Bel Ami
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共 234 题- BEL AMI
- The Works of Guy de Maupassant
- VOLUME VI
- BEL AMI
- Forestier asked: "Where are you going?"
- Duroy answered: "Nowhere; I am just taking a stroll before turning in."
- Forestier murmured: "Hang it, that's not much!"
- Forestier said to him: "Good night, dear master."
- Duroy asked: "Who is that?"
- Duroy said: "Suppose we take a turn round the promenade."
- Forestier, rather surprised, said: "You make yourself at home."
- The other murmured: "Yes, I shall stay a little longer. It is not late."
- The brunette said: "Have you found your tongue again?"
- All at once she asked: "Will you come home with me?"
- II
- He stammered: "Madame, I am--"
- The bell had rung again. The servant announced "Madame de Marelle."
- Madame Forestier darted forward, exclaiming: "Good evening, Clotilde."
- Monsieur Walter asked: "Do you know Algeria, sir?"
- III
- Then he said to himself: "Come, let's go to work."
- All at once the thought struck him: "I must begin with my departure."
- After a violent effort, he added: "It is partly inhabited by Arabs."
- She pointed to a chair, saying: "Sit down and tell me about it."
- She went on, as he did not reply: "Well, come tell me what is it."
- Suddenly she asked: "What do you think of my friend, Madame de Marelle?"
- He was surprised, and answered: "I think--I think--her very charming."
- He said: "Oh, she is married, then! And what is her husband?"
- Forestier asked: "Where does it hang out?"
- IV
- Saint-Potin rose, saying: "I am ready."
- He went on, addressing Duroy as "My dear fellow."
- Duroy had not read Balzac, but he replied, "By Jove! yes."
- Duroy asked: "What is his wife, really?"
- The man-servant replied: "Master is engaged at his work."
- Duroy smiled, feeling flattered. "Ah! and what does that mean?"
- He said: "It is all the same to me. I play everywhere. Come, catch me."
- He sighed as he kissed her. "Thanks, I will worship you."
- She put her hand on his mouth, saying "Be quiet."
- She repeated: "Be quiet."
- He felt himself redden. "You know--you know--my place is very small."
- She consented at length. "Yes, to-morrow; at five o'clock."
- He pretended to know nothing. "No; what?"
- He replied: "It is very simple; I will move."
- Then he said: "You will let me know when the rent is to be paid."
- She replied, simply: "But it is paid, dear."
- He seemed annoyed: "Oh, no, indeed; I can't allow that."
- Then one morning came a fresh telegram: "To-day at five.--Clo."
- He said: "Would you like to go to Pere Lathuile's?"
- Duroy, surprised at this, asked: "Whoever took you there?"
- He would answer, with a swaggering air: "Take your part, by Jove!"
- He got up in a rage. "It does not vex me. It is a bother, that is all."
- He persisted. "I beg of you, I have a reason, a very serious reason."
- He stammered: "Clo, my little Clo, I have a reason."
- She was still looking him in the face. "It is true, then?"
- She whispered: "I will lend you some; will you let me?"
- He replied, in a tone of conviction: "Ah, yes, that it is."
- VI
- He hesitated a moment, and then said: "At play."
- Forestier, skeptical on the point, inquired: "Whom do you owe it to?"
- Duroy could not answer right off. "To--to--a Monsieur de Carleville."
- He tried to laugh it off with, "Come, don't be stuck-up."
- She turned on her heels, saying: "I don't associate with ponces."
- She asked, without understanding: "What? Why?"
- He exclaimed, in a pathetic tone: "Can we command our feelings?"
- He said, with a smile: "Thanks, you are an angel, a guardian angel."
- The old poet murmured: "Do you think so?"
- Duroy began to laugh: "You make me shudder all over."
- He added, after a pause: "I have only verse."
- He was hurt, and said: "Very well, I will come to dinner on Monday."
- Duroy asked: "Does she help him much?"
- George said: "She will marry again very quickly, no doubt?"
- VII
- One day Jacques Rival said to Duroy: "You are very patient."
- Duroy replied: "What can I do, there is no direct attack?"
- Boisrenard went on: "Who gave you this 'Echo'?"
- She ceased talking, and Duroy asked: "Is that all?"
- Duroy mechanically replied: "I am very much obliged to you."
- George exclaimed "Yes."
- The same voice gave the word "Fire!"
- He replied at haphazard: "No, I do not think so."
- Rival replied: "Yes, you bore yourself very well."
- The other smiled. "Yes, one shot apiece, that makes a couple of shots."
- He suddenly had an inspiration, and asked: "What is the rent here?"
- She reflected a few moments, and then said: "No, I won't have that."
- He was astonished, and asked: "Why not?"
- But she kept on refusing, "No, no, I won't have it."
- He grew indignant. "Never. I can promise you that."
- He was flattered "Really!"
- VIII
- He bowed, saying: "As you please."
- Madame Forestier pointed it out, saying: "This is L'Estherel."
- He murmured: "I will come down."
- He persisted, repeating, "Oh, I am much better. I feel it."
- He murmured: "You must be very tired?"
- She replied: "Yes; but I am, above all, overwhelmed."
- IX
- He blushed as he said: "Yes, to-morrow."
- She seemed surprised as she said: "Why so?"
- He reddened, saying: "I am a fool. But you frighten me a great deal."
- She was delighted, saying: "I--impossible! How is it?"
- She shook herself, saying: "Do leave off."
- She was amazed, saying: "What do you really mean?"
- She exclaimed, highly amused: "You goose."
- He murmured softly: "I shall love you very dearly, my little Made."
- Her husband awoke her, saying: "Look!"
- She consented with pleasure, saying: "Oh, yes; let us go."
- She murmured: "I am rather frightened. I should like to go back."
- The father merely said: "Shall I see you again soon?"
- The old woman growled: "I hope you won't regret what you have done."
- George murmured: "Ah! very good."
- And when he had finished speaking in turn, she said: "Now let us write."
- He answered: "Yes, exactly."
- Du Roy took up the lamp again. "And now to bye-bye," said he, with a
- She replied: "Go first, sir, since you light the way."
- She murmured, "Oh! do leave him alone."
- She murmured disdainfully, "How stupid you are with your stock joke."
- She murmured: "Yes, but it is nice sometimes."
- XI
- Madame Walter spoke of an entertainment that was going to be given by
- He did not understand what she meant, and inquired, "How of no moment?"
- George murmured: "Ah! so she fancied me."
- His friend was surprised, and exclaimed: "Who told you that--"
- Du Roy laughed, as he replied: "But I beg of you, madame, to do so."
- He murmured: "Will you allow me the hope that we shall be more so?"
- He replied: "I will obey with pleasure, madame."
- She was shocked, and murmured: "Oh, George!"
- George replied: "Very well. I will see about Rival and Norbert."
- She had recovered her assurance, and observed: "Why to-day, then?"
- He shrugged his shoulders, saying: "Oh, yes, she'll come."
- She answered: "But you cannot abandon your guests like that."
- She murmured: "Well, then I agree."
- As he re-entered his home, his wife said: "Where did you get to?"
- Madame Du Roy answered slowly: "Not over much."
- XII
- He started as though he had received a blow, and sighed: "Good God."
- He halted in surprise, saying: "What is it you wish, madame?"
- And he began his dinner. While eating he kept repeating to himself the
- He seized the opportunity: "It is true; will you come somewhere else?"
- George replied: "Do not trouble yourself, he knows what to do."
- XIII
- She replied, philosophically: "Who lives long enough will see it."
- She observed slowly: "Nor to me either; but he is making our fortune."
- George said: "Yes, certainly; I will go some time to-day."
- The statesman answered, "No."
- He growled: "Don't go on again in that style."
- He inquired, suddenly softening, "How so? What do you mean?"
- He said, "Yes, but I have no money under my hand."
- He answered, abruptly and almost harshly, "As to that, no, indeed."
- He remarked, "No, I do not like such pains."
- He replied, "No, not to-day. I have a headache, and it upsets me."
- He hesitated, but dared not refuse, so said, "Certainly."
- She clapped her hands, exclaiming: "How nice; what a dear you are."
- He answered: "I want to get down, too."
- He smiled, saying: "It is very likely one of the maid's."
- He was astonished, and gasped out: "No, you are mad."
- XIV
- George could not help muttering: "I thought so."
- Du Roy rose and said, dryly: "I must ask time to reflect."
- George bowed, saying: "Yes, sir."
- He asked abruptly: "Why so?"
- George began to stride up and down. He said: "You cannot accept."
- He stamped his foot. "You lie. It is not possible."
- She replied, quietly: "It is so, though."
- Madeleine merely murmured: "Just as you like."
- He stammered, reddening: "You are right. I am off."
- She replied, indifferently: "Just as you like."
- George inquired: "How much is this bracelet?"
- The man hesitated, and then replied: "No, sir; that is impossible."
- They took a box, and he continued: "Suppose we dine at a restaurant."
- Du Roy raised his hand to light up their reflections, and said, with a
- XV
- His wife said: "Be quiet and do likewise."
- He sneered: "We shall see about all that, you are too rich."
- She remarked: "But you, too, have come in for an inheritance."
- Du Roy remarked: "What a mixed salad of society."
- George whispered: "An amorous _tete-a-tete_."
- He refused gently, saying: "No, we must keep to our agreement."
- He wanted to refuse, observing: "No, I will not take that money."
- She murmured: "So much the better, if I could die."
- He was astonished, and asked: "Who is he, too?"
- Susan smiled, saying: "Oh! I know all about it."
- She said: "Come along, Pretty-boy."
- He growled ill-temperedly: "What is it?"
- He only remarked: "I have changed my mind."
- Du Roy thought: "Will this resolution hold good?"
- XVI
- She inquired, smiling: "What have you against him?"
- She was slightly astonished, saying: "You?"
- She said, in a severe tone: "You are mad, Pretty-boy."
- He remarked: "Just as you like."
- The commissary of police bowed, saying: "I am at your service, sir."
- The commissary said: "Go first, sir, I am at home."
- The commissary replied: "Open, in the name of the law."
- The voice repeated: "Who are you?"
- The voice went on: "What do you want?"
- Du Roy said: "It is I. It is useless to seek to escape."
- George said: "If you won't open, we will break in the door."
- She uttered in a choking voice: "Yes, sir."
- The commissary again asked: "Who are you?"
- The commissary asked: "Why not?"
- The other stammered: "Because I am--I am--quite naked."
- She inquired insolently: "Do you often have such jobs as these, sir?"
- He replied gravely: "As seldom as possible, madame."
- She smiled in his face, saying: "I congratulate you; it is dirty work."
- Laroche-Mathieu murmured: "I have nothing to say; do your duty."
- She said with a certain swagger: "I do not deny it; he is my lover."
- The young fellow, sure of his effect, said, emphasizing every word: "I
- The other thought he was joking, and said: "Upset what?"
- XVII
- She murmured: "So do I you, Pretty-boy."
- She replied: "Ask Papa for my hand. Perhaps he will consent."
- She asked: "What is to be done?"
- She answered resolutely: "Yes."
- Susan interrupted him with: "Oh, mamma will agree."
- He replied, in low tones: "This evening--to-night."
- She asked, quivering: "And where shall we go to?"
- She declared: "I have made up my mind; where shall I rejoin you?"
- He started, almost choked with emotion, "Is that you, Susan?"
- He asked: "Well, how did it go off?"
- He was uneasy and quivering. "Your mamma. What did she say? Tell me."
- She murmured: "But I have no clothes. I have nothing."
- He smiled carelessly: "Bah! we will arrange all that there."
- She murmured, livid: "I--I lured him?"
- He asked, startled: "Well, what is it? What is the matter with you?"
- She stammered: "Have you seen Susan?"
- His wife had rejoined him, and stammered: "Well?"
- She did not understand, and said: "What do you mean? done for?"
- She gave a cry like that of a wild beast: "He, never! You must be mad!"
- XVIII
- He admitted it quietly, and added: "Did not you know it?"
- She murmured, quivering: "Oh! how cunning and dangerous you are."
- She screamed out: "You slept with her; I know you did."
- He replied, gayly: "Soon, madame."