[ Bell Ringing ]
[ Key Rattling In Lock ]
- 晚上好，艾略特先生 - 晚上好 - Evening, Mr. Elliott. - Good evening.
呵 Brrr.
- 只要在本上签名，如果你愿意 - 是的 - Just sign the book, if you will. - Yes.
- 你总是很忙，艾略特先生？ - 哦，还好 - Been keeping you busy, Mr. Elliott? - Oh, just nicely.
星期一去曼彻斯特- 一个犯人 Went up to Manchester on Monday-- a poisoner.
今天早晨去霍洛威孤儿院 都是很普通的犯罪 Baby-farmer at Holloway this morning. Very ordinary crimes, both of them.
明天要处理的这个有点特殊 This one we've got for you tomorrow is something special.
是的，非常特殊 Yes, very much so.
即使我有多年的专业经验... Even after all my years in the profession...
也还是很想见他 I'm quite looking forward to him. [ Chuckles ]
- 哦，我必须要走了 - 晚安，艾略特先生 - Well, I must be getting along. - Good night, Mr. Elliott.
- 晚安 - 7:00来一杯茶？ - Good night. - Usual cup of tea at 7:00?
哦，谢谢 Oh, please.
即使是我的导师， 伟大的贝利先生自己... Even my lamented master, the great Mr. Berry himself...
也无权绞死一名公爵 never had the privilege of hanging a duke.
是的 Yes.
这是一个什么样的 公务员生涯的结束啊 What a finale to a lifetime in the public service.
- “结束”？ - 是的，我想要退休了 - "Finale"? - Yes, I intend to retire.
用过了绸绳之后... After using the silken rope...
就再也不会满足于麻绳了 never again be content with hemp.
- 的确 哦，我们到了 - 哦，谢谢你 - Quite. Well, here we are. - Oh, thank you.
怎么处理他呢？ How will he approach it?
我想用最你所知道的 最平静的方式处理 I should think as the calmest you've ever known.
贵族特权，毫无疑问 Noblesse oblige, doubtless.
一个困难的客户 会让事情变得非常悲惨 A difficult client can make things most distressing.
他们中有些人 会变得非常歇斯底里 Some of them tend to be very hysterical.
完全不顾及别人 So inconsiderate.
哦，上校，考虑到 这场合的重要性... Well, Colonel, considering the importance of the occasion...
我应该早点退休 I shall retire early.
这个国家上一次 对公爵的处决真是办的非常糟糕 The last execution of a duke in this country was really badly bungled.
那是用斧子的旧时代，当然 That was in the old days of the ax, of course.
是的 Yes.
哦，我 - 我差点忘了 Oh, I -- I almost forgot.
嗯，你必须原谅我的无知... Um, you must forgive my ignorance...
我们明天早晨见面的时候... but when we meet in the morning...
我应该怎么称呼他？ what is the correct form of address?
- 殿下？ - 阁下 - Your Lordship? - Your Grace.
阁下？哦 Your Grace? Oh.
谢谢 Thank you.
早上好，阁下 Good morning, Your Grace.
早上好，阁下 [ Mutters ] Good morning, Your Grace.
[ Key Rattling In Lock ]
- 好吧 ，坐下 - 啊，晚上好，上校，来杯酒吗？ - All right. Sit down. - Ah, good evening, Colonel. Glass of wine?
晚上好，阁下 呃，谢谢，不要 Good evening, Your Grace. Uh, thank you, no.
我，呃 - 我来问一个你对 早餐有没有什么特别的要求 I, uh -- I called to inquire whether you had any special wishes for breakfast.
只要咖啡和一片面包，谢谢 [ Chuckles ] Just coffee and a slice of toast, thank you.
哦，也许再来一些葡萄 Oh, and perhaps a few grapes.
我不喜欢让读报纸的公众失望... I hate to disappoint the newspaper-reading public...
但对于常规的早餐来说太早了 but it'll be too early for the conventional hearty breakfast.
约定的时间是8:00， 不是吗？ The appointment is at 8:00, is it not?
8:00，呃，是的 At 8:00, uh, yes.
不揣冒昧地说一句， 我对你的平静感到很吃惊 If I may venture to say so, I am amazed at your calmness.
约翰逊医生总是对的... Dr. Johnson was, as always, right...
在他观察的时候，说： “我敢说，先生 when he observed, "Depend upon it, sir.
“当一个人知道 他几小时之后就要被绞死了... "When a man knows that he's going to be hanged in a few hours...
那会惊人地使他注意力集中” it concentrates his mind wonderfully."
是，哦，如果没什么 别的可以为你做的 - Yes. Well, if there is nothing further I can do for you --
没了，谢谢，上校 Nothing. Thank you, Colonel.
我们明天早晨 还有机会道别，我想 We shall have the opportunity of making our adieus in the morning, I presume.
很遗憾地说，是的 I regret to say, yes.
- 晚安，阁下 - 晚安，上校 - Good night, Your Grace. - Good night, Colonel.
“以下大事历史... [ Reading ] "A brief history of the events leading thereto...
“写于处决前夜... "written on the eve of his execution...
“作者：路易·德·阿斯科内·马兹尼， 查尔方特公爵十世... "By Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini, 10th duke of Chalfont...
“我冒昧地希望这不是完全无趣的... "Who ventures to hope that it may prove not uninteresting...
对那些读者来说” to those who remain to read it."
[ Snoring ]
朋友，你陪着我并非我的选择 My good man, it is not by my choice that you keep me company.
如果你想要睡觉， 我谦恭地恳求你安静地睡觉 If you wish to sleep, pray do me the courtesy of sleeping quietly.
“还剩下很少的一点 时间来写完我的故事... [ Reading ] "With so little time remaining to complete my story...
“很难选择从哪儿开始讲 "it is difficult to choose where to begin it.
也许我应该从头开始讲” Perhaps I should begin at the beginning."
[ Baby Crying ]
我出生时是一个健康的婴儿， 母亲是英国人，父亲是意大利人- [ Louis Narrating ] I was a healthy baby, born of an English mother and Italian father- -
[ Grunts ]
他才看了我一眼 就死于心脏病发作 Who succumbed to a heart attack at the moment of first setting eyes on me.
在这种情况下，很容易理解 我对他只有很少的记忆 In the circumstances, it will be understood that I have but slight memory of him.
“仅有的一些也是来自于 妈妈告诉我的” "The little I know comes from what Mama told me."
## [ Classical ]
你父亲是一个非常英俊的人 Your father was a very handsome man.
## [ Singing Opera In Italian ]
##[ Singing Continues ]
##[ Continues ]
## [ Sustained Note ]
妈妈是查尔方特 公爵七世的女儿... [ Louis Narrating ] Mama was the daughter of the seventh duke of Chalfont...
他住在查尔方特城堡 Of Chalfont Castle.
她和她英俊的歌手私奔了... - [ No Audible Dialogue ] - She eloped with her handsome singer...
放弃了中世纪的 壮观的查尔方特城堡... And exchanged the medieval splendors of Chalfont Castle...
选择了现代的 便利的公寓... For the modern conveniences of number 73...
西南区巴拉克洛瓦大街73号 Balaclava Avenue, S.W.
## [ Singing In Italian ]
他们很穷， 但他们有五年快乐和谐的时光... [ Louis Narrating ] They were poor, but they had five happy and harmonious years...
我的诞生把爸爸送进了天堂 Before my arrival sent Papa off to join the heavenly choir.
##[ Mazzini Singing In Italian ]
我父亲的死 造成了更大的贫困... [ Louis ] Reduced to even deeper poverty by my father's death...
妈妈放弃了她的自尊... Mama swallowed her pride...
试图和她的家族取得和解 And made an effort at reconciliation with her family.
他们甚至连她的信也不回 They did not even reply to her letter.
为了让我们活下来， 她被迫... In order to keep us both alive, she was reduced...
接受一个房客 To the horrible expedient of taking in a lodger.
[ Blows Nose ]
她必须为他做仆人的工作 For him, she had to perform the most menial tasks.
她感觉她的家族阴谋 来欺骗我的继承权... She felt that her family had conspired to cheat me of my birthright...
于是我从婴儿到童年... And I passed from infancy to childhood...
都生活在家族史和家谱的气氛中 In an atmosphere of family history and genealogies.
公爵领地的授予... The dukedom had been bestowed...
是由查理二世授予 亨利·德·阿斯科内上校... By Charles II on Colonel Henry D'Ascoyne...
以奖励他参军期间 为陛下的杰出服务 For services rendered to His Majesty during his exile.
后来，为了表彰 对陛下的服务... Later, for services rendered to His Majesty...
在女公爵的帮助下， 他复辟之后... After his restoration by the duchess...
头衔被赋予了独特的权力... The title was granted the unique privilege...
女性后代也有了象 男性后代一样的继承权 Of descending by the female as well as the male line.
- 路易 - 因此理论上是可行的... - Louis. - It was therefore theoretically possible...
就是通过妈妈， 我也可以继承公爵头衔 - that via Mama I might inherit the dukedom. - [ No Audible Dialogue ]
妈妈省吃俭用... Mama scraped and saved...
送我去她能支付得起的 最好的学校 And sent me to the best school she could afford.
我上学时候的一件小事 对我来说很有趣... One little incident of my school days occurs to me as amusing...
尤其是联系到我目前的处境 In relation to my present situation.
莱昂内·霍兰德 Lionel Holland.
第六诫是什么？ What is the Sixth Commandment?
来了，现在来了 [ Teacher ] Come, come now.
那么让别人来吧 Someone else then.
不知道，请，沃特曼小姐 I know, please, Miss Waterman.
路易·马兹尼，告诉他 Louis Mazzini. Tell him.
- “不能杀人” - 非常正确，路易 - "Thou shalt not kill." - Quite right, Louis.
第六诫是“不能杀人” [ Teacher ] The Sixth Commandment is "Thou shalt not kill:"
“不，在那些日子... [ Reading ] "No, in those days...
“我对于第六诫 从没有任何麻烦 "I never had any trouble with the Sixth Commandment.
至于第七诫，我才刚刚到年龄 去考虑这件事情” As to the seventh, I was hardly of an age to concern myself with it."
但是我已经 够年龄去恋爱了 Although I was old enough to be in love.
于是茜贝拉进入了我的故事 So Sibella enters my story.
茜贝拉和她弟弟，格拉汉, 是我仅有的密友... Sibella and her brother, Graham, were my only close friends...
我们一起长大 And we grew up together.
在他们那里，妈妈放松了 反对我和本地孩子们的交往 In their case, Mama relaxed her objection to my associating with the local children.
至少他们的父亲，哈沃德医生， 是一个专业人士 At least their father, Dr. Hallward, was a professional man.
路易，我们必须非常 认真地考虑你的将来 Louis, we must think very carefully about your future.
哦，找份工作应该非常容易 Well, it should be quite easy to get a job.
不是一份工作，亲爱的， 是一个职业 Not a job, dear. A career.
我曾经希望你能进剑桥 I had hoped for Cambridge for you.
德·阿斯科内家的人总是上三一学院 The D'Ascoynes always go to Trinity.
然后，也许，去外交部 And then, perhaps, the diplomatic.
但我恐怕期望那么高是没有用的 But I'm afraid it's no use looking as high as that.
无论如何， 等你通过了你的考试... However, when you've passed your examination...
那应该能让你在这些专业之中 有一个好的开始 that should equip you for a start in one of the professions.
我的理解是，好人家的孩子 现在都要成为专业人士 People of quite good family go into the professions nowadays, I understand.
现在，谁是我们认识的 能帮助我们的人呢？ Now, who do we know who could help us?
我们不认识任何人， 除了家族以外，但他们又不认识我们 We don't really know anyone, except the family, and they don't know us.
至少我们可以试一试 The least we can do is try once more.
我要给阿斯科内·德·阿斯科内勋爵写信 I shall write to Lord Ascoyne D'Ascoyne.
他肯定能在他的银行里 为我们做点事情 He can surely do something in that bank of his.
银行，妈妈？那是一家专业的吗？ Bank, Mama? Is that a profession?
这是一家私人银行，路易，亲爱的 This is a private bank, Louis, dear.
他们不在柜台上交易现金 They don't pass money over the counter.
信件及时地送出去了... [ Louis Narrating ] The letter was duly dispatched...
这次我们得到了答复 And this time we did get an answer.
“夫人，按照阿斯科内·德·阿斯科内勋爵的指示... "Madam, I am instructed by Lord Ascoyne D'Ascoyne...
“我通知你，他不知道你的儿子... "to inform you that he is not aware of your son's existence...
是德·阿斯科内家族的一员” as a member of the D'Ascoyne family."
他的秘书签的名 Signed by his secretary.
他非常愚蠢 - 他们都是 - 竟然不承认你... It's very stupid of him -- of them all -- not to admit your existence...
也许有一天，你会成为 查尔方特公爵 when one day you might be duke of Chalfont.
那是一个非常小的“也许”，妈妈 It's a very big "might," Mama.
至少还有12个人排在我前面... There must be at least 12 people before me...
再加上还有些未出生的 to say nothing of the ones who haven't been born yet.
更奇怪的事情也发生过 Stranger things have happened.
我不希望粗野， 但是看了他们的态度... I don't wish to be unchristian, but in view of their attitude...
我几乎希望那12个人 一夜之间就全死掉 I could almost wish those 12 people should all die tomorrow.
除了一个人，妈妈 All except one, Mama.
因为你必须在我成为公爵之前 成为查尔方特女公爵 Because you must be duchess of Chalfont before I'm duke.
那肯定是一份工作，而不是职业， 不管怎么说，妈妈 It will have to be a job, not a career, after all, Mama.
我恐怕是如此，路易 I'm afraid so, Louis.
一个德·阿斯科内家的人干贸易 A D'Ascoyne in trade.
可怜的妈妈的傻梦想... [ Louis Narrating ] Did poor Mama's silly dreaming...
在我的大脑里种下了一些种子， 日后长成了... Plant in my brain some seed which was afterwards to grow...
本世纪最耸人听闻的犯罪企图吗？ Into the most sensational criminal endeavor of the century?
如果那样，我当时 并没有意识到... If so, I was not conscious of it at the time...
因为有更值得 立即关注的事情 For there were things of more immediate concern.
就算是未来的公爵， 也得要吃饭 Even potential dukes have to eat.
柏金斯先生， 我们家15年的房客... Mr. Perkins, our lodger for nearly 15 years...
尽了他最大的努力帮忙 Did his best to be helpful.
他在一家本地纺织品 商店做巡视员... He was employed as shopwalker in a local drapery store...
帮我在那儿找了一份工作 And found employment for me there.
未来可能的查尔方特公爵... The possible future duke of Chalfont...
现在却是纺织品商店的助理 Became what was known as a general assistant at the drapery.
这羞辱整整持续了两年 This humiliation continued for two dispiriting years.
然后有一天， 妈妈的眼镜碎了... And then one day, Mama, who had broken her glasses...
她没钱修理... And could not afford to have them mended...
在克拉范交叉路口 被一辆电车撞倒... Was knocked down by a tram near Clapham Junction...
受了致命伤 And fatally injured.
- 路易 - 是，妈妈 - Louis. - Yes, Mama.
我希望能被葬在查尔方特... I should like to be buried at Chalfont...
家族墓地里 in the family vault.
是，妈妈 Yes, Mama.
我给公爵写信 告诉他妈妈的遗愿 [ Louis Narrating ] I wrote to the duke informing him of Mama's dying wish.
他的回答是 最简略的拒绝 His reply was the curtest possible refusal.
站在可怕的郊区墓地里 妈妈的可怜的小坟墓旁边... Standing by Mama's poor little grave in that hideous suburban cemetery...
我发誓要对她的家族 对她的不公正进行报复 I made an oath that I would revenge the wrongs her family had done her.
那不过是 一片年轻的虚张声势... It was no more than a piece of youthful bravado...
但它也是那些注定 要长成橡树的橡子之一 But it was one of those acorns from which great oaks are destined to grow.
即使在那时， 我就开始去查家谱... Even then I went so far as to examine the family tree...
把它剪裁到 只剩下活着的成员 And prune it to just the living members.
但我能做什么来伤害他们呢？ But what could I do to hurt them?
我能从他们那里拿走什么... What could I take from them...
除了，也许，他们的生命？ Except, perhaps, their lives?
我在白日梦里沉迷了一段时间， 希望所有那12个人... I indulged for a moment in a fantasy of all 12 of them...
在一次家庭团圆聚会中 被同时消灭... Being wiped out simultaneously at a family reunion...
那只看不见的手... By my unseen hand...
把一个从克拉凡姆来的贫穷的男孩 神奇地赋予他长子继承权 Of the penniless boy from Clapham being miraculously transplanted to his birthright.
我甚至思索 关于我应该怎样计划它 I even speculated as to how I might contrive it.
但还有其它更紧急的问题 But there were other more urgent problems.
妈妈的微薄的养老金收入 随着她的去世已经停止了 Mama's tiny income came from an annuity and had died with her.
每周只有25先令， 如何解决如何生存的问题... The problem of how to live on 25 shillings a week was solved for me...
我接到了哈沃德医生的邀请， 寄宿在他们家 By an invitation from Dr. Hallward to lodge with them.
接受无名小卒的地位很屈辱... It was galling to accept the status of a poor relation...
但是每天都能见到茜贝拉 是一个太难拒绝的诱惑 But the certainty of seeing Sibella every day was too tempting to be refused.
路易，我很高兴你接受了 Louis, I'm so glad you accepted.
那是我的主意，你知道的 It was my idea, you know.
- 我给你带了点东西 - 哦，路易，你不应该这样 - I've brought you something. - Oh, Louis, you shouldn't have.
你可能无法负担 You can't possibly afford it.
[ Horn Honking ]
哦，多讨厌啊 莱昂内在那里 Oh, what a bother. There's Lionel.
晚饭时候见 See you at supper.
[ Door Closes ]
[ Car Departing ]
接下来的几年 充满了许多失望... [ Louis Narrating ] The next few years brought many such heartbreaks...
但也有所提升- But they also brought promotion- -
卖花边和彩带， 30先令一周... laces and ribbons at 30 shillings a week...
卖布料，32先令6便士一周 Fabrics at 32 and six.
最后，卖妇女内衣， 35先令一周 - Finally, ladies' underwear at 35. - [ Door Opens ]
我决定如果我不得不 做一个布料商... I decided that if I was to be a draper...
至少我不会做一个郊区的布料商 At least I would not be a suburban draper.
于是我跳槽到一个刚刚在西区开张的 大型的现代商店... So I migrated to a large modern store which had just been opened in the West End...
拿到了每周两镑的高额薪水 At the gigantic salary of two pounds a week.
每天午饭时间我去看 我的继承进行的如何 Every lunchtime I went to see how my inheritance was proceeding.
有时候死亡栏 带来好消息 Sometimes the deaths column brought good news.
有时候出生栏 带来坏消息 Sometimes the births column brought bad.
公爵的双胞胎儿子的出生 真是一个可怕的打击 The advent of twin sons to the duke was a terrible blow.
幸运的是， 传染性白喉... Fortunately, an epidemic of diphtheria...
几乎立即恢复了现状... Restored the status quo almost immediately...
而且甚至给我带来了 一个女公爵的形式的奖品 And even brought me a bonus in the shape of the duchess.
那年夏天 哈沃德家举办了一场晚会 That summer the Hallwards gave a party.
##[ Piano ]
##[ Ends ]
- 晚上好，茜贝拉 - 你好，路易 - Good evening, Sibella. - Hello, Louis.
- 你看起来不错 - 你也是 - You do look nice. - So do you.
- 不是吗，莱昂内？ - 非常好 - Doesn't he, Lionel? - Very. [ Clears Throat ]
## [ Piano Resumes ]
在她对我的亲切鼓励下... [ Louis Narrating ] Emboldened by her kindness to me...
我做了一个决定， 我已经琢磨了很长时间 I made a decision I'd been toying with for some time.
哦，最后一个了， 谢天谢地 Well, that's the last of them, thank heaven.
- 多好的夜晚啊 - 我想这是一个非常棒的夜晚 - What an evening. - I thought it was a very nice evening.
也许全都是为你准备的 It may have been for you. [ Groans ]
作女人真可怕， 必须要和那么多无趣的人跳舞... It's awful being a woman, having to dance with a lot of dull men...
在他们踩你的脚的时候， 还得对他们讲的笑话发笑 laugh at their jokes while they're treading on your feet.
- 我没有踩你的脚 - 你不无趣 - I didn't tread on your feet. - You're not dull.
- 而且你的笑话很有趣 - 谢谢 - And your jokes are funny. - Thank you.
- 茜贝拉？ - 嗯？ - Sibella? - Mm-hmm?
茜贝拉, 你会嫁给我吗？ Sibella, will you marry me?
[ Giggles ]
路易，当然不行，快起来 Louis, of course not. Do get up.
你可能是半个意大利人， 但即使那样... You may be half Italian, but even so...
你看起来还是很傻， 象是在演舞台剧里的情人 you do look silly playing the stage lover like that.
- 哦，我看起来很傻，是吗？ - 是的，非常傻 - Oh, I look silly, do I? - Yes. Very.
我看起来还傻吗？ Do I still look silly?
现在，你愿意嫁给我吗？ Now, will you marry me?
不 No.
- 为什么？ - 因为我刚说了我要嫁给莱昂内 - Why not? - Because I just said I'd marry Lionel.
- 不行 - 为什么？ - You can't. - Why not?
好，他是一个乡巴佬 他不是一个绅士 Well, he's a clod. He's not a gentleman.
听听是谁在说话 Listen to who's talking.
谁听说过一位绅士 还为房客擦皮鞋？ Whoever heard of a gentleman blacking the lodger's boots?
那样说是不好的 只因为妈妈太穷 That's a wicked thing to say. Just because Mama was poor.
莱昂内有一天会非常有钱 Lionel will be very rich one day.
- 我可能有一天会成为一个公爵 - 猪也可能会飞 - I might be a duke one day. - Pigs might fly.
不，我会的，真的，我会的 你知道，妈妈是公爵女儿- No, I might. Really, I might. You see, Mama was the daughter--
哦，是的，我知道 Oh, yes. I know.
好吧，等你成了公爵... Well, when you are a duke...
你来找我，给我看你的王冠， 或者不管你怎么叫它... you just come and show me your crown, or whatever it's called...
然后我会觉得自己非常傻， 会吗？ and then I'll feel awfully silly, won't I?
是的，你会的 Yes, you will.
不管怎么说，我要嫁给莱昂内， 现在我要上床了 Anyhow, I'm going to marry Lionel, and now I'm going to bed.
你会的 - You will. - [ Giggling ]
如果有一个精确的时刻... [ Louis Narrating ] If there was a precise moment...
我不切实际的梦想 变成坚定意志的话... At which my insubstantial dreaming took on solid purpose...
就是在那时候 That was it.
德·阿斯科内家的人不只 错待了我母亲... The D'Ascoynes had not only wronged my mother...
他们还是我得到 我想要的东西的障碍 They were the obstacle between me and all that I wanted.
我越想到他们那些人， 我研究过他们... The more I thought of them, these people whom I had studied...
对他们的名字和历史 熟悉的象对我自己一样熟... Until I knew their names and histories as well as I knew my own...
他们就越变得象 傲慢而残忍的怪物... The more they became monsters of arrogance and cruelty...
他们在这世界上的唯一功用 就是剥夺我的出生权 Whose only function in the world was to deprive me of my birthright.
我只在妈妈画的画上 见过查尔方特 I had seen Chalfont only as Mama had painted it.
为了穿过那神奇的大门... To pass in through that magnificent gateway...
必须在参观日，花上六便士... On visitor's day at a cost of sixpence...
真是一个耻辱的经历... Was a humiliating experience...
但是我强迫自己忍受这个 But I forced myself to undergo it.
我想近距离地看看 我决定瞄准的目标 I wanted a closer view of the target at which I had determined to aim.
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我只期望能瞟一眼靶子 I little expected to catch a glimpse of the bull's-eye.
对不起，先生 Excuse me, sir.
那时候有八个人 在我和公爵爵位之间... There were then some eight people between me and the dukedom...
看起来都是遥不可及 All seemingly equally out of reach.
想不露痕迹地杀很困难... It is so difficult to make a neat job ofkilling people...
尤其是连他们的朋友都不是 With whom one is not on friendly terms.
我几乎要放弃了， 因为那看起来根本不可能... I was almost resigned to its being an impossibility...
但是一个下午，有一刻， 当我的想法离目标越来越远的时候... When one afternoon, at a moment when my thoughts were furthest from the subject...
命运帮了一把 Fate took a hand.
如果你们没有更好的了， 只好要那些了 If you've nothing better, those will have to do.
这些伦敦商店比巴黎的差远了 These London shops are so far behind Paris.
快点把它们包起来， 我们要带走 Parcel them up quickly, and we'll take them with us.
- 记在我的帐上 - 是，先生，名字是什么？ - Charge them to my account. - Yes, sir. What is the name?
阿斯科内·德·阿斯科内先生 Mr. Ascoyne D'Ascoyne.
终于，我和他们之一面对面了 [ Louis Narrating ] At last, I was face to face with one of them.
这是银行家 阿斯科内·德·阿斯科内勋爵的儿子... This was the son of Lord Ascoyne D'Ascoyne, the banker...
他拒绝帮我找一个体面的职业... Whose refusal to help me towards a more dignified career...
使我只好从事目前这可耻的行业 Had led to my present ignominious occupation.
这傲慢的小狗有什么权力... What right had this arrogant puppy...
站在柜台对面对我发号施令？ To be standing on the other side of the counter ordering me about?
在激动与愤怒中， 我公然倾听他们的对话 In my excitement and anger, I listened openly to their conversation.
我在梅登海德的 克鲁克山旅馆定了房间 I've booked rooms at Cruickshanks' at Maidenhead.
我们星期五下午晚点过去 We'll go down late on Friday afternoon.
你确定那里安全吗？ Are you sure it's safe?
那是最秘密的地方 实际上，是匿名登记的 It's the most discreet place. In fact, anonymous.
嘿，你，赶快包装， 不要偷听我们谈话 Hey, you. Get on with that parcel, and never mind what we're talking about.
你敢再拿那东西碰我一下试试！ Don't you dare touch me like that!
我对你们愚蠢的对话不感兴趣 I'm not interested in your idiotic conversation.
如果你想在偷听之外 再加上无礼的话... If you want to add impertinence to your eavesdropping...
我们马上就会看到结果 we'll soon see about that.
结果就是我被 从那个位置上解雇 [ Louis Narrating ] The upshot was that I was dismissed on the spot.
我决定要以某种方式报复他... I decided to repay him in kind...
把他从这个世界上 以同样突然的方式解雇 By dismissing him with equal suddenness from this world.
他的谈话告诉了我 也许可以在哪里找到机会杀了他 His conversation had told me where I could probably find the opportunity to kill him.
哈沃德医生的药房 给我提供了一个方法 Dr. Hallward's dispensary had provided me with a means.
用我在通知处 拿到的一周的薪水... With the week's wages I had received in lieu of notice...
我买了一套合适的衣服 准备去梅登海德度周末 I invested in suitable apparel for a weekend at Maidenhead.
有可能他们会认出我... It was possible they might remember me...
但我想不太可能... But I thought it unlikely...
商店售货员通常 被看作是低等种族... Shop assistants being commonly regarded as an inferior race...
从不会被柜台对面的人注意 Who never emerged from the other side of the counter.
我决定主动出击 I decided to take the bull by the horns.
请原谅，请问是否可以 赏光借个火 Forgive me. I wonder if you could oblige me with a match.
- 当然 - 谢谢 - Certainly. - Thank you.
- 我们以前在什么地方见过吗？ - 没有 - Haven't we met before somewhere? - I don't think so.
有趣，因为我几乎 敢发誓我认得你的脸 Funny, 'cause I could have sworn I knew your face.
- 你去年去过蒙特吗？ - 前年 - Were you at Monte last year? - The year before.
啊，一定是了 能和我一起坐吗？ Ah, that must be it. Won't you join me?
谢谢，今晚不行 Thank you. Not this evening.
我们很累了 We are rather tired.
我不赞成他们那么早就退席... [ Louis Narrating ] I deprecated their retiring so early...
但很难责备他们... But it was hard to blame them...
对于生活来说，周末是短暂的 For weekends, like life, are short.
第二天上午， 我等着他们下来- The next morning, I waited for them to come down- -
直到第二天下午 and the next afternoon.
他们整天都没有出现 They didn't appear the whole day.
第三天上午也没有 Nor the morning after.
我不再感到伤感 I no longer felt sentimental.
周末几乎结束了， 我几乎看不到有什么天意... The weekend was nearly over, and I could hardly expect providence...
要照顾我， 再给我一次机会 To offer me so promising a chance again.
我陷入绝望的境地... I was in a state of desperation...
我跟踪他们， 希望我不曾经历 And I followed them, hoping for I knew not what.
我身上带着毒药，但他们 甚至连野餐的篮子也没有带着 I had the poison with me, but they hadn't even taken a picnic basket.
当然，还是有可能，他们会 在某地停下来吃点东西 It was possible, however, that they might stop somewhere for refreshment.
他们后来确定停了一会... They did stop shortly afterwards...
但不是为了那个 But not for that.
根据以往的经验判断， 他们会在那里停留几小时 Judging by past experience, they would be there for hours.
该河段每天下午两点拦河坝闸关闭时会有危险， 游河者届时请泊好小艇， 桥上出现红旗为危险警告标志
剩下的就很简单了 The rest followed automatically.
我碰巧在克拉凡姆 市立游泳池学过游泳... I had fortunately learned to swim at the Clapham Municipal Baths...
虽然从没有机会试过潜泳 Though I never had occasion to try it underwater.
我可不希望 在他们鼻子底下浮上来... I had no wish to surface under their noses...
虽然我怀疑就算那样 他们也不会注意到我 Though I doubt if they would have noticed me even if I had.
时间安排的非常好 It was beautifully timed.
[ Bell Tolling ]
我觉得很对不起那个女孩... I was sorry about the girl...
值得安慰的是，根据她的 反应推测，在那个周末... But found some relief in the reflection that she had presumably, during the weekend...
她正经历的命运 比死亡还不好 Already undergone a fate worse than death.
我决定推迟考虑 下一次出手的地点和方式... I decided to defer consideration of where and how I should next strike...
直到我的神经 完全恢复过来 Until my nerves were thoroughly restored.
必须记住 我曾经非常年轻... It must be remembered that I was very young...
而且， 我不是天生无情 And, furthermore, I am not naturally callous.
我突然想到了 一个非常妙的主意 I suddenly conceived a brilliant idea.
我要给老阿斯科内·德·阿斯科内 写一封措词优美的吊唁信 I would write a carefully phrased letter of condolence to old Ascoyne D'Ascoyne.
那是对他对妈妈的 冷酷无情的最佳报复 It would be an agreeable feeling of revenge for his cruelty to Mama.
也是为我自己报仇， 他在那时没有给我... And, further, it had not failed to occur to me that there was, at the moment...
那个银行里的差事 A vacancy in the banking house.
阿斯科内·德·阿斯科内 适时地上钩了 Ascoyne D'Ascoyne duly rose to the bait.
请坐下，马兹尼先生 Please be seated, Mr. Mazzini.
你好！ How do you do?
我已故的儿子 My late son.
一个巨大的损失 A great loss.
他又年轻又愚蠢... He was young and foolish...
但我相信他直到 成年都是悠闲的- but I believe had he been spared until his maturity--
我的良心让我来 用我的同情安慰你 It was my consciousness of that which led me to presume to tender you my sympathy.
我很高兴你这么做 I am glad that you did so.
巨大的损失会使他们 合适的前景看起来微不足道 A loss so tragic serves to put lesser matters in their proper perspective.
如果我记得不错，马兹尼先生... If I remember rightly, Mr. Mazzini...
几年前， 我接到过一封信... some years ago I received a communication...
你母亲写的 from your mother.
我已故的母亲 My late mother.
## [ Phonograph: Waltz ]
你好，路易 你看起来非常得意 Hello, Louis. You look very pleased with yourself.
- 你也是 - 我有消息 - So do you. - I have news.
- 我也有 - 是什么？ - So have I. - What is it?
不，你先说 No, yours first.
莱昂内和我已经定下了 结婚的日子，两个月之后 Lionel and I have fixed a date for our wedding, in two months' time.
恭喜 My congratulations.
不，我应该恭喜他 我恭维你 No, I should congratulate him. I compliment you.
- 你的呢？ - 没有你的那么激动 - Now yours. - Nothing as exciting as yours.
我今天去看阿斯科内·德·阿斯科内勋爵， 我堂弟，你知道 I went today to see Lord Ascoyne D'Ascoyne, my cousin, you know.
你在城里有一间私人银行 He has a private banking house in the city.
他立刻答应以一周 五镑的薪水雇佣我... He offered me employment at once at five pounds a week...
还有很好的提升的前景 With excellent prospects for promotion.
路易，我很为你高兴 Louis, I'm so glad for you.
- 路易，你还记得吗？ - 什么？ - Louis, do you remember? - What?
有一次，在这间屋子里... Once, in this room...
在我的晚会后- after my party--
- 我吻了你 - 是的 - I kissed you. - Yes.
而你对我非常可怕 And you were horrible to me.
是的 Yes.
我那时取笑过你， 关于你和德·阿斯科内家的关系 I made fun about you being related to the D'Ascoynes.
对不起 I'm sorry.
你现在愿意认真考虑了？ You'll take it more seriously now?
是的 Yes.
路易，亲亲我... Louis, kiss me...
来证明你已经原谅我了 to show you've forgiven me.
不，那样是不对的 你已经抵押给莱昂内 No, it would be wrong. You're pledged to Lionel.
那天晚上我表现的象个无赖 I behaved like a cad that night.
我喜欢你表现的象个无赖 I like you when you behave like a cad.
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你以后还会经常跳舞，茜贝拉... You're a person who must dance through life, Sibella...
我希望莱昂内不要经常踩你的脚 and I hope Lionel won't tread on your feet too often.
我的新职业已经 够低贱的了... [ Louis Narrating ] My new employment was humble enough...
但在我爬上去之前， 还要测试一下梯子的踏脚 But I had to test the rungs of the ladder before I could climb it.
- 哦 - 好 - - Oh. - Well --
- 那真是非常好 - 哦 - - That's very nice. - Oh -- [ Clears Throat ]
下一个要干掉的候选人似乎是 年轻的亨利·德·阿斯科内... [ Louis Narrating ] The next candidate for removal seemed to be young Henry D'Ascoyne...
24岁，刚刚结婚... 24 years old, recently married...
至今，没有任何问题 As yet, without issue.
如今我已经拥有了相当多的 关于德·阿斯科内的数据的积累... I had quite an accumulation by now of D'Ascoyne data...
是从报纸和杂志精选出来的... Culled from newspapers and periodicals...
我从中间寻找 一种接近亨利的方法 And I looked through it for a possible approach to Henry.
我找到了一个 I found one.
我买了必需的设备， 二手的... I bought the necessary equipment, secondhand...
接下来的周末 就骑自行车去那里 And bicycled down the following weekend.
那一周我研究了 几本摄影手册... I had studied a couple of photographic manuals during the week...
发现，实际上， 照相机的神秘... And found that, in practice, the mysteries of the camera...
只需要一点普通智力... Demand a little more than ordinary intelligence...
再加上能上下颠倒地 判断主题的能力 Plus the ability to judge the subject upside-down.
事实上，就是这样， 我第一次见到了亨利·德·阿斯科内 It was thus, indeed, that I first saw Henry D'Ascoyne.
我接近的方法被证明 取得了立即的成功 My method of approach proved an instantaneous success.
对不起 那是一部索顿·皮卡德吗？ Excuse me. Isn't that a Thornton Pickard?
是的，你是一名摄影师吗？ Yes. Are you a photographer?
刚刚涉足 有一部桑哥·谢菲尔德 Dabble in it. Got a Sanger Shepherd.
- 一部桑哥·谢菲尔德？ - 很棒的小相机 - A Sanger Shepherd? - Nice little camera.
焦平面快门， 快速直线等等 Focal plane shutter, rapid rectilinear and all that.
看这里，来我的房子怎么样， 我让你看看它？ Look here. Why not come up to my house, and I'll show it to you?
哦，我非常感兴趣 Well, I'd be most interested.
- 顺便说一下，我的名字是德·阿斯科内 - 我叫马兹尼 - My name's D'Ascoyne, by the way. - Mine is Mazzini.
他看起来是一个非常快乐的家伙... [ Louis Narrating ] He seemed a very pleasant fellow...
我遗憾我们的相识只能如此短暂 And I regretted that our acquaintanceship must be so short.
把一个制陶的棚屋改造成了暗室 Had one of the potting sheds fixed up as a darkroom.
再合适不过了， 就象是为这个打造的一样 Couldn't have suited better if it had been built for it.
设备都是从城里送来的 Had the equipment sent down from town.
我必须说结果 绝对是第一流的 And I must say the results have been absolutely top-hole.
我来给你看一些 我拍的村子的照片 I'll show you some quarter-plates I've taken about the village.
在这里 绝对地防光，除了这个 There we are. Absolutely lightproof, except for this.
一切都很顺手 - 显影液盘子在这里， 调色盘在这里，整版放大器 Everything to hand -- developing dishes here, toning bath here, whole-plate enlarger.
- 非常好 - 还不错，是吗？ - Perfect. - Not too bad, is it?
谈到村子，顺便说一下， 我不知道你是否想过... Talking of the village, by the by, I don't know if you're thinking...
把你的作品送到一些期刊去... of sending any of your efforts here to some periodical...
但只有一件事 but there's just one thing.
我肯定你是一个好人， 否则我就不会问了 I'm sure you're a good fellow, or I wouldn't like to ask.
问什么？ Ask what?
如果你能把你照的最后一张 保留的话，我会非常感激 I'd be most grateful if you'd keep back that last plate you exposed.
- 小旅馆那张？但那张很不错 - 是的 - The inn? But it was delightful. - Yes.
事实是，我妻子对 那样的地方有看法... The fact is, my wife has views about such places...
所以我从不进去，你明白吗？ so I never go in them, you understand?
当然，我不想困扰你 Naturally, I wouldn't dream of embarrassing you.
我知道你是一个好人 也许我们可以喝一杯？ I knew you were a good fellow. Suppose we drink on it?
除非你有别的想法，当然 Unless you have views yourself, of course.
- 没有 - 太好了 - None. - Splendid.
喝什么呢？ 雪利？威士忌？ What shall it be? Sherry? Whiskey?
[ Chuckles ]
我想来点显影液 I think a small developer.
从亨利嘴里听到的他妻子的形象... [ Louis Narrating ] The mental picture of his wife that I had formed from Henry's words...
让我对即将遇到的 这个女人毫无准备 Left me unprepared for the charm of the woman I was to meet.
她长的又高又瘦， 非常纯洁而美丽 She was as tall and slender as a lily and as beautiful.
亲爱的，这是马兹尼先生 他有一部索顿·皮卡德相机 My dear, this is Mr. Mazzini. He has a Thornton Pickard.
马兹尼先生，我妻子 Mr. Mazzini, my wife.
我本人不是摄影师， 马兹尼先生... I'm no photographer myself, Mr. Mazzini...
但我分享我丈夫欢迎同好的乐趣 but I share my husband's pleasure in welcoming a fellow enthusiast.
- 你要来点雪利酒吗？ - 哦，谢谢，我 - - You'll take some sherry? - Well, thank you, I --
我丈夫和我从不碰白酒， 但我们认为没有理由，由于这个... My husband and I never touch alcohol, but we see no reason, on that account...
而把我们的观点 强加给我们的客人 - to enforce our views on our guests. - [ Door Closes ]
来一杯雪利酒，哈伍德 Glass of sherry, Harwood.
我有一些印象框扔在太阳下了 I have some printing frames out in the sun.
如果你不介意， 我现在就跑出去看看它们 If you don't mind, I'll just run out and see to them.
你做我们的邻居时间长吗， 马兹尼先生？ Have you been in the neighborhood long, Mr. Mazzini?
只有几个小时 A few hours only.
我在村子里转转... I was cycling through the village...
被迫停下来 研究一下小旅馆 and felt compelled to stop and make a study or two of the inn.
- 它看起来非常迷人 - 它看起来的确迷人 - It looked so charming. - It does look charming.
但我恐怕，它对我们住在 这儿的人起不到一点好的影响 But I'm afraid it's, by no means, an influence for good in the lives of our people here.
店主是我们以前的一个马车夫 The landlord is a former coachman of ours.
我对他谈过很多次 关于那里的喝酒问题... I have spoken to him several times about the amount of drinking that goes on there...
但他置若罔闻 but he continues to allow it.
我猜，不管怎么说， 那是他的生意 It is, after all, I suppose, his livelihood.
我不认为他有权 用这种办法谋生... I do not consider he has the right to make a livelihood...
利用他那些同好的 弱点来剥削别人 by exploiting the weaknesses of his fellow men.
不管怎么说， 这听起来很可叹 Put as you put it, it does sound deplorable.
那是很可叹 对不起，等一下 It is deplorable. Will you excuse me a moment?
哈伍德 Harwood.
我能完全理解 亨利对乡村酒店的拜访... [ Louis Narrating ] I could well understand Henry's visits to the village inn...
以及他花费在 暗房里的精力 And his stock of refreshments in the darkroom.
德·阿斯科内夫人虽然很美丽， 但她太一本正经了 Mrs. D'Ascoyne was beautiful, but what a prig she was.
我琢磨怎么样迎合她... I wondered how to ingratiate myself with her...
最后决定直接用她自己的 武器进攻她的战场 And decided to attack on her own ground and with her own weapons.
恐怕我们只能给你 提供一顿便餐，马兹尼先生 I'm afraid we can offer you only a simple luncheon, Mr. Mazzini.
你们非常好心， 但我觉得我不应该打扰你们 You are most kind, but I feel I should not intrude.
- 这不是打扰 - 恐怕是的 - It is no intrusion. - I'm afraid it is.
- 我可以解释吗？ - 请吧 - May I explain? - Please do.
只是当你丈夫告诉我 他的名字的时候... It was only when your husband told me his name...
我才意识到我偶然 陷入到最尴尬的处境 that I realized that I'd come by chance into the most embarrassing situation.
我母亲是德·阿斯科内 家族的一员 My mother was a member of the D'Ascoyne family.
她嫁给了，他们所认为的， 比她等级低的人 She married, as they thought, beneath her.
从那天起， 他们拒绝承认她... And from that day, they refused to recognize her...
以及我的存在 or my existence.
我感觉，虽然在这种环境下， 你可能不愿当面对我说... I feel that, although in the circumstances you might hesitate to say so to my face...
你和你丈夫不愿意 在你们的餐桌上接受我 you and your husband would prefer not to receive me at your table.
也许你能够好心向你丈夫解释我的事情 Perhaps you would be good enough to explain matters to your husband for me.
我会，自然而然地， 马上离开这里 I shall, naturally, leave the neighborhood at once.
马兹尼先生，请坐下 Mr. Mazzini, please sit down.
哦 Oh.
你已经表达了最脆弱的感情 You have exhibited the most delicate feelings.
我对你所讲的历史一无所知... I know nothing of the history to which you refer...
但我经常感到我丈夫家族的态度... but I have often felt that the attitude of my husband's family...
没有能够与时俱进 - has failed to move with the times --
他们过多地考虑贵族的权利... that they think too much of the rights of nobility...
而忽视了它的义务 and too little of its duties.
你的行为的特别诚实 显示给我证明他们的错误 The very honesty of your behavior would appear to me to prove them wrong.
难道泰尼森爵士写这段话的时候 是完全错误的吗： Was Lord Tennyson far from the mark when he wrote:
“仁心比冠冕重要... "Kind hearts are more than coronets...
信仰比贵族血液重要” and simple faith than Norman blood"?
我希望你能留下用午宴 I hope you will stay to luncheon.
哦，在那种情况下， 我将非常高兴而荣耀 Oh, in that case, I shall be delighted and honored.
我扮演的有着 纯正品格的角色... [ Louis Narrating ] My impersonation of a man of sterling character...
带来了彻底的胜利... Was such a resounding success...
德·阿斯科内夫人邀请我 和他们共度周末 That Mrs. D'Ascoyne invited me to spend the following Saturday-to-Monday with them.
当我回到克拉凡姆 那完全相反的气氛中时... When I returned to the somewhat contrasting atmosphere of Clapham...
我发现整个房子都在忙着准备 茜贝拉和莱昂内的婚事... I found the house in a whirl with preparation for Sibella's wedding to Lionel...
婚礼第二天就要举行 Which was to take place next day.
在那天晚上上床睡觉之前， 我漫步进旧婴儿室... Before going to bed that evening, I wandered into the old nursery...
去取我丢在那里的一本书 To fetch a book I'd left there.
给他们一便士 Penny for them.
哦，你好，路易 Oh, hello, Louis.
你看起来不象那些和你一样 处境的年轻女士们那样容光焕发 You're not looking as radiantly happy as young females in your situation are supposed to look.
我刚才在想我们 在这间屋子里的欢乐时光 I was just thinking of all the fun we've had in this room.
- 你和我和格拉汉 - 还有莱昂内 - You and I and Graham. - And Lionel.
是的，还有莱昂内 Yes, and Lionel.
哦，路易，我不想嫁给莱昂内！ [ Sobbing ] Oh, Louis, I don't want to marry Lionel!
- 为什么？ - 他太沉闷了！ - Why not? - He's so dull! [ Sobbing Continues ]
我必须承认他表现了 中年男人才有的最特殊的品质... I must admit he exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age...
是我遇到的24岁的 年轻人里最老的一个 that I've ever encountered in a young man of 24.
但是，今天再来想这个 有点迟了，不是吗？ However, it's a bit late in the day to think of that, isn't it?
我知道 那只会使事情更糟 I know. That only makes it worse.
- 我一直跟你说你应该嫁给我 - 我知道 - I always told you you should marry me. - I know.
那也使事情更糟 That makes it worse too.
[ Chattering ]
你今天比以往任何时候 看起来都更可爱 You look more lovely today than I've ever seen you.
你是一个幸运的人，莱昂内 记住我的话 You're a lucky man, Lionel. Take my word for it.
我无法抑制地感觉到 即使茜贝拉的撒谎能力... [ Louis Narrating ] I could not help feeling that even Sibella's capacity for lying...
也要被激发到极限 Was going to be taxed to the utmost.
时间将带给我对莱昂内的报复 Time had brought me revenge on Lionel.
正如意大利谚语所说： And as the Italian proverb says.
“报复是喜欢 吃凉菜的人的最爱” "Revenge is a dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold: "
接下来的星期六， 我在半夜离开了伦敦... The following Saturday I left London in the middle of the night...
在天亮前到达了亨利的房子 And reached Henry's house just before dawn.
仅仅用了三分钟时间 我就把暗室灯里的... It took a mere three minutes to substitute petrol...
石蜡换成了汽油 For the paraffin in the darkroom lamp.
然后我去到一块草地， 睡了几个小时... And I then repaired to a meadow and took a few hours' sleep...
等待我可以合理地 到达房子的时间 While awaiting the hour at which I could reasonably arrive at the house.
那天在我焦虑不安的 苦恼中过得很慢 The day dragged by in an agony of suspense for me.
亨利照了一张又一张... Henry took photograph after photograph...
但是似乎没有任何需要 进暗室做进一步操作 But seemed to have no urge whatever to follow it up with a visit to the darkroom.
好啊，艾迪丝！ Bravo, Edith!
我开始害怕 他突然改变了爱好 [ Louis Narrating ] I began to fear that he had suddenly taken the pledge.
我想我要在喝茶前去冲洗这些 介意跟来吗？ I think I'll just go and develop these before tea. Care to come?
我非常想，但是我有一点头痛 - 我想，是太阳造成的 I would, indeed, but I have a slight headache -- the sun, I think.
我恐怕化学品不会改善它 And I'm afraid the chemicals wouldn't improve it.
马兹尼先生和我要在郁金香树下喝茶 Mr. Mazzini and I will have tea under the tulip tree.
我常发现那对头痛很有好处 I've always found that most beneficial for a headache.
我恐怕亨利会认为 我是一个没有热情的人 I'm afraid Henry will think me a poor enthusiast.
我有时候会认为 他是一个很伟大的人 I sometimes think that he is too great a one.
在某种程度上，我该受责备 In a way, I am to blame for it.
在我们结婚前， 他几乎没有爱好 Before we were married, he had few interests.
他通常在他的俱乐部 度过一天里的大部分时光 He used to spend the greater part of each day at his club.
[ Explosion ]
我感觉那样的一种生活是不健康的， 于是说服他住在这里的乡下 I felt that such a life was unhealthy and persuaded him to live here in the country.
我希望也许他能在我们佃农的 福利方面找到兴趣，就象我一样 I hoped that perhaps he would interest himself in the welfare of our tenantry, as I do.
但他在我们的蜜月里 变得对摄影有兴趣... But he became interested in photography on our honeymoon...
从那时起，那变成了 他生活中的当务之急 And since then it has become the major preoccupation of his life.
- 马兹尼先生 - 是的 - Mr. Mazzini. - Yes.
我希望你原谅 我跟你谈这件私事... I hope you will forgive my speaking to you on a personal matter...
但我很担心亨利 在他的业余爱好方面花费了太多的时间... But it worries me that Henry should spend so much time on his hobby...
以至于他没有太多时间 来忙其他更有用的事情 that he has little left for any more useful activity.
我让他继续这样下去对吗？ Am I right to let him go on like this?
我几乎想指出 亨利现在再也没有时间... [ Louis Narrating ] I could hardly point out that Henry now had no time left...
从事任何活动了... For any kind of activity...
于是我继续讨论他的将来 So I continued to discuss his future.
他从没有表现任何愿望 想要一份政治方面的职业吗？ He has never shown any wish for a career in politics?
- 没有 - 也没有其他任何野心？ - None. - Nor any other ambitions?
只有一个- 赢得布鲁塞尔 摄影沙龙的大奖 One only-- to win a prize at the Salon Photography in Brussels.
那是什么？ What is it?
他们正在花园底部烧一些树叶 They're just burning some leaves at the bottom of the garden.
但他们不能在这个季节烧啊 But they can't be at this time of year.
- 亨利！ - 不，你留在这里 - Henry! - No. You stay here.
毋需多言，我去的太迟了 [ Louis Narrating ] Needless to say, I was too late.
[ Bell Tolling ]
葬礼是在查尔方特的 乡村教堂里举行的... The funeral service was held in the village church at Chalfont...
后来安葬在家族墓地里 Prior to interment in the family vault.
[ Tolling Continues ]
德·阿斯科内夫人， 已经了解了我... Mrs. D'Ascoyne, who had discerned in me...
一个有着脆弱的敏感 和高度目的心的人，... A man of delicate sensibility and high purpose...
要我陪她去做穿越全国的旅行 Asked me to accompany her on the cross-country journey.
“大千世界中，万物皆有时节... "To everything there is a season...
“一切自有深意 "and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
有诞生，也有死亡的时候” A time to be born, and a time to die."
那场合很有趣， 它提供给了我... [ Louis Narrating ] The occasion was interesting in that it provided me...
看见全部德·阿斯科内家族 所有人的第一次机会 With my first sight of the D'Ascoynes en masse.
有趣同时也有点郁闷... Interesting and somewhat depressing...
因为它强调了 我还必须要走多远 For it emphasized how far I had yet to travel.
有公爵 There was the duke.
有我的雇主， 阿斯科内·德·阿斯科内勋爵 There was my employer, Lord Ascoyne D'Ascoyne.
有霍雷肖·德·阿斯科内上将爵士 There was Admiral Lord Horatio D'Ascoyne.
有鲁弗斯·德·阿斯科内将军爵士 There was General Lord Rufus D'Ascoyne.
[ Snoring ]
有阿加莎·德·阿斯科内女爵士 - There was Lady Agatha D'Ascoyne. - [ Snoring Continues ]
嘘！ Shh!
在讲坛上， 还有说着冗长废话的... [ Louis Continues ] And in the pulpit, talking interminable nonsense...
亨利·德·阿斯科内爵士牧师 The Reverend Lord Henry D'Ascoyne.
生命的片断是一个... The life cut short was one...
富于成就和承诺... rich in achievement and promise...
服务于人性 of service to humanity.
德·阿斯科内家族 当然似乎符合... [ Louis Narrating ] The D'Ascoynes certainly appeared to have accorded...
有土地的贵族的传统... With the tradition of the landed gentry...
把家族里的笨蛋送进教堂 And sent the fool of the family into the church.
哦，再见，我亲爱的 Well, good-bye, my dear.
- 再见 - 现在别烦恼 - Good-bye. - No fretting now.
毕竟，有一件事值得一说 - 我们都会有这一天 After all, one thing to be said -- we all have to come to it.
伟大的东西，你知道，象我们的家族墓地 总是提醒着一个人的遗产 Great thing, you know, family vault like ours. Constant reminder of one's heritage.
好，看看这新式火葬的胡闹 Now, take this new cremation nonsense.
谁愿意看见他最亲近的人 被放进焚尸炉？ Who wants to see his nearest and dearest put in an incinerator?
我认为，先生，德·阿斯科内夫人应该离开了 风转凉了 I think, sir, Mrs. D'Ascoyne should leave. The wind is turning cold.
如德·阿斯科内夫人所愿 As Mrs. D'Ascoyne thinks best.
很高兴我们有亨利堂弟 来承担这服务 Glad we had Cousin Henry to take the service.
无聊的旧习惯， 但它一直保持了家族的传统 Boring old ass, but it keeps the thing in the family.
这些天人们有些奇怪的主意 People getting strange ideas these days.
不久前有一个家伙写信给我... Had a fellow write to me not so long ago...
想把他的母亲从图庭 还是什么地方葬在这里 wanted to bury his mother here from Tooting or somewhere.
一旦开始允许陌生人进来， 这地方就会被塞满 Start letting strangers in, the place will be full up.
没空间给我们了，啊？ No room for us, eh?
我私下里向他承诺 我会把它当成是我自己的事情... [ Louis Narrating ] I privately promised him that I would make it my business...
看看有留给他的空间 To see there was room for him.
[ Hoofbeats ]
艾斯瑞德叔叔 不是最圆滑的人 Uncle Ethelred is not the most tactful of men.
我会高兴于打击他 I could gladly have struck him.
谢谢你适时的介入 Thank you for intervening when you did.
这房子是那么空... The house will be so empty...
他还在这里的每一个地方 and yet he will be in it everywhere.
我发现很难面对生活在那里 I find the thought of life there hard to face.
你必须留在那里吗？ 一个新环境 - Must you stay there? A new environment --
我必须... I must...
如果没有其他原因的话， 至少还有一个 for one reason if no other.
他们会说我在逃避， 所有这些谣言里有一些是真的 They would say I was running away, that there was truth in all these rumors.
- 谣言？ - 在村子里 - Rumors? - In the village.
有人说闲话 There's been gossip.
他们说亨利偷偷喝酒 They say that Henry drank in secret.
他们甚至说 是那造成了意外 They even say that that was the cause of the accident.
我肯定亨利从不会 说一套做一套 I'm sure that Henry would never have professed one thing and practiced another.
我也肯定 I, too, am sure.
否则， 我想我就不能活下来 Otherwise, I think I could not survive.
我们还有很长的路要走 试着睡一小会儿吧 We have a long way to go. Try to sleep a little.
睡着不是那么容易的 [ Sobs ] Sleep does not come easily.
请试试 Please try.
请允许我 Allow me.
我被一种新的想法迷住了... [ Louis Narrating ] I was conscious that a new obsession...
和现在的混在一起，我戴着 查尔方特公爵的宝冠- Was about to join the one that I should wear the coronet of the duke of Chalfont- -
而艾迪丝·德·阿斯科内 戴着后冠站在我旁边 that Edith D'Ascoyne should wear that of the duchess beside me.
她忍受最悲痛时刻的高贵... Her dignity ofbearing at the worst moments of her grief...
给我留下了很深印象，使我感觉 她是那样的一个女人... Had impressed me with the feeling that here was a woman...
气质与美貌交相映衬 Whose quality matched her beauty.
我决心开始向她求爱... I resolved to embark upon her courtship...
一旦等到必要的哀悼期过去之后 As soon as a decent period of mourning should have elapsed.
茜贝拉？是的，茜贝拉在她 那种土气的方式里足够漂亮了 Sibella? Yes, Sibella was pretty enough in her suburban way.
而且，实际上，没有理由我们不能 继续以朋友的名义交往 And, indeed, there was no reason why we shouldn't continue to meet on friendly terms.
不过她的脸配上王冠 看起来很不对劲 But her face would have looked rather out of place under a coronet.
先生，那是这周需要付清的帐单 That, sir, is a list of bills due for redemption this week.
我已经把那些要求 续借的标成红的了 I've marked in red those asking for renewal.
艾奇森，是的 波尔和卡特，我想可以 Aitcheson, yes. Pole and Carter, I suppose so.
诺利斯有限公司，哦，不 Knollis Limited, oh, no.
瑞德班和霍兰德 - Redbank and Holland --
你在那里有一个朋友， 是吗？ You have a friend there, have you not?
一个熟人 我认识莱昂内·霍兰德 An acquaintance. I know Lionel Holland.
你会说他是可靠的吗？ Would you say that he's sound?
我不能说不，先生 I wouldn't say not, sir.
唔，谢谢 Hmm. Thank you.
- 马兹尼 - 是，先生？ - Mazzini. - Yes, sir?
我已经关注你在这里的 进展很长时间了... I've watched your progress here with great care...
我很满意地注意到 它完全证明了我的判断... and have been gratified to note that it has fully justified my judgment...
来邀请你加入这家公司 in inviting you into the firm.
由于这个观察，并且为了能让你 过一种... In view of that, and in order that you may be able to adopt a style of living...
适合德·阿斯科内家族成员的生活... befitting a member of the D'Ascoyne family...
我决定任命你做 我的私人秘书... I have decided to appoint you my private secretary...
每年的薪水是500镑 at a salary of ￡500 per annum.
- 先生，我不能开始 - - 哦，请别推三阻四了 - Sir, I cannot begin to -- - Oh, please do not try.
我本来有意于让我儿子 来占据这个位子 I had intended that my son should occupy the position.
我只能说我将在这个位子上努力工作... I can only say that I will try to make my occupancy of it...
以不辜负对他的怀念 worthy of his memory.
我离开了哈沃德的房子... [ Louis Narrating ] I left the Hallwards' house...
在圣詹姆士街租了一个单身公寓 And took a bachelor apartment in St. James's.
克拉凡姆不再以 茜贝拉的出现来补偿我... Clapham no longer held Sibella's presence to compensate me...
在郊区与城区之间无聊的旅行 For the tedious journey between the suburbs and the city.
[ Doorbells Jingling ]
总之，她来这里拜访我 比以前方便了很多 Anyhow, it would be vastly more convenient for her to visit me here.
好，让我好好看看 美丽的霍兰德夫人 Now, let me have a look at the beautiful Mrs. Holland.
- 不，我想我更喜欢哈沃德小姐 - 我也是 - No, I think I prefer Miss Hallward. - So do I.
路易，来这里拜访你 对我来说是非常大的错误 Louis, it's very wrong of me to visit you here.
- 为什么？ - 一个有夫之妇拜访一个光棍？ - Why? - A married woman calling on a bachelor?
一个危险的光棍... A dangerous bachelor...
在他的公寓里 in his apartment.
我？危险？ I? Dangerous?
这些事情只有当人们 知道它们的时候才是错误的 These things only become wrong when people know about them.
这是一个非常谨慎的公寓 那是我选择它的原因 This is a very discreet apartment. That's why I chose it.
所以年轻妇女们 可以很安全地拜访你？ So that young women could call on you in safety?
所以有一位年轻妇女 可以这样 So that one young woman could.
你怎么知道她愿意去呢？ How did you know she'd want to?
我希望 I hoped.
- 你的蜜月过的好吗？ - 一点也不 - How did you enjoy your honeymoon? - Not at all.
一点也不？ Not at all?
一点也不 Not at all.
- 意大利怎么样？ - 哦，不可能！ - And how was Italy? - Oh, impossible!
每次我想去逛商店， 莱昂内就拉我去教堂... Every time I wanted to go shopping, Lionel dragged me off to a church...
或者画廊 or picture gallery.
- 说他想提高他的修养 - 他的确需要提高 - Said he wanted to improve his mind. - He has room to do so.
我应该责备你， 对他说那么刻薄的话... I should reprove you for saying unkind things about him...
但是我不能 but I can't.
路易，我想我嫁给了 全伦敦最无聊的人 Louis, I think I've married the most boring man in London.
- 全英国 - 全欧洲！ - In England. - In Europe!
哦，意大利男人们 都那么帅... Oh, the Italian men are so handsome...
但是我连一刻也摆脱不了莱昂内 but I could never get away from Lionel for a moment.
可我忘了 - 你是意大利人 But I was forgetting --you're Italian.
一半的 Half.
路易... Louis...
我可以坦白对你说 I can speak frankly to you.
哦，如果不对我说， 还能对谁呢？ Well, if not to me, to whom?
我快要发疯了 I shall go mad.
当他一碰我，我就想要尖叫 Already when he touches me, I want to scream.
我在干什么？ What am I doing?
你知道的很清楚 You know very well.
你在玩火 You're playing with fire.
至少它温暖了我 At least it warms me.
我必须走了 I must go.
莱昂内今天晚上在家吃晚饭 Lionel's dining at home tonight.
莱昂内明天晚上在哪儿吃晚饭？ Where is Lionel dining tomorrow night?
和一些生意上的熟人 With some business acquaintances.
那你明天晚上在哪儿吃晚饭？ And where are you dining tomorrow night?
这里？ Here?
这里 Here.
可怜的被关在笼中的小鸟 [ Louis Narrating ] Poor little imprisoned bird.
哦，我欢迎她来和我一起 鼓动她的双翅 Well, she was welcome to come and flutter her wings with me.
我可以想到许多种 消磨时间的讨厌的方法... I could think of many more disagreeable ways ofkilling time...
等待那一时刻的到来... Pending the arrival of the moment...
当谈话时机适宜的时候... When the conventional decencies would permit me...
我会向艾迪丝表白 To make my declaration to Edith.
至于另一件事情， 我还没有忘记或者原谅... As to the other undertaking, I had not forgotten or forgiven...
就是在小亨利葬礼 上的无聊的说教... The boredom of the sermon at young Henry's funeral...
我决定把亨利·德·阿斯科内爵士牧师... And I decided to promote the Reverend Lord Henry D'Ascoyne...
提升到名单里的下一个 To next place on the list.
我于是把服装和角色装扮成... I therefore assumed the garb and character...
一个来度假的殖民地的主教... Of a colonial bishop spending his vacation...
从乡村教堂收集黄铜拓片 Making a collection of brass rubbings from country churches.
晚上好，大人 Good evening, my lord.
有一瞬间， 我被对我的神职称呼吓了一跳... [ Louis Narrating ] It was, for a moment, a shock to be addressed by my ecclesiastical title...
但我很快恢复过来了 But I recovered quickly.
晚上好，我正在对这有趣的黄铜做拓片 Good evening. I was just taking a rubbing of this most interesting brass.
我已故爱妻的祖先 An ancestress of my dear late wife.
请允许我介绍我自己 Allow me to introduce myself.
亨利·德·阿斯科内， 本教区的教长 Henry D'Ascoyne, rector of this parish.
塞普提马斯·威尔金森， 马塔贝莱兰主教 Septimus Wilkinson, bishop of Matabeleland.
我正在用我的假期做一次巡回旅行， 参观一下你美丽的乡村教堂 I was spending my vacation taking a cycling tour around your beautiful country churches.
- 啊！你注意到我们的天窗了吗？ - 天 - - Ah! Have you noticed our clerestory? - Cle --
啊，非常精致！ Ah, exquisite!
- 房梁也非常漂亮 - 嗯 - The corbels are very fine. - Hmm.
也许大人会允许我 给你展示一两件东西... Perhaps Your Lordship would permit me to show you one or two other things...
我们引以为傲的东西 in which we take a pride.
我非常感兴趣 I should be most interested.
我们最值得注意的特点， 当然... Our most notable features, of course...
是德·阿斯科内的纪念馆 are the D'Ascoyne memorials.
这个家族的每一名成员... Every member of the family...
我有幸属于次子的分支... to a cadet branch of which I have the honor to belong...
都埋葬在这里的家族墓地里 is buried here in the family vault.
这里你能看到第一任公爵和... Here you will see the first duke and ...
... 他的夫人 死的总是看着活的 ... his duchess. The dead watching, as it were, over the living.
教堂例外地也赋予了... The church is exceptionally endowed also...
建筑上的趣味 with items of architectural interest.
你会注意到我们的小教堂... You will note that our chantry...
显示了浮雕和叶尖的弯曲... displays the crocketed and finialed ogee...
这说明它是 非常早期的垂直式建筑 which marks it as very early perpendicular.
垂饰的指挥很经典 The bosses to the pendant are typical.
而我经常说... And I always say...
我的西窗... that my west window...
有所有乔叟的丰富... has all the exuberance of Chaucer...
很高兴，却没有... without, happily...
他那个时代的 伴随的生硬 any of the concomitant crudities of his period.
嗯 Hmm.
现在我们去圣水盆 Now we approach the font.
最后他做了我希望的事情， 邀请我去吃晚餐 [ Louis Narrating ] At last he did as I had hoped and invited me to dinner.
亨利爵士牧师不是 那种新式的教区牧师... The Reverend Lord Henry was not one of those newfangled parsons...
把他们职业的原则 不舒服地带进私生活之中 Who carry the principles of their vocation uncomfortably into private life.
但是， 他展示了一种礼貌的兴趣... However, he exhibited a polite interest...
关于马塔布列地方 基督信仰的进展... In the progress of the Christian faith in Matabeleland...
我应付起来有点困难 Which I was at some difficulty to satisfy.
基督教学术推进会提供了我们... The S.P.C.K. Have provided us...
大量的好书副本... with a large number of copies of the good book...
翻译成了马塔布列语 translated into Matabele.
但是由于没有一个土著 能读懂他们自己的语言 - But as none of the natives can read even their own language --
- 你自己会说马塔布列语吗？ - 不如土著说的好 - You speak Matabele yourself? - Not as a native.
那会非常有趣... It would be most interesting...
如果能听一听那语言的样品的话 to hear a sample of the language.
我恐怕我的马塔布列语 有点生疏 I'm afraid my Matabele is a little rusty.
哦，来吧，大人 Oh, come, my lord.
丹尼尔被扔进了狮子洞， 比如说 Daniel cast into the lions' den, for example.
[ Clears Throat ]
[ Speaking Gibberish ]
丹尼尔 - [ Gibberish Continues ] Daniel --
[ Gibberish Continues ]
那是口语的翻译，当然 It is a colloquial rendering, of course.
非常有趣 Most interesting.
大人，波尔多就在你旁边 My lord, the port is with you.
哦 Oh.
- 你是怎么找到这些酒的？ - 绝妙的 - How do you find the wine? - Admirable.
- 69年的考克伯 - 哦 - Cockburn '69. - Oh.
最好的年份， 在我看来 No finer year, in my view.
但是，我的医生， 有不同的观点 My doctor, though, is of a different opinion.
那他喜欢什么？ And what does he favor?
禁欲 - Abstinence. - [ Laughs ]
你介意来一支雪茄吗？ Would you care for a cigar?
谢谢 Thank you.
是的 Yes.
他持续地警告我 关于我的动脉的状况 He's continually warning me about the state of my arteries.
[ Crinkles ]
但我对他说... But I say to him...
“可能有什么伤害呢... "What possible harm can there be...
“在晚上来一杯... "in one glass of an evening...
或者两杯？” or even two?"
什么伤害，说真的 What harm, indeed.
- 那么你不会谴责我？ - 一点也不会 - You do not condemn me then? - Not in the least.
如果我可以说... If I may say so...
不考虑对我的上级的无礼... without disrespect to my superiors...
你的到访给我带来了一些东西... your visit has brought me something...
一些我不期望能从这个国家 任何牧师处得到的东西 which I could not expect from any churchman in this country.
我猜测，正确地说，它证明... [ Louis Narrating ] I surmised, correctly, as it proved...
亨利爵士的医生 假定他死于过度饮酒... That Lord Henry's doctor would assume that he had succumbed to a surfeit of port...
客气地说，死因是心脏病 And would politely ascribe death to a heart attack.
在我回伦敦的路上， 我决定有系统地进行... On my return to London, I decided to proceed methodically...
对剩下那些小障碍的清理 With the elimination of the remaining minor obstacles.
阿加莎·德·阿斯科内女爵士 是妇女投票权运动的先锋 Lady Agatha D'Ascoyne was a pioneer in the campaign for women's suffrage.
由于她公开露面 造成的不方便的结果... With the inconvenient consequence that her public appearances...
总是使她处于大城市警方监视之下 Were invariably made under the watchful eyes of the metropolitan police.
当她不公开露面的时候... When she was not making public appearances...
她就进了监狱 变得更难接近 She was in prison and still more inaccessible.
- 事实上，在我能找到 一个好机会之前- - In fact, before I could learn of a favorable opportunity- - - [ Cheering ]
我自己也不得不参加她们的活动 I had to join the movement myself.
制定了一个关于 阿加莎女士的秘密计划... Secret plans had been made for Lady Agatha...
来庆祝她的最近一次 从霍洛威获释... To celebrate her latest release from Holloway...
要在白厅和西区洒传单 By a shower ofleaflets over Whitehall and the West End.
起锚 - [ Women Cheering ] - Anchor.
[ Cheering Continues ]
我向空中射了一支箭... [ Louis Narrating ] I shot an arrow in the air...
她掉在了伯克利 广场的地面上 She fell to Earth in Berkeley Square.
霍雷肖·德·阿斯科内上将爵士 是一个更困难的问题 Admiral Lord Horatio D'Ascoyne presented a more difficult problem.
他几乎从不上岸... He scarcely ever set foot ashore...
我开始感到这任务 甚至超出了我的机灵... And I was beginning to feel that this task was beyond even my ingenuity...
当他便利地卷入一桩 海军灾难的时候... When he was conveniently involved in a naval disaster...
被一种混合情绪激发起来， 本能的固执和... Which arose from a combination of natural obstinacy...
意识的混乱- And a certain confusion of mind- -
在他那个等级很不幸 unfortunate in one of his rank.
把她带到左舷 Bring her to port.
- 你当然是指右舷，先生 - 左舷！ - Surely you mean starboard, sir. - Port!
[ Horn Tooting ]
[ Loud Crash ]
两条船几乎立即沉没... [ Louis Narrating ] Both ships sank almost immediately...
但幸运的是， 所有水手都获救了- Though, fortunately, all hands were saved- -
救了一个 save one.
霍雷肖上将爵士， 坚持到最后一刻... Admiral Lord Horatio, obstinate to the last...
坚持要和他的船一起沉没 Insisted on going down with his ship.
鲁弗斯·德·阿斯科内将军爵士， 另一方面... General Lord Rufus D'Ascoyne, on the other hand...
不厌其烦地讲述他如何战斗... Who never tired of demonstrating how he had fought...
在南非战争中最不幸的战役... The most calamitous campaign of the South African War...
其实是一件相当容易的事情 Was a fairly easy proposition.
在那时候， 隐藏着的敌人... At that moment, the concealed enemy...
从小丘后面爬上来 emerged from behind the kopje.
我不让我们的枪开火， 直到我们能看见他们的眼白 I held our guns' fire until we could see the whites of their eyes.
然后我下令，“开火！” Then I gave the order. "Fire!"
咚，咚，咚 Boom, boom, boom.
这样似乎很合适， 他这样在大炮轰鸣中幸存下来的人... [ Louis Narrating ] It seemed appropriate that he who had lived amidst the cannon's roar...
应该死于爆炸 Should die explosively.
我于是在一罐 鱼子酱中隐藏了... I therefore concealed in a pot of caviar...
一枚简单的但威力 很大的自制炸弹... A simple but powerful homemade bomb...
通过邮局， 我把鱼子酱寄给了将军 And through the post, I sent the caviar to the general.
我假装被假象蒙蔽了... [ General D'Ascoyne ] I pretended to be deceived by the feint...
送出我们的骑兵去迎接它 And sent our horse to meet it.
那时候，受蒙骗的敌人 从小丘后面爬上来 At that moment, the concealed enemy emerged from behind the kopje.
我不让我们的枪开火... I held our guns' fire...
直到我们能看到他们的眼白 till we could see the whites of their eyes.
总是能在克里米亚 得到许多这东西 Used to get a lot of this stuff in the Crimea.
俄国人做的确实不错的东西之一 One thing the Russkies do really well.
他连一块碎片也没剩下 [ Louis Narrating ] Not an atom of him was left.
一定有人相信我们 不幸的家族遭到了诅咒，马兹尼 One could almost believe there was a curse on our unfortunate family, Mazzini.
真的，先生，一定有人 Indeed, sir, one could.
我不知道你是否意识到了 这一系列的悲剧... I don't know if you realize how close this series of tragedies...
已经使你非常接近 继承人的位置 has brought you to the succession.
- 我实际上从来没有考虑过这件事情，先生 - 那么是你该考虑的时候了 - I had not actually given the matter any thought, sir. - Then it's time that you did.
你没有意识到你是 公爵爵位的假定继承人吗？ Do you not realize that you are heir presumptive to the dukedom?
那就是说，如果现任公爵 死后无子嗣的话... That is to say, in the event of the present duke dying without issue...
只有我一个人在你和封号之间 I alone intervene between you and the title.
而我是一个老人了 And I am an old man.
我从第一起灾难起 就没有直正恢复过来 I have never really recovered from the first of these calamities.
你的意思是说 我可能会成为查尔方特公爵？ You mean I might become duke of Chalfont?
我的意思是说 你几乎可以肯定就是了 I mean that you almost certainly will.
考虑到这个， 我感觉这样更合适一些... In view of that, I feel it would be more fitting...
你应该停止再做这里的雇员 - that you should cease to be an employee here --
- 哦 - 改为我的合伙人 - Oh. - And become instead my partner.
我非常的感谢和荣幸 I am most deeply grateful and honored.
如果你过来这里， 我会把一切事情向你解释明白 If you'll come round here, I will make everything very clear to you.
呃，如果她活着的话，你的母亲，当然， 会在你之前继承 Uh, had she lived, your mother, of course, would have succeeded before you.
我作合伙人的第一件事情... [ Louis Narrating ] One of my first tasks as partner...
就是约见莱昂内， 他戴着帽子- Was to interview Lionel, who came cap- -
或者不如说， 手里拿着丝绸帽子 or rather, silk hat in hand.
为了节约时间，我假定你已经打过电话了， 要求续借你的帐单？ To save time, I presume you have called to ask the renewal of your bill?
事实是，老朋友， 我们卖了短期的... The fact is, old boy, we sold short...
而市场没有如我们预期的那样下跌 and the market hasn't dropped as we expected.
我感觉有资格 指出我们这里... I feel entitled to point out that we here...
考虑到我们的作用 是鼓励建设性投资... regard our function as the encouragement of constructive investment...
我们不能投资于 纯粹的赌博性交易 and not the financing of mere gambling transactions.
啊 - Ah --
拒绝他使我非常高兴 [ Louis Narrating ] It would have delighted me to refuse him.
不管怎么说，一个破产了的莱昂内 不再能继续... However, a bankrupt Lionel could hardly have continued...
支持茜贝拉 的奢侈生活... To support Sibella in her extravagances...
而我自己也不想那么做 And I had no wish to do so myself.
很好，我们会续借... 百分之三点五 Very well. We will renew... at three and a half percent.
我判断现在进行 下一步的时机已经成熟... [ Louis Narrating ] I judged that the time was now ripe to make a move...
来处理艾迪丝·德·阿斯科内的事情 In the matter of Edith D'Ascoyne.
越来越冷了 我们进去好吗？ It's becoming cold. Shall we go in?
我知道你刚才为什么颤抖了 I know why you shivered just now.
不是因为你觉得冷 It was not because you were cold.
是的 No.
我不由自主地想起 I couldn't help remembering.
我知道 但你试过忘记吗？ I know. But do you try to forget?
- 听起来很刺耳，但相信我 - - 请 - I may sound harsh, but believe me -- - Please.
不是那里 Not there.
因为那是亨利的椅子 Because it was Henry's chair.
从那天以后就再也没有用过 It hasn't been used since that day.
不要动他的任何东西 Nothing of his.
所有东西都象他离开的时候一样 - 他的写字台，他的衣服 Everything is just as he left it -- his writing desk, his clothes.
我无法忍受它变得不同 I cannot bear that it should be otherwise.
你想把这房子变成神殿 You want this house to be a shrine.
你错了 神殿是不适合住人的 You're wrong. Shrines are not meant to house the living.
我总是很尊敬你 - 你的信条，你的勇气 - I have always respected you -- your principles, your courage --
在我遇到过的所有女人之上 above any woman I've ever met.
那是对你自己和其他人的责任 - It is your duty to yourself and to others --
甚至对亨利的责任 - to Henry even --
重新为现在和未来生活 to live again in the present, in the future.
我还有什么未来？ What future is there for me?
我现在要说一些专横的话 I am now going to say something presumptuous.
如果你愿意，你一定要在 你的房子里命令我 You must order me from your house if you wish.
是这样的： It is this:
如果你曾经感觉到 一个专一的崇拜者持久的支持... If you should ever feel that the constant support of a devoted admirer...
会对你有所帮助的话... would be of assistance to you...
我会非常荣幸， 如果你允许我... I should be most honored if you would permit me to...
向你伸出婚姻之手 offer you my hand in marriage.
马兹尼先生 Mr. Mazzini.
这是一个震惊 This is a shock.
我非常感动 I'm most touched.
非常感激，但是... Most grateful, but...
我无法想象哪怕是 一丁点的再婚的可能性 I could not consider even the possibility of remarrying.
我说的太大胆也太快了 I have spoken too boldly and too soon.
请把我刚才说的 仅仅看成是某种引诱... Please regard what I have said merely as something to draw upon...
如果你感觉有那种倾向的话 should you ever feel so inclined.
当我回去的时候， 茜贝拉在等我 [ Louis Narrating ] Sibella was waiting for me when I got back.
我很高兴见到她， 我从没有喜欢艾迪丝... I was pleased to see her, for while I never admired Edith...
象喜欢茜贝拉那样... As much as when I was with Sibella...
但我从没有渴望过茜贝拉 当我和艾迪丝在一起的时候 I never longed for Sibella as much as when I was with Edith.
[ Door Closes ]
我恐怕来晚了 你厌倦了吗？ I'm afraid I'm late. Have you been bored?
没有 No.
我看着火想了想 I've been looking into the fire and thinking.
- 想什么？ - 哦 - What about? - Oh.
我们曾经怎样在火边烤栗子... How we used to roast chestnuts round the other fire...
从那时起发生了多少事啊 and what a lot has happened since.
比如？ Such as?
你曾经怎样告诉我不要嫁给莱昂内 因为你有一天可能会成为公爵... How you told me not to marry Lionel because you might be a duke one day...
而我曾经怎样嘲笑你 and how I laughed at you.
我又怎样嫁给了莱昂内 And how I married Lionel.
而现在你真的快要成为公爵了 And now you really nearly are a duke.
我们比以前富有多了，你和我 We're much better off as we are, you and I.
对你来说，一切都非常好 你又没有嫁给莱昂内 It's all very well for you to say that. You're not married to Lionel.
我们可以在想见的时候彼此相见 We see each other when we want to.
我们不想的时候也不会被迫相见 We're not obliged to see each other when we don't want to.
我们没有象我期望的那样经常相见 We don't see each other as often as I'd like to.
- 你整个周末都不在 - 我必须去 - You've been away the whole weekend. - I had to go.
- 哪里？ - 去看德·阿斯科内夫人... - Where? - To see Mrs. D'Ascoyne...
我那个被杀的堂兄的寡妇 the widow of that cousin of mine who was killed.
你所有的堂兄似乎都被杀了 All your cousins seem to get killed.
如果是你谋杀了他们所有人， 我真的一点也不感到吃惊 I really wouldn't be in the least surprised if you'd murdered them all.
- 哦 - 我多笨啊 - Oh. - How clumsy of me.
- 是什么让你说那个？ - 只是愚蠢 - Whatever made you say that? - Just silliness.
哦，如果你保证不告诉任何人， 我就让你知道我的罪恶秘密 Well, if you promise not to tell anyone, I'll let you in to my guilty secret.
是我杀了他们所有人 - I did murder them all. - [ Chuckles ]
我怀疑了很长时间 I've suspected it for a long time.
- 她长什么样？ - 谁？ - What's she like? - Who?
- 德·阿斯科内夫人 - 哦，她是，嗯，高个子，很苗条- - Mrs. D'Ascoyne. - Oh, she's, uh, tall, slender--
- 漂亮吗？ - 是的，我猜有些人会说她很漂亮 - Beautiful? - Yes, I suppose some people would call her beautiful.
- 你会吗？ - 我想是吧，我从没有认真想过这个 - Would you? - I suppose so. I never really thought about that.
如果她问你关于我的事情 你会怎么说？ What would you say if she asked you about me?
我会说你是一大堆不理想的 一个完美组合 I'd say that you were a perfect combination of imperfections.
我会说你的鼻子 有点太矮... I'd say that your nose was just a little too short...
你的嘴巴有点太大... your mouth just a little too wide...
但你的脸是一个男人梦寐以求的... but that yours was a face that a man could see in his dreams...
毕生追求 for the whole of his life.
我会说你是愚蠢的，自私的... I'd say that you were vain, selfish...
残忍的，欺诈的 cruel, deceitful.
我会说你是可爱的 I'd say that you were adorable.
我会说你是... 茜贝拉 I'd say that you were... Sibella.
多么精彩的演讲 What a pretty speech.
我是那么想的 I mean it.
来跟我再说一遍 Come and say it to me again.
我会说你的鼻子 有点太矮... I'd say your nose was just a little too short...
你的嘴，- 是的，你的嘴 - 有点太大 and your mouth --yes, your mouth -- just a little too wide.
不久之后，我的老板有一次中风 [ Louis Narrating ] Shortly afterwards, my employer had a stroke.
没有什么可以做的... There was little that could be done...
医生说他最多还能活一个月 And the doctor gave him a month, at the most, to live.
我很高兴， 他总是对我很仁慈... I was glad, after all his kindness to me...
让我不必去杀一个老人 That I should not have to kill the old man.
不久我和我的继承权 之间唯一的障碍... Soon the only obstacle between me and my inheritance...
就是公爵本人了 Would be the duke himself.
我可以说完全没有 处理他的计划... I could lay no plan for disposing of him...
因为他的生活都在那些厚厚的石墙后面， 我根本不了解 As the life he led within those great stone walls was a closed book to me.
我沮丧地检查这问题好几百遍... I was gloomily examining the problem for the hundredth time...
当有一天，我在公寓里等 茜贝拉来拜访的时候 As I awaited one day the expected arrival of Sibella at my apartments.
[ Doorbells Jingling ]
- 下午好，马兹尼先生 - 德·阿斯科内夫人！ - Good afternoon, Mr. Mazzini. - Mrs. D'Ascoyne:!
我正好经过圣詹姆士街... I was passing through St. James's...
忽然想到也许我可以趁这个机会来看看你 and thought I would take the opportunity to call on you.
那样明智吗？ 我是说，谨慎吗？ Was that wise? Discreet, I mean?
有一些个人环境的惯例必须要遵守 There are some conventions which must be governed by individual circumstance.
当然一个女人去拜访一个 她崇敬的人是安全的 Surely it is safe for a woman to visit a man of your reputation.
我想该崇敬的人是我 It is of your reputation that I'm thinking.
不是不好客，如果你的到访 不会太长的话我会很高兴 Without being inhospitable, I would be happier if your visit were not a long one.
我很感激你的行动的小心翼翼 I appreciate the scrupulousness of your motives.
- 总之，我只有一件重要的事情要说 - 是什么？ - I have, anyhow, only one important matter to speak of. - That is?
我想了许多我们 上次见面的时候你说的话... I have thought a great deal about what you said at our last meeting...
我试着去想亨利的愿望会是什么 and I have tried to think what Henry's wishes would be.
我记得他有一次对我说... I remember he said to me once...
“你有许多优点，艾迪丝， 对一个男人来说 "You have too much good in you, Edith, for one man.
我有时候期望别人也能分享一些” I sometimes wish that others could have a share of it."
我重新考虑过了你对我的提议... I have reconsidered the offer you made to me...
再一次感谢你， 而且很高兴地接受它 thank you again for it, and accept it glady.
你让我无话可说了 You rob me of words.
但是，我想，我们应该 至少三个月不做宣布 I think, however, we should make no announcement for three months, at least.
你认为怎么最好都行 As you think best.
在这种，嗯，新形势下... In these, uh, new circumstances...
我想我会非常乐意 你的不寻常的... I think it more than ever desirable that your unconventional...
虽然目的是很好的， 拜访能够打断 though in its purpose delightful, visit should be cut short.
如果你作为一个丈夫的关注 和你作为朋友时的体谅相等的话... If your attention as a husband is equal of your consideration as a friend...
我就是作了一个最幸运的决定 I shall have made a most fortunate decision.
但是你不认为，也许艾斯瑞德叔叔， 作为家族的首领... Do you not think, though, that perhaps Uncle Ethelred, as head of the family...
应该被马上告知吗？ should be told at once?
也许如此 是的，我会写信给他 Perhaps so. Yes, I'll write to him.
再见，路易 Good-bye, Louis.
再见，艾迪丝 Good-bye, Edith.
你把全伦敦最快乐 的男人留在了身后 You leave behind you the happiest man in London.
这不是一条消息... [ Louis Narrating ] This was not a piece of news...
我愿意拿来打击茜贝拉 Which I was looking forward to breaking to Sibella.
她与这件事情无关... She had no rights in the matter...
但是女人们有一种令人不安的能力 能让无意义的事情变得有意义... But women have a disconcerting ability to make scenes out of nothing...
在她们自己应受责备的时候 证明自己受到了伤害 And to prove themselves injured when they themselves are at fault.
[ Doorbells Jingling ]
不管怎么说，我还有三个月的平静 在我需要面对风暴之前 Anyhow, I had three months'grace before I need face that storm.
你喜欢用香精或者玫瑰吗？ Have you taken to using attar of roses?
- 不，为什么？ - 因为我可以闻出来 - No. Why? - Thought I could smell it.
我刚刚在楼梯上 遇到了一个非常美丽的女人 I met such a beautiful woman on the stairs just now.
我想那可能是 德·阿斯科内夫人 I expect that would be Mrs. D'Ascoyne.
- 她来这里做什么？ - 她过来拜访我 - What was she doing here? - She called in to see me.
- 什么事情？ - 生意，家族生意 - What about? - Business. Family business.
让我给你倒一杯雪利酒 Let me get you a glass of sherry.
一天或者几天后， 我收到了莱昂内的一封信 [ Louis Narrating ] A day or so later, I received a letter from Lionel.
他要求在他的房子面见我， 谈一些微妙的事情 一天或者几天后， 我收到了莱昂内的一封信 He requested an interview with me at his house on a matter of some delicacy. [ Louis Narrating ] A day or so later, I received a letter from Lionel.
他要求在他的房子面见我， 谈一些微妙的事情 He requested an interview with me at his house on a matter of some delicacy.
我感到有些不安， 因为十有八九... I was somewhat perturbed, for nine times out of 10...
那些被说成是微妙的事情... What is referred to as a matter of some delicacy...
事实上， 会变得极端的粗野 Is, in point of fact, one of extreme indelicacy.
两天后， 我做了一次冗长的旅行去贝沃特 Two days later I made the tedious journey to Bayswater.
住在公园错误的一边 是莱昂内的特点 It was typical of Lionel that he should live on the wrong side of the park.
你好，老朋友，来喝一杯吧 [ Slurred ] Hello, old boy. Have a drink.
不，谢谢 从不在白天喝 No, thank you. Never during the day.
你不介意我喝吧？ 驱驱寒 You don't mind if I do? Keep out the cold.
我正想说今天很暖和呢 I was about to remark on the warmth of the day.
- 只是一个笑话，老朋友 - 啊，是的 - Just a joke, old boy. - Ah, yes.
- 坐下，老朋友 - 不，谢谢，我宁愿站着 - Sit down, old boy. - No, thank you. I would rather stand.
温暖的一天，不是吗？ 我是说，对一年里这样的时候来说 A warm day, isn't it? For the time of the year, I mean.
显然 也是非常忙碌的一天 Distinctly. It's also a very busy day.
我们可以开始谈 你想见我谈的事情吗？ May we proceed to the matter about which you wished to see me?
好的，一件有些微妙的事情， 实际上，老朋友 Right. A matter of some delicacy, actually, old boy.
但是我对自己说： “路易是一个运动员和一个老练的人 But I said to myself, "Louis's a sport and a man of the world.
- 总是一个运动员” - 谢谢 - Always been a sport: " - Thank you.
总是很钦佩那种体育精神， 你用来适应茜贝拉嫁给我而不是你 Always admired the sporting way in which you took to Sibella marrying me and not you.
别人可能会 非常不同 Some fellows would have taken it very differently.
但是，“让最好的人获胜，” 你说 But "May the best man win," you said.
而当我获胜的时候， 你表现的象一个绅士 And when I won, you behaved like a gentleman.
所以我想既然... - [ Glass Clinks ] - So I thought as...
你曾经有段时间 喜欢过茜贝拉... You being keen on Sibella at one time...
而且你和我也是老朋友， 我 - 我想求你帮助我们 And you and I are old friends, I -- I'd ask you to help us.
帮助你们？ Help you?
我以前有段时间告诉过你 生意不太好 I told you some time back business hasn't been going so well.
从那时起，越来越不好 我破产了 Since then, it's gone worse. I'm bankrupt.
所以我对自己说： “为什么不去跟我的老伙伴路易·马兹尼说说呢... So I say to myself, "Why not talk to my old pal, Louis Mazzini...
“我们以前曾经有过那么欢乐的时光， 绕着老婴儿室的火光... "who we used to have such jolly times with round the old nursery fire...
烤栗子” roasting chestnuts: "
我恐怕你的记忆欺骗了你 I'm afraid your memory is deceiving you.
想象力再怎么丰富，你和我 也不会被描述为伙伴关系 By no stretch of imagination could you and I be described as ever having been pals.
如果我记得不错的话，从我们相识的 第一天起，我们就深深地厌恶对方... If I remember correctly, we detested each other cordially from the first day we met...
这种厌恶随着我们 年龄的增长与日俱增 with a detestation which increased with our years.
总是把你看成伙伴 总是那样的 Always thought of you as a pal. Always have done.
所以我对自己说- That's why I said to myself--
唯一正当的是警告你， 在这问题上再花任何精力都是一种浪费 It's only fair to warn you that any further expense of breath on this subject would be a waste.
你知道你在做什么吗？ You know what you're doing?
- 判决我死刑 - 什么意思？ - Condemning me to death. - What do you mean?
只有一条路留给我了： 弄死我自己 Only one way out for me: Do away with myself.
如果你知道这表演 听起来有多荒唐的话 - If you knew how absurd these histrionics sounded --
我保险了至少那小女人 可以得到供养 I'm insured. At least the little woman will be provided for.
- 哦，别荒谬了 - 路易，我呼吁你 - Oh, don't be ridiculous. - Louis, I appeal to you.
不是为我自己， 而是为了那小女人 Not for my sake, but for the sake of the little woman.
请从那荒唐的位置起来 - Please rise from that absurd position. - [ Sniffles ]
我所能说的是 我认-认为你是一个无赖 All I can say is I th-think you're a cad.
一个自私的无赖 A selfish cad.
让我提醒你一点 不太遥远的历史 Let me remind you of a little not-so-ancient history.
当我是布料店助理而你是一个有钱人的 儿子的时候，你没有对我显示过友好 When I was a draper's assistant and you a rich father's son, you showed me no kindness.
现在我们的位置互换了， 你来向我哭诉要求好处 Now our positions are reversed, and you come whining to me for favors.
布料店助理 是的 Draper's assistant. That's right.
没用的小伙计 你不过如此 Rotten little counterjumper. That's all you are.
现在变得非常高和有权了... Very high and mighty now...
但是你的母亲嫁给了 一个意大利风琴演员 But your mother married an Italian organ-grinder.
- 站起来 - 哼？ - Stand up. - Huh?
我说站起来 I said stand up.
我不会容忍听到你粗鄙的 舌头说我母亲的名字 I will not tolerate hearing my mother's name on your coarse tongue.
如果你听我的建议，你最好 去把你的脑袋放到冷水龙头下冲冲 If you take my advice, you'll go and put your head under a cold tap.
我拒绝自贬身份 和一个喝醉酒的畸形儿打架 I refuse to demean myself by fighting with a drunken oaf.
看起来没有必要 再继续这粗俗的怒骂... [ Louis Narrating ] There seemed no point in prolonging this vulgar brawl...
于是我回到了我的公寓 So I returned to my apartment.
- [ Door Closes ] - [ Groans ]
我洗了一个澡， 决定放松半个钟头... I took a bath and decided to relax for half an hour...
从我的记忆中抹掉 这令人不快的一幕 And efface this disagreeable scene from my memory.
[ Doorbells Jingling ]
我没能放松多长时间 I was not allowed to relax for long.
茜贝拉 Sibella.
路易，很对不起， 你一定很忙，我还来打扰你... Louis, I'm sorry to worry you when you must be so busy...
但我有一件非常重要的消息 but I have a piece of important news.
坏消息 我想你应该立刻知道这个 Bad news. I thought you ought to know it at once.
莱昂内发现了我们 Lionel has found out about us.
发现我来这儿 About me coming here.
- 真的？ - 是的 - Really? - Yes.
哦 Oh.
我昨天晚上和他发生过 最可怕的一幕 I had the most dreadful scene with him last night.
哦，我认为即使莱昂内 也不会傻到永远被骗 Well, I suppose even Lionel isn't stupid enough to be deceived forever.
等你听到这个， 你就不会这么平静了 You won't take it so calmly when you hear.
他要开始 离婚程序 He's going to start divorce proceedings.
他是多么地不通世故啊 How very unsophisticated of him.
只有一个可能 我能看得清 There's only one possible way out that I can see.
- 那是什么？ - 莱昂内还在爱着我 - And that is? - Lionel is still in love with me.
我的快乐 是他唯一关心的 My happiness is all he cares about.
他可能会做最绅士的事情， 让我提出离婚 He might do the gentlemanly thing and let me divorce him.
条件呢？ If?
如果我能够向他解释... If I were in a position to explain to him...
否则他就要危害我们的社会地位， 不只是未来的公爵... that otherwise he will be jeopardizing the social position not only of the future duke...
还有未来的查尔方特公爵夫人 but also the future duchess of Chalfont.
我明白了 I see.
你是一个聪明的小东西，茜贝拉， 但是还不够聪明 You're a clever little thing, Sibella, but not quite clever enough.
你是什么意思？ What do you mean?
我的意思是说 我所知道的你不但是在勒索我 - I mean that not only do I know that you're blackmailing me --
一个很丑陋的词， 但是唯一合适的词 - an ugly word, but the only appropriate one --
我知道你还在诈骗我 but I also know that you're bluffing me.
你诈一诈试试 Call my bluff and see.
我会的 I will.
让我解释一下，看起来似乎 你手中握着一把很好的牌... Let me explain. It must have seemed to you that you hold a very strong hand...
但是 - 一个非常重要的“但是” - but -- a very important "but" --
正巧我手里握着一张牌， 你甚至都不知道牌盒里还有这张 it so happens that I hold a card which you did not even know to be in the pack.
现在谁在诈谁？ Who's bluffing now?
正巧，不到一小时前 我跟莱昂内在一起 It so happens that I was with Lionel less than an hour ago.
非常显然的， 在他的行为和谈话中... And it was transparently clear from his demeanor and conversation...
他对于你和我之间的关系 没有任何怀疑... That he had not the faintest suspicion that you and I had any relationship...
除此之外- 正如他所说- other than that of- - as he would probably put it- -
我们是老伙伴，曾经一起围着 快乐的老婴儿室的炉火烤栗子 old pals who used to roast chestnuts together round the jolly old nursery fire.
所以，在感谢你给我荣誉的同时... So, while thanking you for the honor that you've done me...
我必须拒绝你的要求， 因为我有其他安排... I must decline your offer because I have other arrangements...
使我不可能接受它 which make it impossible for me to accept it.
也就是说？ Namely?
我马上就要宣布 我和德·阿斯科内夫人的订婚 I'm shortly going to announce my engagement to Mrs. D'Ascoyne.
我可以说我认为 你表现的很卑鄙吗？ May I say that I think you've behaved despicably?
你想起来了吗，茜贝拉， 我们互相扯平了，你和我？ Has it ever occurred to you, Sibella, that we serve each other right, you and I?
要求你护送我到门口， 是不是很过分？ Would it be asking too much of your manners to escort me to the door?
我猜想 把我们的秘密向公爵倾诉... [ Louis Narrating ] I had suspected that to confide our secret to the duke...
可能是一个灵巧的策略， 事实证明很正确... Might be an adroit maneuver, and I was proved correct...
它给我们带来了一封邀请，请艾迪丝和我 去城堡住几天 For it produced an invitation for Edith and me to spend a few days at the castle.
我必须承认我无法抑制 一种令人愉快的胜利的感觉... I must confess that I could not suppress an agreeable sensation of triumph...
当我到达 城堡大门的时候... As I approached the castle gateway...
现在情形是多么不同啊， 和我上次来这儿的时候比起来 In circumstances so different from those in which I had last done so.
那只是一次非正式的 小型家庭聚会 It was just an informal little house party.
和我们一起的客人们还有 雷德普尔女士和她女儿穆德... Our fellow guests were Lady Redpole and her daughter Maud...
她看起来名符其实， 象一头红角的牛... Who most suitably resembled nothing so much as a red poll cow...
没有任何谈话能力 And had little more conversational ability.
- 最近你去过剧院吗？ - 没有 - Did you go to the opera this season? - No.
下午的时候， 艾斯瑞德邀请我视察城堡 [ Louis Narrating ] In the afternoon, Ethelred invited me to inspect the castle.
那种感觉很好， 站在城垛上... It was pleasant to stand on the battlements...
知道所有那些土地 目力之所及... And know that the acres which stretched as far as the eye could see...
不久都将是我的 Would soon be mine.
最让我发笑的是，它包含了和我 那六便士旅游完全相同的土地 And it amused me to cover much the same ground as that of my sixpenny tour.
我从没有进过有那样 多的设备的建筑... I had never been in a building so lavishly equipped...
以及暴力死亡的器具 With the instruments of violent death.
试试那个的重量 Feel the weight of that.
我们的祖先一定 曾经是很好的人，路易 Our ancestors must have been fine men, Louis.
但是，它们似乎不能适应... [ Louis Narrating ] They seemed, however, ill-adapted...
20世纪杀人者的慎重需求 To the discreet requirements of 20th-century homicide.
那天结束的时候，发现我的主人 还很健全，而我自己还是没有主意 And the end of the day found my host still intact and myself still without a plan.
漂亮女人，艾迪丝 Beautiful woman, Edith.
你是一个幸运的家伙，路易 You're a lucky fellow, Louis.
我从没有停止过意识到这一点 I never cease to be conscious of that.
- 谢谢 - 你觉得穆德怎么样？ - Thank you. - What do you think of Maud?
哦，迷人的女孩，虽然可能有时候 她的谈话有一点，嗯，缺乏活力 Uh, charming girl, though perhaps at times her conversation is a little, uh, lacking in sparkle.
我这辈子遇到过的最笨的女人 Dullest woman I ever met in my life.
也很丑 Plain too.
但是是很好的种畜 But good breeding stock.
很好的种畜， 雷德普尔家 Good breeding stock, the Redpoles.
他们生男孩的比例特别高 And they litter a very high proportion of boys.
我猜想你的意思是 - Do I gather you to mean --
今天下午和老雷德普尔女士谈了谈 Spoke to old Lady Redpole this afternoon.
她只是很高兴能把这女孩脱手了 Only too glad to get the girl off her hands.
恭喜 My congratulations.
家族的职责，真的 Duty to the family, really.
那么，这联合，嗯， 什么时候开始？ And when does the, uh, union take place?
非常快 我不再年轻了 Very soon. I'm not growing any younger.
第一次可能得不到男孩 安静的婚礼，我想 Mightn't get a son the first time. Quiet wedding, I thought.
穆德几乎不是圣玛格丽特类型 Maud's hardly the type for St. Margaret's.
我们要去里维埃拉度蜜月， 然后去意大利 We shall honeymoon on the Riviera and then go on to Italy afterwards.
没道理用朋友们来打扰她 No sense inflicting her on one's friends.
等她有了一个家庭， 那会让她远离正路 When she's got a family, that'll keep her out of the way.
这消息让我陷入了巨大的悲痛之中... [ Louis Narrating ] This news threw me into such distress of mind...
那样，如果我在 我的领地里下毒的话... That, had I had poison in my possession...
我可能就已经让 艾斯瑞德吃了，然后... I would probably have administered it to Ethelred there and then...
就会面临被质询的危险 And chanced the consequent inquiries.
有一件事情很清楚- 如果我在处理他的事情上不成功... One thing was clear- - If I did not succeed in disposing of him...
就在这次对城堡的拜访... During this present visit to the castle...
我就很可能看到 我整个战役的毁灭 I was likely to see the ruin of my whole campaign.
我希望能有一个成功的结果 My best wishes for a successful outcome.
第二天早上 我出去和艾斯瑞德一起去打猎... The next morning I went out shooting with Ethelred...
或者更确切地说， 看艾斯瑞德打猎... Or rather, to watch Ethelred shooting...
因为我的原则不允许我 直接参与流血运动 For my principles will not allow me to take a direct part in blood sports.
- 今天早上巡视过陷阱了吗，霍斯金？ - 还没有，阁下 - Been round the traps this morning, Hoskins? - Not yet, Your Grace.
听起来我们好象在那儿捉住了一个 - Sounds as if we've bagged one there. - [ Rustling ]
啊，在最近输了很多次游戏之后， 我们又开始设置捕人陷阱 Ah. Been losing so much game lately, we've started setting the mantraps again.
霍斯金现在要痛打你 Hoskins is now going to thrash you.
然后他会让你走 Then he'll let you go.
让这给你一个教训， 别在我的土地上偷猎 Let this be a lesson to you not to poach on my land.
[ Blows Landing ]
行啦 That'll do.
不断地移动它们，霍斯金， 否则他们会告诉别人它们在哪儿 Keep moving them around, Hoskins, or they'll tell each other where they are.
是的，阁下 Yes, Your Grace.
- 我想捕人陷阱是非法的 - 是的 - I thought mantraps were illegal. - They are.
如果他告诉警察怎么办？ What happens if he tells the police?
他会因盗猎被起诉， 然后判六个月监禁 He comes up before the bench for poaching, gets six months in jail.
如果他缄口不言， 他只需要在床上躺几天 If he keeps his mouth shut, he just gets a few days in bed.
你会怎么选？ Which would you choose?
只有一个办法对付这帮无赖， 我向你保证 Only way to deal with these ruffians, I assure you.
哦，我一定是把我的雪茄烟盒 落在那儿了，我会追上你的 Oh. I must have dropped my cigarette case back there. I'll catch you up.
- 找到了吗？ - 是的，谢谢 - Find it? - Yes, thanks.
今天下午可能还要再巡视一遍， 如果你喜欢的话 Might have another walk round this afternoon, if you feel like it.
我会非常乐意的 That would be most pleasant.
午饭过后，我们出去 对一些不幸的鸟类进行大屠杀 [ Louis Narrating ] After luncheon we went out to massacre a few more unfortunate birds.
- 听 - 那是什么？ - Listen. - What is it?
我想我听到了什么东西， 好象有人跑过菜地 I thought I heard something, like someone running through the bracken.
又是一个偷猎的流氓！ 快点！ Another poaching ruffian! Come on!
这儿有什么人，看 There was someone here. Look.
该死！ - [ Trap Snaps ] - Blast!
路易，把我从这个上弄出来 快点，伙计 Louis, get me out of this. Hurry up, man.
- 你疯了吗？ - 安静，艾斯瑞德 - Have you gone mad? - Be quiet, Ethelred.
我想跟你谈一分钟 I want to talk to you for a minute.
如果你出一点声音， 我就马上轰掉你的脑袋 If you make a noise, I shall blow your head off at once.
当有人听到枪声... By the time anyone has heard the shot...
我就跑回城堡， 喊叫救命 I shall be running back toward the castle, shouting for help.
我就说是你踩在了陷阱上... I shall say that you stepped on the trap...
并且你的枪掉下去意外地走火 and that your gun went off accidentally as it fell.
所以安静 So be quiet.
为了尽量让你少受痛苦... To spare you as much pain as possible...
我来简短捷说 I'll be brief.
等我干完了， 我就要杀了你 When I've finished, I shall kill you.
你将是我杀的第六个 德·阿斯科内家的人 You'll be the sixth D'Ascoyne that I've killed.
你想知道为什么吗？ You want to know why?
为了报复德·阿斯科内家 的人对我母亲做的事情 In return for what the D'Ascoynes did to my mother.
因为她嫁给了爱情， 而不是爵位或者金钱或者土地... Because she married for love instead of for rank or money or land...
他们判决她过一种贫穷的 奴隶一样的生活... they condemned her to a life of poverty and slavery...
换句话说，他们没有公平地对待她 in a world with which they had not equipped her to deal.
你亲自拒绝了 她的临终遗愿... You yourself refused to grant her dying wish...
就是她想被埋葬在 查尔方特这里 Which was to be buried here at Chalfont.
当我看见她可怜的 小棺材滑入地下的时候... When I saw her poor little coffin slide underground...
看到她死后还象 生前一样被流放... saw her exiled in death as she'd been in life...
我发誓要报复 你们过分的傲慢 I swore to have my revenge on your intolerable pride.
那报复我已经快要完成了 That revenge I am just about to complete.
很显然你疯了 It's clear that you are insane.
立刻把那枪给我 Give me that gun at once.
不 No.
我想，从这里，伤口会看起来 和我要讲的故事一致 From here, I think, the wound should look consistent with the story that I shall tell.
救命！ Help:!
救命！救命！ Help! Help!
于是艾斯瑞德... - [ Bell Tolls ] - [ Louis Narrating ] And so Ethelred...
查尔方特公爵八世， 适时地进入了家族墓地里他的地方 Eighth duke of Chalfont, duly came to his place in the family vault.
[ Bell Tolls ]
只剩下极少数的德·阿斯科内家 的人来哀悼他... There were few D'Ascoynes left to mourn him...
我的雇主，只当了极短时间的 查尔方特公爵九世... My employer, who was ninth duke of Chalfont for the shortest possible period...
在他得知自己获得了头衔 不久就兴奋过度死了 Having expired of shock on hearing that he had succeeded to the title.
[ Bell Tolls ]
于是... 我成了 查尔方特公爵十世 And so... I became the 10th duke of Chalfont.
[ Bell Tolls ]
幸运的是，第九世公爵 在他断气前有时间... Fortunately, the ninth duke had found time before he expired...
写遗嘱把他在商业上 的利息遗赠给我 To make a will bequeathing to me his interests in the business.
[ Bells Chiming ]
你可以去掉那个 You may remove that.
一两天后， 举行了一场令人感动的小仪式... A day or two later, an affecting little feudal ceremony took place...
欢迎我进驻城堡 To welcome me into residence at the castle.
我向你们保证， 我的第一个想法... And I promise you that my first consideration...
以及德·阿斯科内夫人， 她非常赏脸地答应做我的新娘... and that of Mrs. D'Ascoyne, who has done me the honor to consent to be my bride...
就是不动产以及 住在这里的居民的福利 will be the welfare of the estate and of the people who live on it.
上帝保佑你们 - God bless you all. - [ Cheering ]
[ Cheering Continues ]
万岁，阁下！ [ Man ] Long live His Grace:!
万岁，阁下 [ Woman ] Long live His Grace.
派尼蒙，阁下， 从斯普洛克特农场来的 Pennyman, Your Grace, from Sprockett's Farm.
派尼蒙夫人 Mrs. Pennyman.
我儿子，汤姆， 从斯普洛克特农场来的 My son, Tom, from Sprockett's Farm.
威沃德先生， 从斯普洛克特农场来的 Mr. Wyvold, from Sprockett's Farm.
斯普洛克特农场？ Sprockett's Farm?
不，阁下 从苏格兰场〔伦敦警察厅〕来的 No, Your Grace. From Scotland Yard.
苏格兰场？ Scotland Yard?
一件有些微妙的事情 A matter of some delicacy.
[ Indistinct ]
请跟我来 Follow me, please.
这打击太突然了， 我发现很难把我的思想集中 [ Louis Narrating ] The blow was so sudden that I found it hard to collect my thoughts.
会是他们中的哪一个呢？ Which of them could it be?
小阿斯科内？ 亨利？艾斯瑞德？ Young Ascoyne? Henry? Ethelred?
牧师？ 将军？ The parson? The general?
阿加莎女士？ 或者是他们所有人？ Lady Agatha? Or could it be all of them?
- 好 - 你是，我认为，查尔方特公爵阁下？ - Now. - You are, I take it, His Grace, the duke of Chalfont?
- 我是 - 我是勃格内侦查探员... - I am. - I am Detective Inspector Burgoyne...
来自犯罪调查部 of the Criminal Investigation Department.
我有一张起诉你 谋杀罪的逮捕令 And I hold a warrant for your arrest on a charge of murder.
谋杀？ Murder?
谋杀莱昂内·霍兰德先生- Of murdering Mr. Lionel Holland at- -
- 谋杀谁？ - 莱昂内·霍兰德先生... - Murdering whom? - Mr. Lionel Holland...
在科诺特广场242号， 贝沃特... At number 242 Connaught Square, Bayswater...
于十月十七日 on the 17th of October last.
[ Cheering ]
我完全迷惑了， 我试着了解是什么一系列的事件... [ Louis Narrating ] Utterly bewildered, I tried to fathom what series of events...
会令人信服地导致 这并不好玩的讽刺 Could conceivably have led to this not-very-amusing irony.
我只能猜测是莱昂内 真地实行了... I could only suppose that Lionel had actually carried out...
那个威胁要自杀的醉话 That drunken threat of suicide.
但那怎么能怪到我头上呢？ But how then had the blame fallen on me?
独处的时间和审判 也许会揭开谜底 Time alone- -and the trial- - would reveal the answer.
看到没有原因 执行我爵位的其他特权... Seeing no reason to forego any of the available privileges of my rank...
我申请在上议院接受审判 I exercised my right to be tried before the House of Lords.
路易·德·阿斯科内·马兹尼，查尔方特公爵... [ Man ] Louis D'Ascoyne Mazzini, duke of Chalfont...
你，作为英格兰的贵族， 被指控犯谋杀罪 you, as a peer of England, are indicted for murder.
你怎么说，阁下？ How say you, Your Grace?
你对于你被控的重罪 是有罪还是无罪？ Are you guilty of the felony with which you are charged or not guilty?
- 无罪 - 你将怎样被审判？ - Not guilty. - How will you be tried?
- 被上帝和贵族们 - 上帝送给阁下一个好的判决 - By God and my peers. - God send Your Grace a good deliverance.
那就是真话，完全是真话， 只有真话... It shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth...
上帝保佑 so help me God.
霍兰德夫人，你能不能用 你自己的话告诉法官大人们... Mrs. Holland, will you tell Their Lordships in your own words...
你和你丈夫谈话的内容... The substance of the conversation you had with your husband...
在他死之前那个晚上？ the evening before his death?
他告诉我路易 - 被告- He told me that Louis -- the prisoner--
第二天要来看他， 讨论一件非常微妙的事情 was coming to see him the next day on a rather delicate matter.
他有没有指出那是什么事情？ Did he indicate what that matter was?
他已经发现 被告和我有 - He had discovered that the prisoner and I had been --
有不正当关系？ Had been on terms of intimacy?
- 是的 - 那么他的态度是什么？ - Yes. - And what was his attitude?
他感觉正确的事情是... - [ Crowd Murmuring ] - He felt that the correct thing to do...
当面告诉他 他要开始离婚程序 was to tell him to his face that he intended to start proceedings for divorce.
从你对被告的了解... [ Man ] From your knowledge of the prisoner...
你认为他在得知 那消息后会怎么样？ How would you expect him to receive that news?
我想他会非常愤怒 I should expect him to be very angry.
他现在是公爵爵位的继承人， 我对他来说没用了 Now he was heir to a dukedom, he had no more use for me.
我明白了他试图抛弃你 I see. He was trying to discard you.
- 是的 - 霍兰德夫人... - Yes. - Mrs. Holland...
我很抱歉让你经受如此的折磨... I apologize for submitting you to this ordeal...
但是你能不能告诉法官大人们 你是如何发现你丈夫的尸体的？ but will you tell Their Lordships how you found your husband's body?
我回到家大约是4:30 I came back about half past 4:00.
- [ Whimpers ] - [ Crowd Murmuring ]
法官大人们不反对 证人坐下 [ Man #2 ] Their Lordships have no objection to the witness being seated.
是的，霍兰德夫人？ Yes, Mrs. Holland?
我大约四点半回来的 I came back about half past 4:00.
我进到我丈夫的书房 I went into my husband's study.
他躺在地板上... He was lying on the floor...
胸上插着一把匕首 with a dagger stuck in his chest.
最后一个问题， 霍兰德夫人 One last question, Mrs. Holland.
你丈夫曾经，在任何时候， 威胁说要自杀吗？ Had your husband ever, at any time, threatened suicide?
- 从来没有 - 谢谢你，霍兰德夫人 - Never. - Thank you, Mrs. Holland.
我的客户恳请大人们允许... My client craves Their Lordships' permission...
由他本人和证人交叉讯问 to cross-examine the witness himself.
大人们同意请求 Their Lordships grant their permission.
霍兰德夫人，你明白 发誓的意义吗？ Mrs. Holland, you understand the meaning of being on oath?
当然 Of course.
你意识到一条生命 取决于你的证据的真实性吗？ You realize that a life may depend upon the truthfulness of your evidence?
是的 Yes.
我认为你所说的关于 你和你丈夫的对话的故事... I put it to you that your story of your conversation with your husband...
在他死前那个晚上， 是一个完全的虚构 on the night before his death is a complete fabrication.
不是 It is not.
我认为 你丈夫是蓄意自杀 I put it to you that your husband committed suicide.
他决不会那样做， 而不留一点口信给我 He would never have done that without leaving a message for me.
你能发誓说他没有吗？ Can you swear that he did not?
警察完全彻底地搜查了屋子 The police searched the room very thoroughly.
他们没有发现任何东西 They didn't find anything.
我认为你的证据全是谎言， 出于报复的动机 I suggest that your evidence is a tissue of lies dictated by motives of revenge.
不是的 [ Sobbing ] It is not.
不是的 It is not.
我假定犯人在这些 屈服之中有某种意图... I presume that the prisoner has some purpose in these submissions...
不同于证人的悲伤 other than that of distressing the witness.
我的意图，大人， 就是确定真相 My purpose, my lord, is to determine the truth.
那个，阁下， 正是这法庭的所有目的 That, Your Grace, is the whole purpose of this assembly.
...全是真话，只有真话， 上帝保佑 ...the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God.
- 你是艾迪丝·德·阿斯科内·马兹尼，查尔方特公爵夫人？ - 我是 - You're Edith D'Ascoyne Mazzini, duchess of Chalfont? - I am.
你是什么时间什么地点 成为被告妻子的？ When and where did you become the wife of the accused?
昨天早晨，在彭顿威拉监狱 - Yesterday morning, in Pentonville Prison. - [ Crowd Murmuring ]
我想在全世界面前 展示我不可撤回的... I wanted to publish irrevocably before the whole world...
对他的无辜的信任 my faith in his innocence.
我想通过我的婚姻显示... I wanted to show by my marriage...
虽然他被带入歧途， 但我相信... that though he was led astray, as I believe...
通过他先天的亲切与礼貌... by that innate kindliness and courtesy of his...
使他很难拒绝一个女人的要求... which made it so hard for him to rebuff the advances of a woman...
可是我还是把他 看成一个男人... I nevertheless regard him as a man...
我可以幸福地把后半生委托给他 To whom I can happily entrust the remainder of my life.
在关于他的这些观点中， 我并不孤立 I am not alone in these opinions of him.
我已故的丈夫，亨利， 还有他已故的叔叔艾斯瑞德，第八世公爵 - My late husband, Henry, and his late Uncle Ethelred, the eighth duke --
很不幸都不能在今天出庭作证 both unfortunately unable to testify today.
这些以及其他德·阿斯科内家族的成员， 如果他们都还活着... These and other members of the D'Ascoyne family, had they been alive...
我知道，他们会响应 我说的每一句话 Would, I know, have echoed every word that I have said.
谢谢，阁下 [ Man ] Thank you, Your Grace.
死者是一家银行的客户... The deceased was a client of the banking house...
- 你是银行的主席和常务董事 - 是的 - of which you are chairman and managing director. - He was.
在生意交往的通常情况下... In the normal course of business transactions...
- 他会来你的办公室见你 - 是的 - he would have come to see you at your office. - Yes.
- 而不是，他请你去他的家 - 是的 - Instead of which, he asked you to go to his house. - Yes.
- 而他邀请你去他家谈生意 - 是的 - He invited you to his house to discuss business. - Yes.
而你要法官大人们相信这个？ And you ask Their Lordships to believe that?
- 是的 - 在这个，嗯，谈生意过程中... - Yes. - In the course of this, uh, business discussion...
他嚎啕痛哭，跪下来 威胁说要自杀 he burst into tears, fell on his knees and threatened suicide.
- 是的 - 那经常发生在谈生意过程中吗？ - Yes. - Is that usual in business discussions?
- 不经常不 - 但在那个时刻发生了 - Not usual. No. - But it happened on this occasion.
- 是的 - 而你要法官大人们相信那个？ - Yes. - And you ask Their Lordships to believe that?
- 是的 - 那么这个，嗯，谈生意... - Yes. - Then this, uh, business discussion...
变得非常热烈， 开始互相扭打... became so heated that blows were exchanged...
- 而他试图谋杀你 - 是的 - and he made a murderous attack on you. - Yes.
- 那经常发生在谈生意中吗？ - 不 - Is that usual in business discussion? - No.
- 但在那个时刻发生了 - 是的 - But it happened on this occasion. - Yes.
- 而你要法官大人们相信那个？ - 是的 - And you ask Their Lordships to believe that? - Yes.
非常好 Very well.
你一定听说过，一个吃醋的丈夫和 他妻子的情夫之间发生殴打的事情吧？ You've heard of cases of a jealous husband and his wife's lover coming to blows?
- 是的 - 经常吗？ - Yes. - Frequently?
那是低俗小说里的陈词滥调 - It is one of the cliches of the cheaper kind of fiction. - [ Spectators Chuckling ]
我提出请你考虑， 在这案子里，它发生了... I put it to you that, in this case, it happened...
不是在小说里， 而是事实上 not in fiction, but in fact.
- 我提出请你考虑，那没发生 - 我还要再提出请你考虑... - I put it to you that it did not. - I put it to you further...
由于那时你不知道 你未来妻子的宽容天性... That being unaware at that time of your future wife's forgiving nature...
你假定如果你在一桩 离婚官司里被传讯的话... you assumed that if you were cited in a divorce suit...
那会毁了你的机会... it would ruin your chances of making this advantageous match...
娶一位富有而漂亮的女士 with a wealthy and beautiful woman.
不，完全不是 No. Not at all.
- 并且，你还计划抛弃霍兰德夫人 - 没有 - Still, you were proposing to discard Mrs. Holland. - No.
即使你准备要娶另一名女士？ Even though you were about to be married to the other lady?
我必须承认对他们的决定 感到非常阴谋 I must confess to feeling quite intrigued as to their decision.
大人们，对你们的问题是这样的： My lords, the question for Your Lordships is this:
犯人是有罪... Is the prisoner guilty...
在他被指控的重罪上... of the felony whereof he stands indicted...
还是无罪？ or not guilty?
有罪，我担保 Guilty, upon mine honor.
我认为我亲爱的妻子来 探望我是适宜的和感动的... I considered it both seemly and touching that my dear wife should visit me...
如她今天早晨做的那样， 做她的告别 as she did this morning, to make her farewells.
你的到达，另一方面来说， 对我来说是不体面的... Your arrival, on the other hand, appears to me unseemly...
而且极端的无味 and tasteless in the extreme.
我无法忍受想看你最后一眼， 当你给我那样憎恨的一眼... I couldn't bear my last sight of you to be that look of hatred you gave me...
当你走出法庭的时候 as you went out from the trial.
鉴于你的证据已经把绞索 套在我脖子上这个事实... In view of the fact that your evidence had put the rope round my neck...
你很难指望 得到温柔的一瞥 you could hardly expect a glance of warm affection.
- 没有任何希望了吗？ - 还能有什么希望？ - Isn't there any hope? - What hope could there be?
我只是在想 I was only thinking.
审判的时候你问的那个问题... That question you asked at the trial...
关于莱昂内留下了一张自杀的纸条 about Lionel leaving a suicide note.
假定他做了？ 假定那纸条被发现了... Suppose he did? Suppose that one were found...
即使是现在， 这最后一个晚上？ even now, this last evening?
- 那会是奇迹的滋味 - 奇迹会发生 - It would savor of a miracle. - Miracles can happen.
奇迹应该发生 Miracles could happen.
我明白了 I see.
哦，奇怪，不是吗， 事情是怎么转变的？ Oh. Strange, isn't it, how things turn out?
好，如果你娶的是我， 而不是艾迪丝 - Now, if you had married me, instead of Edith --
或者你嫁的是我， 而不是莱昂内 Or you had married me, instead of Lionel.
他可能还活着，而你也不会 在明天早上被吊死 He would still be alive, and you wouldn't be going to be hanged tomorrow morning.
当然，除非你还谋杀了 别的什么人 [ Chuckles ] Unless, of course, you've murdered somebody else.
- 所有这些都离题太远了，不是吗？ - 是吗？ - All of which is rather beside the point, isn't it? - Is it?
你还记得小时候... Do you remember in the old days...
我们是怎么玩 剪刀，锤子，布的吗？ how we used to play eeny, meeny, miny, mo?
- 抓住一个黑鬼的大脚趾 - 如果他大喊，就让他走，他出局了 - Catch a nigger by his toe. - If he hollers, let him go. Out goes he.
有许多小黑鬼出局了， 不是吗，这样或者那样？ Quite a lot oflittle niggers have gone out, haven't they, one way or another?
他们中的每一个都是 德·阿斯科内家的人 And every one of them a D'Ascoyne.
嗯，我们家族的人看起来 真的好象是都非常短命 Mmm. We do seem to be a very short-lived family.
当然，艾迪丝只是通过婚姻 才成为了德·阿斯科内家的人... Of course, Edith is only a D'Ascoyne by marriage...
所以我想 她的前景会好一些 so I suppose her prospects are better.
除非出现一个奇迹 Except for a miracle.
就象我们刚才谈的那一个 Like the other one we were talking about.
那么会有的 她会找到自杀纸条的... [ Louis Narrating ] So there it was. She would find the suicide note...
如果我，作为回报， 谋杀了艾迪丝 If I, in return, would murder Edith.
那么我们现在脑子里 就有两个奇迹了，是吗？ So we now have two miracles in mind, do we?
是的 Yes.
我在想它们，在某种意义上， 是不是互相关联的？ I wonder if they are, in any way, dependent on each other?
我想也许它们是有关联的 I suppose perhaps they might be.
你认为怎么样？ What do you think?
时间到 Time's up.
你认为怎么样？ What do you think?
可怜的艾迪丝，我恐怕这会 夺去她很多年的生命 Poor Edith. I'm afraid all this is going to take years off her life.
- 再见，路易 - 再见 - Au revoir, Louis. - Au revoir.
我除了接受以外还能做什么？ [ Louis Narrating ] What could I do but accept?
总之，我总还可以 以后再决定... After all, I could always decide afterwards...
这两个小黑鬼哪一个 最后必须要走 Which of these two little niggers would finally have to go.
亲爱的艾迪丝 Dear Edith.
迷人的茜贝拉 Captivating Sibella.
她们是多么地不同， 而我又是多么地了解她们 How different they were, and how well I knew each of them.
“或许只是我这么认为吧 [ Reading ] "Or so I thought.
“但是晚上过去了， 什么也没有发生 "But the night has gone by and nothing has happened.
“现在只差几分就到8:00了 "It is now but a few minutes to 8:00.
“我意识到茜贝拉 昨天的来访纯粹只是逗弄我... "And I realize that Sibella came yesterday merely to tantalize...
“燃起我的希望， 然后再毁灭它 "to raise my hopes in order to dash them again.
“和我猜想的有多不同啊 "How unlike me not to have guessed.
但，不管怎么说， 和茜贝拉有多么象啊” But, after all, how very like Sibella."
[ Footsteps Approaching ]
已经到了吗？ Already?
我将告诉你时间依然飞逝 I'll tell you who time gallops withal.
“对于一个梁上君子来说 "With a thief to the gallows.
“虽然他尽量轻轻踏步... "For though he tread as softly as foot can fall...
他认为自己到那儿太快” he thinks himself too soon there."
如果你有任何最后指示 - If you have any last instructions --
我想，上校，只有 谢谢你的许多关照 I think, Colonel, it only remains to thank you for your many kindnessess.
你不介绍我们的朋友吗？ Won't you introduce our friend?
艾略特先生， 查尔方特公爵阁下 Mr. Elliott, His Grace, the duke of Chalfont.
早上好，阁下 Good morning, Your Grace.
这不会花太长时间 This won't take a moment.
首先，如果阁下 原谅我的冒失... First, if Your Grace will pardon the liberty...
我愿意读一些诗篇... I should like to read some verses...
是我自己写的， 用于这些忧郁的场合 composed by myself for use on these melancholy occasions.
- 阁下允许吗？ - 非常高兴 - Your Grace permits? - With pleasure.
“我的朋友，思考” - [ Clears Throat ] "My friend, reflect" --
哦哦对不起 Oh. Oh. Pardon.
“阁下，思考 "Your Grace, reflect.
“当临终的呼吸到来... "While yet of mortal breath some span...
“虽然很短，但是留给你... "however short, is left to thee...
“生与死之间是多么短暂... "how brief the total span twixt birth and death...
“你在永生的时间多么漫长 "how long thy coming tenure of eternity.
阁下，准备” - Your Grace, prepare" --
[ Hurried Footsteps Approaching ]
- 上校 - 嗯？ - Colonel. - Hmm?
[ Whispering ]
阁下， 我很高兴地通知你... Your Grace, I am happy to inform you...
我们刚刚接到内政部的一个电话 that a telephone communication has just been received from the Home Office.
找到了一张纸条， 毫无疑问是霍兰德先生的笔迹... A note has been found, undoubtedly in Mr. Holland's handwriting...
表达了他想自杀的意愿 expressing his intention to commit suicide.
真是一个奇迹 It is a miracle.
是的真象是一个奇迹 Yes. It is like a miracle.
等待收到进一步指示之前... Pending receipt of further instructions...
我会让你在我的领地里 尽量舒适 I will try to make you reasonably comfortable in my quarters.
- 早上好 - 早上好，阁下，先生 - Good morning. - Good morning, Your Grace, sir.
我向你保证我从来没有 象从官差上卸任下来这样快乐了 I assure you I have never been more happy to be relieved of an official duty.
可怜的艾略特 Poor Elliott.
如果他没有坚持 读那首讨厌的诗的话... If he had not insisted on reading that abominable poem...
在消息到达之前 我可能早已优雅地挂在绳子那端了 he would have had me neatly dangling at the end of his rope before the news arrived.
- 哼 - 他非常期待那样 - Huh. - He was so looking forward to it.
我明白，阁下， 据在外面值勤的人说... I understand, Your Grace, from the men on duty outside...
有一大群人等着看你离开 that a large crowd awaits your leaving.
已经剥夺了他们 看我死的乐趣... Having robbed them of the pleasure of my death...
至少我能让他们看到我还活着 the least I can do is to let them see me alive.
顺便说一下，包括， 不只是公爵夫人阁下... Including, by the way, not only Her Grace, the duchess...
还有霍兰德夫人 but also Mrs. Holland.
哦 Oh.
那首歌怎么唱来着？ “我是多么快乐，不管... How does the song go? "How happy could I be with either...
是跟这个还是那个亲爱的离开” were tother dear charmer away."
- 哦 - 好，再见 - Oh. [ Chuckles ] - Well, good-bye.
再见，阁下 Good-bye, Your Grace.
[ Crowd Cheering ]
[ Cheering Continues ]
“我是多么快乐，不管... [ Thinking ] "How happy could I be with either...
是跟这个还是那个亲爱的离开” were tother dear charmer away."
- 阁下. - 什么？ - Your Grace. - Yes?
我代表珍品杂志... I represent the magazine Titbits...
他们委托我向你提议... By whom I'm commissioned to approach you...
要你的回忆录的出版权 for the publication rights of your memoirs.
我的回忆录？ My memoirs?
哦，我的回忆录 Oh, my memoirs.
我的回忆录 My memoirs.
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