I rode towards the fire, turned a corner or two on the road, and came to a burning church. The steeple on the roof was on fire, but the wall was not damaged yet. My horse went to the front door of the church and walked down the aisle. I took the ring pouch from my pocket and put it on the altar, and then I stood there in the thick smoke and dazzling fire. The roof wood fell around me with flames. I was waiting for the groom in front of the altar. I think I should let myself die in the fire.
在这时一个人从门外冲了进来他衣胡乱穿在身手里拿着一夸脱装酒瓶剩瓶底一英寸在火中发金黄色泽他说你在这里干什么快去
我猜是尊心促我说己从这里路过进来看看能帮什么忙
哦快去他说
我他一起走了去我们决意要把教堂从火中救来尽管他已经喝醉了而我还些心神恍惚我们尽己能他酒瓶从附近小溪打水蹲在溪边等着水从细细瓶口咕嘟咕嘟灌满然后一起走回教堂每次将一夸脱水浇在火其说是想把火扑灭倒不说是了一旦人问起可说我们已经尽力了当黎来临那人我都是一脸碳黑地剩一大摊灰烬
哎就这样了除了合叶门把手都烧了个精光那人说
是啊我说
我们已经尽力而了
绝对是
谁也不能怪我们没尽到努力
对谁也不能我说
他把瓶中最后剩几滴水洒在灰堆旁被火烧焦草然后将瓶揣进外衣口袋沿着路走了我马返回查尔斯敦
一星期后我乘船去了英国接来一年中我没做什么事情是四处游荡参观老教堂欣赏古画回国后我发现你母亲已经结婚丈夫就是那天在门廊她呆在一起那个男人他是个法国葡萄酒中商德舒特业联她跟他到法国定居一扇门就这样闭了
I have always been interested in soul matters, so that I can get rid of my family business and become a priest. It is both disheartening and unpleasant, and I have never regretted this decision.
One spring day 19 years later, I happened to find that Claire had returned from France alone. She had no children and her husband was dead. It was credible that their marriage was not very happy. The fact is that the little Frenchman, who was full of pain, fulfilled my most private dream.
A few days after I learned the news, I went to the warehouse on the Cooper River to meet De Shute again. He is now an old man with a huge belly and a loose jaw, and my hair on both sides of the temple has gone bald and my temples are gray. He looked at me with a look of arrogance. The word can best illustrate what he said. Can I help you? That tone in the past may cause a duel.
I say we continue to finish this matter, but I don’t want anything wrong this time.
That autumn, I married your mother. I was very happy two years after marriage. I think she was also very happy. Her ex-husband, the little French man, was unsatisfactory. He blamed her for being grumpy because she had no children. I took it as my responsibility to compensate her for every bit of neglect and humiliation.
Those few months after knowing you seemed to be a rare gift to an old and bumpy couple like us. When Lyle died in childbirth, I could hardly believe that the emperor abandoned us so quickly. I could hardly be a good neighbor for several weeks. After you found a wet nurse, I fell ill. When I got up again, I decided that I would live as you in the future.
Dad got up and walked to the back of his chair, brushed his hair from his forehead to the back of his head and kissed him on the top of his head. I don’t know what to say. She was stunned by the story of her birth. Ada was the product of a dull and wrong marriage, but it turned out to be a long-term loved one crystallization after setbacks. She couldn’t easily clear her new position for a while.
When Ida’s story is finished, it’s almost dark. On the east side of the clouds, the moon is shrouded in dense fog. One bird flies high over the surface of the moon, then another one, and then more and more people fly by in droves. This is some night flying birds, maybe snipes, on the way to the south. The stars haven’t come yet, but two stars shine in the indigo night near the rolling peaks of the cold mountain in the west.
The blue one is brighter than Venus. Ida said that Ruby turned to the path to Blackditch.
Live like a cockfight
In the afternoon, Inman Weixi passed the thick trunk road of a newly sawed hickory tree and lay on the ground in parallel. Next to it, there was a long cross-cutting saw blade painted with oil and no rust, and it was polished and shiny soon.
Look there, Vichy. Nobody wants to saw it. I can get a good price.
He went over and picked up the saw. Inman said that the loggers had just gone to dinner and they would come back soon to saw the tree and break it.
I don’t know. I know I found the saw by the roadside.
Vichy picked up the saw, put it on her shoulder and continued on her way. At every step, the wooden handles at both ends shook wide and long, and the saw blade buzzed like a single-spring harmonica.
I’ll sell the saw to the first person we met, said Weixi.
You seem to be very casual about other people’s property. I’d like to know how you got away with it in your sermon, Inman said
You are mistaken. When it comes to property, the emperor is not so strict. He doesn’t care about property at all, and this prejudice is everywhere. This is especially evident from the fact that the fire from heaven caused floods. Have you ever seen the emperor’s property punish evil and promote good and righteousness?
No, I didn’t realize it was that obvious
Exactly, what I want to say is that if one intends to live according to the teachings of Confucian classics, one should not pay too much attention to such a trivial matter as who the saw is, which will interfere with the grand goal.
Great goal Inman looked at the priest with scabs on his head, his eyes cut by that powerful prostitute, and he was wounded by Inman pistol by Dipper River. You were taught a lesson and your mouth was hurt, but you said great goals. He said that it seems that every beating is very appropriate.
I’m not saying that I don’t need to be beaten. Vichy said that many people were beaten worse than me, but I’m not going to be beaten easily again.
Speaking of which, he remembered the question of health, and he said, show me your big pistol.
No, Inman said
Come on, it’s not bad.
impossible
I think it is suitable for a gunman’s weapon.
It’s too big and too heavy. Inman said what you need is a navy pistol, a colt or a Starr. It’s light and fast.
I think you should give me my gun back.
I plan to tell you when we meet.
We said when we would suddenly split up, and Vichy said, then I’m not without weapons
Then the world would be quiet.
They talked and walked to a Gleditsia sinensis tree that stretched obliquely to the road. Because there was nothing better to eat, they picked brown dry pods from the tree and filled their pockets. They continued on their way. Their thumb nails cut off the pods and scraped their teeth to eat sweet white cotton-like substances. After a while, they saw a man at the bottom of the slope in front of them, who seemed to be meditating on the scene before them. The most conspicuous thing was that a huge black bull fell dead in a stream. When he saw them passing by, he called them and asked two brothers if they could help him climb the hill from the road. Weixi put the saw on the side of the road and followed.
Beside that man, they watch the swollen bull, the brook slaps its belly, and the cow’s mouth and buttocks are covered with black flies. They all embrace their arms and eyes and face a worker with a headache.
That man is not really old, but it is not far away. He is thick and round. Most male mammals from apes to horses will become like this in their later years. He wears an old black wool hat with a conical top. Although the weather is not very cold, he pulls the wide brim to his ears with hemp rope. It looks like wearing a bonnet, thick and thick with sideburns, and his eyes grow until his jaws are black. Peering out from the shadow of the brim, his thick eyelids are half closed like a raptor. His mouth is small and round, reminding Inman of seeing a raw one in the short period of the seaside war at the beginning of the war.
Next to a tree, leaning against a single barrel shotgun with a quantity of 10 rounds, the barrel was sawed short. It seems that I want to get a wider scattering surface, but some of them are too short to be true. The sawing tool must be clumsy, too. Is the incision uneven or oblique?
How are you going to get it? asked Vichy.