Chapter 12

CHAPTER XII A Solemn Vow and Promise It was not until the next Friday that Marilla heard the story of the flower-wreathed hat. She came home from Mrs. Lynde's and called Anne to account. "Anne, Mrs. Rachel says you went to church last Sunday with your hat rigged out ridiculous with roses and buttercups. What on earth put you up to such a caper? A pretty-looking object you must have been!" "Oh. I know pink and yellow aren't becoming to me," began Anne. "Becoming fiddlesticks! It was putting flowers on your hat at all, no matter what color they were, that was ridiculous. You are the most aggravating child!" "I don't see why it's any more ridiculous to wear flowers on your hat than on your dress," protested Anne. "Lots of little girls there had bouquets pinned on their dresses.

第十二章 一份庄重的誓言 直到下周五，玛丽拉才听说那顶满是鲜花的帽子的事。 她从林德太太家回到家，叫安妮过来问话。 “安妮，雷切尔太太说你上周日去教堂，帽子上胡乱插了好多玫瑰和毛茛，可笑死了。 你究竟怎么想到要做这种荒唐事的？ 那模样肯定怪得离谱！” “哦， 我知道粉色和黄色不适合我呀，”安妮开口说道。 “合不合适扯什么淡！ 不管花是什么颜色，往帽子上戴花本身就很荒唐。 你真是最让人头疼的孩子！” “我不明白帽子上戴花怎么就比衣服上戴花更荒唐了，”安妮不服气地说。 “好多小姑娘都把花束别在她们的裙子上呀。

What's the difference?" Marilla was not to be drawn from the safe concrete into dubious paths of the abstract. "Don't answer me back like that, Anne. It was very silly of you to do such a thing. Never let me catch you at such a trick again. Mrs. Rachel says she thought she would sink through the floor when she saw you come in all rigged out like that. She couldn't get near enough to tell you to take them off till it was too late. She says people talked about it something dreadful. Of course they would think I had no better sense than to let you go decked out like that." "Oh, I'm so sorry," said Anne, tears welling into her eyes. "I never thought you'd mind. The roses and buttercups were so sweet and pretty I thought they'd look lovely on my hat. Lots of the little girls had artificial flowers on their hats. I'm afraid I'm going to be a dreadful trial to you. Maybe you'd better send me back to the asylum. That would be terrible; I don't think I could endure it; most likely I would go into consumption; I'm so thin as it is, you see. But that would be better than being a trial to you."

这能有什么区别？” 玛丽拉才不会从实在的具体问题，跳到说不清的抽象争论里去。 “别跟我顶嘴，安妮。 你做出这种事真的太蠢了。 绝对别让我再撞见你耍这种花招了。 雷切尔太太说，看见你那一身打扮走进来，她都恨不得钻进地缝里。 她还没来得及走近叫你把花摘下来，就已经晚了。 她说大家都把这件事说得很难听。 人们当然会觉得，是我没见识，才放任你打扮成那样出门。” “哦，我太对不起了，”安妮说着，眼泪涌进了眼眶。 “我从来没想过你会在意这件事。 玫瑰和毛茛那么香那么好看，我就觉得它们戴在帽子上会很漂亮。 好多小姑娘的帽子上都戴假花呢。 我恐怕总给你惹好多麻烦吧。 说不定你干脆把我送回孤儿院好了。 那会太可怕的； 我觉得我根本受不了； 我多半会得肺痨的； 你看，我本来就这么瘦。 可就算这样，也比总给你添麻烦好呀。”

"Nonsense," said Marilla, vexed at herself for having made the child cry. "I don't want to send you back to the asylum, I'm sure. All I want is that you should behave like other little girls and not make yourself ridiculous. Don't cry any more. I've got some news for you. Diana Barry came home this afternoon. I'm going up to see if I can borrow a skirt pattern from Mrs. Barry, and if you like you can come with me and get acquainted with Diana." Anne rose to her feet, with clasped hands, the tears still glistening on her cheeks; the dish towel she had been hemming slipped unheeded to the floor. "Oh, Marilla, I'm frightened-now that it has come I'm actually frightened. What if she shouldn't like me! It would be the most tragical disappointment of my life." "Now, don't get into a fluster. And I do wish you wouldn't use such long words. It sounds so funny in a little girl. I guess Diana'll like you well enough. It's her mother you've got to reckon with. If she doesn't like you it won't matter how much Diana does. If she has heard about your outburst to Mrs. Lynde

“胡说，”玛丽拉说，她都懊恼自己把孩子弄哭了。 “我可一点都不想把你送回孤儿院，真的。 我只希望你能像别的小姑娘一样规矩，别再做荒唐事了。 别哭了。 我有个消息要告诉你。 戴安娜·巴里今天下午回家了。 我打算去巴里太太那儿借个裙子纸样，如果你愿意，可以跟我一起去，和戴安娜认识认识。” 安妮站起身，双手紧紧攥着，脸颊上还闪着泪光； 她正在缝的擦碗巾没留神滑落到了地板上。 “哦，玛丽拉，我好害怕——事到临头，我真的好害怕。 万一她不喜欢我怎么办！ 那会是我这辈子最悲惨的失望了。” “好了，别慌慌张张的。 我真希望你别用那些文绉绉的长词。 从一个小姑娘嘴里说出来，怪滑稽的。 我猜戴安娜肯定会喜欢你的。 你要担心的是她妈妈。 要是她妈妈不喜欢你，戴安娜再喜欢你也没用。 要是她听说了你对林德太太发脾气，还有

and going to church with buttercups round your hat I don't know what she'll think of you. You must be polite and well behaved, and don't make any of your startling speeches. For pity's sake, if the child isn't actually trembling!" Anne WAS trembling. Her face was pale and tense. "Oh, Marilla, you'd be excited, too, if you were going to meet a little girl you hoped to be your bosom friend and whose mother mightn't like you," she said as she hastened to get her hat. They went over to Orchard Slope by the short cut across the brook and up the firry hill grove. Mrs. Barry came to the kitchen door in answer to Marilla's knock. She was a tall black-eyed, black-haired woman, with a very resolute mouth. She had the reputation of being very strict with her children. "How do you do, Marilla?" she said cordially. "Come in. And this is the little girl you have adopted, I suppose?" "Yes, this is Anne Shirley," said Marilla. "Spelled with an E," gasped Anne, who, tremulous and excited as she was, was determined

你帽子周围插满毛茛去教堂这件事，我不知道她会怎么看你。 你一定要懂礼貌、守规矩，别再说那些吓人的怪话了。 我的天，这孩子居然真的在发抖！” 安妮确实在发抖。 她脸色苍白，神情紧绷。 “哦，玛丽拉，换做是你也会激动的呀，你要去见一个你盼着当知心好友的小姑娘，可她妈妈说不定不喜欢你，”安妮一边说，一边赶紧去拿自己的帽子。 她们抄近路穿过小溪，爬上长满冷杉的山林坡，去往果园坡。 玛丽拉敲了门，巴里太太走到厨房门口开门。 她个子高高的，黑眼睛黑头发，嘴巴生得十分强硬果决。 她向来以对孩子要求严格出名。 “你好呀，玛丽拉？” 她热情地说。 “进来吧。 这位就是你收养的小姑娘吧，我猜？” “没错，这是安妮·雪莉，”玛丽拉说。 “名字结尾带E哦，”安妮喘着气说，尽管她又紧张又激动，还是打定主意要

there should be no misunderstanding on that important point. Mrs. Barry, not hearing or not comprehending, merely shook hands and said kindly: "How are you?" "I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit, thank you ma'am," said Anne gravely. Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, "There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla?" Diana was sitting on the sofa, reading a book which she dropped when the callers entered. She was a very pretty little girl, with her mother's black eyes and hair, and rosy cheeks, and the merry expression which was her inheritance from her father. "This is my little girl Diana," said Mrs. Barry. "Diana, you might take Anne out into the garden and show her your flowers. It will be better for you than straining your eyes over that book. She reads entirely too much-" this to Marilla as the little girls went out-"and I can't prevent her, for her father aids and abets her. She's always poring over a book. I'm glad she has the prospect of a

在这个重要问题上，可不能有任何误会哦。 巴里太太没听清也没明白，只是握了握手，温和地问道：“你好呀？” 安妮郑重地说：“我身体好好的，就是心里乱糟糟的，谢谢您，夫人。” 接着她凑到玛丽拉身旁，用刚好能听见的声音小声说：“我刚才说的没什么奇怪的吧，对不对，玛丽拉？” 戴安娜正坐在沙发上看书，客人进门时她连忙放下了书。 她是个非常漂亮的小姑娘，长着和妈妈一样的黑眼睛黑头发，脸颊红扑扑的，总挂着爸爸遗传给她的快活神情。 巴里太太说：“这是我的小女儿戴安娜。” “戴安娜，你带安妮去花园吧，给她看看你的花。 总盯着书伤眼睛，出去可比看书好多啦。 两个小姑娘往外走的时候，巴里太太对玛丽拉说：“她总是看书太多——我拦不住，她爸爸还顺着她呢。” 她总一个劲埋头看书。 我真高兴她终于能有个

playmate-perhaps it will take her more out-of-doors." Outside in the garden, which was full of mellow sunset light streaming through the dark old firs to the west of it, stood Anne and Diana, gazing bashfully at each other over a clump of gorgeous tiger lilies. The Barry garden was a bowery wilderness of flowers which would have delighted Anne's heart at any time less fraught with destiny. It was encircled by huge old willows and tall firs, beneath which flourished flowers that loved the shade. Prim, right-angled paths neatly bordered with clamshells, intersected it like moist red ribbons and in the beds between old-fashioned flowers ran riot. There were rosy bleeding-hearts and great splendid crimson peonies; white, fragrant narcissi and thorny, sweet Scotch roses; pink and blue and white columbines and lilac-tinted Bouncing Bets; clumps of southernwood and ribbon grass and mint; purple Adam-and-Eve, daffodils, and masses of sweet clover white with its delicate, fragrant, feathery sprays; scarlet lightning that shot its fiery lances over prim white musk-flowers; a garden it was where sunshine

一起玩的小伙伴了——说不定能让她多出门活动呢。” 屋外的花园浸在柔和的落日余晖里，夕阳穿过花园西边苍劲的老冷杉洒进来，安妮和戴安娜站在这儿，隔着一丛明艳的卷丹，害羞地望着彼此。 巴里家的花园花团锦簇野趣横生，换做平常，安妮肯定开心极了，可今天这事关系重大。 花园四周环绕着粗壮的老柳树和高大的冷杉，树荫下长满了喜阴的花儿。 笔直规整的小径边缘整整齐齐镶着蚌壳，像湿润的红丝带纵横交错，小径间的花床上，老式花儿开得热热闹闹。 有红润的荷包牡丹，还有大朵艳丽的深红色牡丹； 有洁白芬芳的水仙，还有带刺香甜的苏格兰玫瑰； 有粉、蓝、白各色耧斗菜，还有淡紫色的膨琪花； 有一丛丛苦艾、丝带草还有薄荷； 有紫色对叶兰、黄水仙，还有大丛香三叶草，娇嫩细枝缀着细碎白花，香气悠悠； 猩红的旱金莲像一支支火矛，映衬着素雅的白色麝香草； 这就是那座，让阳光