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【原著共读】《The Tell-Tale Heart 》(7)

发表于2020-09-07 2496次查看

The officers were satisfied.

My manner had convinced them.

I was singularly at ease.

They sat, and while I answered cheerily, they chatted of familiar things.

But, ere long,  I felt myself getting pale and wished them gone.

My head ached, and I fancied a ringing in my ears: but still they sat and still chatted.

The ringing became more distinct: ---It continued and became more distinct: I talked more freely to get rid of the feeling: but it continued and gained definiteness---until, at length, I found that the noise was not within my ears.

No doubt I now grew very pale; ---but I talked more fluently, and with a heightened voice.

Yet the sound increased---and what could I do?

It was a low, dull quick sound---much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton.

I gasped for breath---and yet the officeres heard it not.

I talked more quickly---more vehenently; but the noise steadily increased.

I arose and argued about trifles, in a high key and with violent gesticulations; but the noise steadily increased.

Why could they not be gone?

I paced the floor to the fro with heavy strides, as if excited to fury by the obsevations of the men---but the noise steadily increased.

Oh God!

What could I do?

I foamed---I raved---I swore!

I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting, and grated it upon the boards, but the noise arose over all and continually increased.

It grew lourder---louder---luoder!

And still the men chatted pleasantly, and smiled.

Was it possible they heard not?

Almighty God!---no, no!

They heard!---they suspected!---they knew!---they were making a mockery of my horror!---this I thought, and this I think.

But anything was better than this agony!

Anything was more tolerable than this decision!

I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer!

I felt that I must scream or die! and now---again!---hark! louder! louder! louder!

 

"Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemle no more! I admit the deed!---tear up the planks! here, here!---It is the beating of his hideous heart!"

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  • 2楼 Cao 2020-09-07

    最后一章结束了

    爱伦·坡的短篇《泄密的心》就到此收尾

    有点累,晚上再修改吧

  • 3楼 Cao 2020-09-07

    这个系列的帖子是为了学习平台上《美国短篇小说选读》的课程而做的准备。

    因为纯手打,很多地方不可避免地会有错漏,所以可以直接去课程中阅读原文

    链接:https://moocs.unipus.cn/my/course/758

  • 4楼 Echo 2020-09-07

    本案有几个疑点(叼烟斗):

    首先,从文中的描写来看,主人公应该是把Old man肢解了

    那为何屋内没有血迹呢?

    其次,就算没有血迹,血腥味也是会有的,怎么可能警察毫无知觉呢

  • 5楼 Echo 2020-09-07

    这个短篇很明显,是以主人公第一人称的角度来记叙的

    那其面向的读者群体是谁呢?

    主人公是在向谁叙述呢?警察吗?还是内心的自白?

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