一开始还通过暗示来自我宽慰，意思是那边的空气恐怕对自己不大合适，随后又发觉对他说来当地确实已经和过去大不一样了，他把业务交给助手，在年轻朋友担任牧师的那所村子外边租了一所供单身汉住的小房子，所有的不舒服便立刻康复了。在那里，他忙于种花、植树、钓鱼、做木器活以及诸如此类的活动，不管是干什么，他无不带着自己独具一格的急性子。他后来在各个方面都成为最渊博的权威人士，名气传遍了附近一带。 Before his removal, he had managed to contract a strong friendship for Mr. Grimwig, which that eccentric gentleman cordially reciprocated. He is accordingly visited by Mr. Grimwig a great many times in the course of the year. On all such occasions, Mr. Grimwig plants, fishes, and carpenters, with great ardour; doing everything in a very singular and unprecedented manner, but always maintaining with his favourite asseveration, that his mode is the right one. On Sundays, he never fails to criticise the sermon to the young clergyman's face: always informing Mr. Losberne, in strict confidence afterwards, that he considers it an excellent performance, but deems it as well not to say so. It is a standing and very favourite joke, for Mr. Brownlow to rally him on his old prophecy concerning Oliver, and to remind him of the night on which they sat with the watch between them, waiting his return; but Mr. Grimwig contends that he was right in the main, and, in proof thereof, remarks that Oliver did not come back after all; which always calls forth a laugh on his side, and increases his good humour. 大夫搬家以前就已经对格林维格先生印象极佳，这位执拗的绅士也对他投桃报李。一年当中，格林维格先生多次前来拜访。每次来访，格林维格先生都劲头十足地植树、钓鱼、做木工。他做什么事情都与众不同，有的更是史无前例，而且老是搬出他所珍爱的那句名言来说明自已的方法才是正确的。赶上礼拜日，他照例要当着年轻牧师的面对布道演说评点指摘一番，事后又总是极其秘密地告诉罗斯伯力先生，他认为牧师的布道发挥得好极了，但还是不明说的好。布朗罗先生经常取笑格林维格先生，重提他那个在奥立弗问题上的过了时的预言，帮助他回想他们将怀表放在两人中间，坐等孩子归来的那个夜晚。不过，格林维格先生依旧一口咬定自己大体上是对的，并且以奥立弗毕竟没有回来作为凭证--这事总要引起他一阵大笑，快活的心情有增无已。 Mr. Noah Claypole: receiving a free pardon from the Crown in consequence of being admitted approver against Fagin: and considering his profession not altogether as safe a one as he could wish: was, for some little time, at a loss for the means of a livelihood, not burdened with too much work. After some consideration, he went into business as an Informer, in which calling he realises a genteel subsistence. His plan is, to walk out once a week during church time attended by Charlotte in respectable attire. The lady faints away at the doors of charitable publicans, and the gentleman being accommodated with three-penny worth of brandy to restore her, lays an information next day, and pockets half the penalty. Sometimes Mr. Claypole faints himself, but the result is the same. 诺亚·克雷波尔先生由于指证费金而获得了王室的特赦，他认为自己的职业毕竟不像指望的那样可靠，在一段不太长的时间里又找不到不用花太大力气的谋生之道。经过一番考虑，他于起了举报这一行，生活上也有了上等人的派头。他的办法是，每逢礼拜时间穿上体面的衣服，由夏洛蒂陪同出去走走，这位女士一到大慈大悲的酒店老板的门口就晕过去，这位绅士破费几个小钱的白兰地把她救醒，第二天便去告发酒店老板，将罚款的一半装人私囊。克雷波尔先生本人有时也会晕过去，效果也很不错①。 Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, deprived of their situations, were gradually reduced to great indigence and misery, and finally became paupers in that very same workhouse in which they had once lorded it over others. Mr. Bumble has been heard to say, that in this reverse and degradation, he has not even spirits to be thankful for being separated from his wife. 邦布尔夫妇被撤职以后，逐渐陷于穷困潦倒之中，最后在他俩一度对其他人作威作福的那所济贫院里沦为贫民，有人听邦布尔先生说起，他背运、潦倒至此，简直连感谢上帝把他与老婆分开也打不起精神。 
凯尔司先生和布里特尔斯仍旧担任原来的职司，尽管前者已经秃顶，布里特尔斯这个大孩子也已头发斑白。他俩住在牧师先生家中，对这一家人以及奥立弗、布朗罗先生、罗斯伯力先生的服务却是同样周到，村民们直到今天也分不清楚他们到底属于哪一家。 Master Charles Bates, appalled by Sikes's crime, fell into a train of reflection whether an honest life was not, after all, the best. Arriving at the conclusion that it certainly was, he turned his back upon the scenes of the past, resolved to amend it in some new sphere of action. He struggled hard, and suffered much, for some time; but, having a contented disposition, and a good purpose, succeeded in the end; and, from being a farmer's drudge, and a carrier's lad, he is now the merriest young grazier in all Northamptonshire. 查理·贝兹少爷叫赛克斯的罪行吓破了胆，他进行了一连串的思考：正派的生活究竟算不算最好的。一旦认定这种生活理所当然是最好的，他便决定告别往昔，改过自新。在一段时间里，他拚死拚活地干，吃了不少苦头。不过，他凭着知足常乐的个性和向善的决心，终于获得成功，一开始是替庄户人打打短工，给搬运夫当下手，现在成了整个北安普顿郡最快活的畜牧业新秀。 And now, the hand that traces these words, falters, as it approaches the conclusion of its task; and would weave, for a little longer space, the thread of these adventures. 现在，笔者的手在行将完成自己的使命时变得有些发颤，很想拿这些故事的线，多织一会儿布。
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