14 Huck’s Confession

CHAPTER 14 Huck's Confession The king and the duke woke me up early the next morning. I could tell from their faces that there was trouble. "Were you in my room last night or the night before?" the king asked. "No, your majesty," I said. "Have you seen anybody else go in there?" the duke asked. I pretended to think for a while and then I told

第十四章哈克的忏悔第二天一大早，国王和公爵就把我叫醒了。 从他们的表情我可以看出有麻烦了。 “昨天晚上还是前天晚上，你在我房间里吗？”国王问道。 “不，陛下，”我说。 “你看见别人进去了吗？”公爵问。 我假装想了一会儿，然后说了出来

them I'd seen some of the slaves go into the king's room a few times. Both of them gave a little jump and looked like they had never expected that. Then their expressions changed and they looked like they had expected the slaves to take the money. "Great guns, this is a go!" the king said. Both of them looked pretty sick and silly. They stood there thinking and scratching their heads for a minute. Then the duke burst into a kind of raspy little chuckle. They talked about how smart those slaves were. I asked if anything was wrong. Well they got very mad at me for asking that and for not telling them I'd seen the slaves going into the king's room. The slaves had left the house the day before when news had spread that the men were going to auction off all the property. I knew the two men didn't want to tell me the money was gone. They didn't think I knew they had the money in the first place! They didn't

我看到一些奴隶进过几次国王的房间。 他们俩都吓了一跳，似乎完全没想到会这样。 然后他们的表情发生了变化，看起来他们已经预料到奴隶们会拿走钱。 “天哪，这是一次行动！”国王说。 他们俩看上去都很不舒服，很傻。 他们站在那里想了一会儿，摸不着头脑。 公爵突然发出一种刺耳的轻笑。 他们谈论那些奴隶有多聪明。 我问是否出了什么事。 他们非常生气，因为我问了这个问题，也因为我没有告诉他们我看到奴隶们进入了国王的房间。 奴隶们在前一天离开了房子，因为有消息说他们要拍卖所有的财产。 我知道那两个人不想告诉我钱不见了。 他们以为我一开始就不知道他们有钱！他们没有

think I knew any of their plans to rob the girls. The next day I saw Mary Jane crying. When I went to talk to her, she told me that she was upset about leaving her home. She said she was excited to be going to England soon, but it made her sad to leave her home. Well, seeing her cry like that and seeing that she believed those two frauds were really her uncles, I just couldn't keep lying to her. "I've got to tell the truth," I said. "You'll want to brace up, Miss Mary, because it's a bad kind. It's going to be hard to take, but there's no help for it. These uncles of yours aren't uncles at all. They're a couple of frauds—regular dead-beats." It surprised her, of course, but I was over the worst of it now so I went right along and told her every last detail. I described everything that had happened from the time we met that young fool on the steamboat clear through to when she hugged and kissed the king the day she met him. Then, with her face red like sunset, she stood

我不知道他们抢劫女孩的计划。 第二天，我看见玛丽·简在哭。 当我去找她谈话时，她告诉我她对离开家感到不安。 她说很快就要去英国了，她很兴奋，但离开家使她很难过。 好吧，看到她那样哭，看到她相信那两个骗子是她的叔叔，我不能再对她撒谎了。 “我必须说实话，”我说。 “你得打起精神来，玛丽小姐，因为这是一种不好的病。 这很难接受，但也没办法。 你的这些叔叔根本就不是叔叔。 他们是两个骗子——通常都是死鬼。” 当然，这让她很吃惊，但我现在已经度过了最糟糕的时期，所以我径直走过去，把每一个细节都告诉了她。 我描述了发生的一切，从我们在汽船上遇见那个年轻的傻瓜，一直到她见到国王那天拥抱和亲吻国王。 然后，她脸红得像日落一样，站了起来

and said: "The brute! Come, don't waste a minute—not a second. We'll have them tarred and feathered and flung in the river!" "Well," I said, "it's a rough gang, those two frauds. And I've got to travel with them a while longer, whether I want to or not. I'd rather not tell you why. If you were to tell on them, this town would get me out of their claws. I'd be all right, but there'd be another person that you don't know about who'd be in big trouble. Well, we've got to save him, don't we? Of course. Well, then, we can't tell on them yet." Talking to her, I had an idea of how I could lose those two frauds. I asked Mary Jane to stay at her friend's house, which was a few miles away, while I worked on my plan. Then she was to come back here. If I wasn't back by eleven o'clock, she was to tell everyone the truth about the king and the duke. After Mary Jane left, I went outside to where

说：“畜生！来吧，一分一秒都不要浪费。 我们要给他们涂上柏油，涂上羽毛，扔到河里去！”“好吧，”我说，“那两个骗子，真是一帮无赖。 不管我愿不愿意，我都得和他们再旅行一段时间。 我宁愿不告诉你原因。 如果你告发他们，镇上的人会把我从他们手里救出来的。 我会没事的，但还有一个你不知道的人会有大麻烦。 我们得去救他，不是吗？ 当然可以。好吧，那么，我们还不能告发他们。” 和她谈话时，我想到了如何甩掉那两个骗子。 我请玛丽·简住在几英里外她的朋友家，我在这期间制定我的计划。 然后她要回到这里来。 如果我十一点前还没回来，她就要告诉大家国王和公爵的真相。 玛丽·简走后，我到外面去了

the auction was being held in the public square. It was late in the afternoon and it took a long time to sell everything. The king kept giving speeches and interrupting the auctioneer while the duke pretended to talk with sign language. Eventually they sold everything. Just as the auction was ending, a crowd came up from the steamboat dock. They were yelling, laughing, and carrying-on. "Here's another set of heirs to old Peter Wilks' fortune!" they yelled. "Two more brothers!" The crowd was walking with an older gentleman and a nice looking younger one. My souls, how the people yelled and laughed. I didn't see any joke about it. I thought surely the king and the duke would get upset. But no, they just looked at the newcomers. The king had a sad look on his face, as if it made him sick to think there could be such frauds in the world. The nice old gentleman looked confused. When he spoke,

拍卖在公共广场举行。 当时是下午晚些时候，卖完所有的东西花了很长时间。 当公爵假装用手语交谈时，国王不停地发表演讲，打断拍卖师。 最终他们卖掉了所有的东西。 就在拍卖即将结束时，一群人从汽船码头走了出来。 他们又喊又笑，继续着。 “老彼得·威尔克斯的财产又有了一批继承人！"他们嚷道。 “还有两个兄弟！”人群中有一位年长的绅士和一位年轻英俊的绅士。 我的灵魂啊，人们是如何叫喊和大笑的。 我没觉得这有什么好笑的。 我想国王和公爵肯定会生气的。 但是没有，他们只看新来的。 国王脸上带着悲伤的表情，似乎一想到世界上还会有这样的骗局，他就感到恶心。 这位和蔼的老先生看起来很困惑。 当他说话的时候，

I knew right away that he had a real English accent. It was nothing like the king's fake accent. There were a lot of arguments then. The newcomers said they were the real Harvey and William Wilks. They had been held up in their journey here and now they had to prove that they were telling the truth. The old doctor said he knew that the king and the duke were lying. He demanded that the six thousand dollars be returned. The king told him that the money was stolen by the slaves, who had since left town. At first the town seemed divided between those who believed the king and the duke really were the Wilks brothers and those who believed in the newcomers. But as they listened to the real brothers, more people started to realize who was telling the truth and who was lying. The king put on a good show, though. He answered every question so well that it was hard to prove he was lying. Finally the old gentleman asked the king to

我马上就知道他有纯正的英国口音。 这一点也不像国王的假口音。 当时有很多争论。 新来的人说他们是真正的哈维和威廉·威尔克斯。 他们在旅途中受到了阻碍，现在他们必须证明自己说的是实话。 老医生说他知道国王和公爵在说谎。 他要求退还那6000美元。 国王告诉他，钱被奴隶们偷走了，他们已经离开了城镇。 起初，镇上的人似乎分成了两派，一派认为国王和公爵确实是威尔克斯兄弟，另一派则认为是新来者。 但当他们听了真正的兄弟们的话，更多的人开始意识到谁说的是真话，谁在撒谎。 尽管如此，国王还是上演了一出好戏。 他对每个问题都回答得很好，很难证明他在说谎。 最后，老绅士请求国王