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第55部分(第2页)

〃What does matter then?〃 came her Uncle Toms intimate;

caressing; half…jeering voice。

She turned to him。

〃It matters whether people have courage or not;〃 she

said。

〃Courage for what?〃 asked her uncle。

〃For everything。〃

Tom Brangwen gave a sharp little laugh。 The mother and father

sat silent; with listening faces。 Skrebensky waited。 She was

speaking for him。

〃Everythings nothing;〃 laughed her uncle。

She disliked him at that moment。

〃She doesnt practice what she preaches;〃 said her father;

stirring in his chair and crossing one leg over the other。 〃She

has courage for mighty little。〃

But she would not answer。 Skrebensky sat still; waiting。 His

face was irregular; almost ugly; flattish; with a rather thick

nose。 But his eyes were pellucid; strangely clear; his brown

hair was soft and thick as silk; he had a slight moustache。 His

skin was fine; his figure slight; beautiful。 Beside him; her

Uncle Tom looked full…blown; her father seemed uncouth。 Yet he

reminded her of her father; only he was finer; and he seemed to

be shining。 And his face was almost ugly。

He seemed simply acquiescent in the fact of his own being; as

if he were beyond any change or question。 He was himself。 There

was a sense of fatality about him that fascinated her。 He made

no effort to prove himself to other people。 Let it be accepted

for what it was; his own being。 In its isolation it made no

excuse or explanation for itself。

So he seemed perfectly; even fatally established; he did not

asked to be rendered before he could exist; before he could have

relationship with another person。

This attracted Ursula very much。 She was so used to unsure

people who took on a new being with every new influence。 Her

Uncle Tom was always more or less what the other person would

have him。 In consequence; one never knew the real Uncle Tom;

only a fluid; unsatisfactory flux with a more or less consistent

appearance。

But; let Skrebensky do what he would; betray himself

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