Chapter 21

CHAPTER XXI A New Departure in Flavorings "Dear me, there is nothing but meetings and partings in this world, as Mrs. Lynde says," remarked Anne plaintively, putting her slate and books down on the kitchen table on the last day of June and wiping her red eyes with a very damp handkerchief. "Wasn't it fortunate, Marilla, that I took an extra handkerchief to school today? I had a presentiment that it would be needed." "I never thought you were so fond of Mr. Phillips that you'd require two handkerchiefs to dry your tears just because he was going away," said Marilla. "I don't think I was crying because I was really so very fond of him," reflected Anne. "I just cried because all the others did. It was Ruby Gillis started it. Ruby Gillis has always declared she hated Mr. Phillips, but just as soon as he got up to make his farewell speech she

第二十一章 调味新变化 “哎呀，林德太太说过，人生就是聚散离合呀，”安妮唉声叹气地说着，六月最后一天，她把石板和书本放在厨房桌上，用湿乎乎的手帕擦着通红的眼睛。 “玛丽拉，我今天多带了一块手帕去学校，你说是不是太巧了？ 我当时就预感到会用得上它。” “我真没想到你这么喜欢菲利普斯先生，他不过是要走了，你居然要两块手帕擦眼泪，”玛丽拉说。 “我哭才不是因为我特别喜欢他，”安妮若有所思地说。 “我哭只是因为大家都在哭呀。 是鲁比·吉利斯开头的。 鲁比·吉利斯一直说她讨厌菲利普斯先生，可他刚站起来做告别演讲，她就

burst into tears. Then all the girls began to cry, one after the other. I tried to hold out, Marilla. I tried to remember the time Mr. Phillips made me sit with Gil-with a, boy; and the time he spelled my name without an e on the blackboard; and how he said I was the worst dunce he ever saw at geometry and laughed at my spelling; and all the times he had been so horrid and sarcastic; but somehow I couldn't, Marilla, and I just had to cry too. Jane Andrews has been talking for a month about how glad she'd be when Mr. Phillips went away and she declared she'd never shed a tear. Well, she was worse than any of us and had to borrow a handkerchief from her brother-of course the boys didn't cry-because she hadn't brought one of her own, not expecting to need it. Oh, Marilla, it was heartrending. Mr. Phillips made such a beautiful farewell speech beginning, `The time has come for us to part." It was very affecting. And he had tears in his eyes too, Marilla. Oh, I felt dreadfully sorry and remorseful for all the times I'd talked in school and drawn pictures of him on my slate and made fun of him and Prissy. I can tell you I wished I'd been a model

哭了出来。 接着所有女孩子都一个接一个开始哭了。 玛丽拉，我本来忍着没哭的。 我还试着回想菲利普斯先生让我和那个男孩吉尔坐一起的事； 还有他在黑板上写我名字的时候漏了末尾的e； 还有他说我是他见过几何学最差的笨学生，还嘲笑我的拼写； 还有那么多次他都那么刻薄爱挖苦人； 可不知道怎么回事我就是忍不住，玛丽拉，我也只好哭了。 简·安德鲁斯之前说了一个月，说菲利普斯先生走了她有多开心，还说她绝对不会掉一滴眼泪。 结果呢，她比我们谁哭的都凶，还不得不找她弟弟借手帕——当然男孩子都没哭——她自己没带，根本没想到会需要嘛。 唉，玛丽拉，这太让人伤心了。 菲利普斯先生的告别演讲太棒了，开头就说‘我们分别的时候到了。’ 真的太让人感动了。 玛丽拉，他眼睛里也含着眼泪呢。 哦，我真觉得特别愧疚后悔，之前我在课堂上说话，还在石板上画他的漫画，拿他和普里西开玩笑。 我跟你说，我真希望自己当初能做个模范

pupil like Minnie Andrews. She hadn't anything on her conscience. The girls cried all the way home from school. Carrie Sloane kept saying every few minutes, `The time has come for us to part," and that would start us off again whenever we were in any danger of cheering up. I do feel dreadfully sad, Marilla. But one can't feel quite in the depths of despair with two months" vacation before them, can they, Marilla? And besides, we met the new minister and his wife coming from the station. For all I was feeling so bad about Mr. Phillips going away I couldn't help taking a little interest in a new minister, could I? His wife is very pretty. Not exactly regally lovely, of course-it wouldn't do, I suppose, for a minister to have a regally lovely wife, because it might set a bad example. Mrs. Lynde says the minister's wife over at Newbridge sets a very bad example because she dresses so fashionably. Our new minister's wife was dressed in blue muslin with lovely puffed sleeves and a hat trimmed with roses. Jane Andrews said she thought puffed sleeves were too worldly for a minister's wife, but I didn't make any such uncharitable remark, Marilla,

学生，就像明妮·安德鲁斯那样。 她问心无愧，从来没做过亏心事。 女孩子们从学校回家一路上都在哭。 卡丽·斯隆每隔几分钟就念叨一遍‘我们分别的时候到了，’每次我们差点要开心起来，这句话就又把我们弄哭了。 玛丽拉，我真的特别难过。 可是马上就要放两个月假了，谁也没法一直陷在绝望里呀，对不对玛丽拉？ 而且，我们碰到新牧师和他妻子从车站过来。 虽说我因为菲利普斯先生走了很难过，可我忍不住还是对新牧师有点好奇，是不是？ 他的妻子长得非常漂亮。 当然啦，不是那种华丽惊艳的美——我觉得牧师娶个太惊艳的妻子总归不太好，可能会树立坏榜样嘛。 林德太太说新桥那边的牧师妻子就树立了坏榜样，因为她穿得太时髦了。 我们新牧师的妻子穿了一件带漂亮泡泡袖的蓝色细布裙子，帽子上还装饰着玫瑰花。 简·安德鲁斯说她觉得泡泡袖对于牧师妻子来说太世俗了，可我没说这种刻薄话哦，玛丽拉，

because I know what it is to long for puffed sleeves. Besides, she's only been a minister's wife for a little while, so one should make allowances, shouldn't they? They are going to board with Mrs. Lynde until the manse is ready." If Marilla, in going down to Mrs. Lynde's that evening, was actuated by any motive save her avowed one of returning the quilting frames she had borrowed the preceding winter, it was an amiable weakness shared by most of the Avonlea people. Many a thing Mrs. Lynde had lent, sometimes never expecting to see it again, came home that night in charge of the borrowers thereof. A new minister, and moreover a minister with a wife, was a lawful object of curiosity in a quiet little country settlement where sensations were few and far between. Old Mr. Bentley, the minister whom Anne had found lacking in imagination, had been pastor of Avonlea for eighteen years. He was a widower when he came, and a widower he remained, despite the fact that gossip regularly married him to this, that, or the other one, every year of his

因为我太懂想要泡泡袖是什么心情了。 再说了，她刚当牧师妻子没多久，大家应该多包涵呀，对不对？ 他们打算先在林德太太家寄住，直到牧师住宅收拾好。 那天晚上玛丽拉去林德太太家，要说除了她明说的——去还去年冬天借的缝被架——之外还有别的心思，那也是阿冯利大多数人都有的无伤大雅的小弱点。 好多林德太太借出去的东西，有时候她都没指望能再找回来，那天晚上都被借东西的人送回来了。 在这个清静的小乡村，本来就没什么新鲜事，新牧师，何况还是带妻子的新牧师，当然是大家名正言顺的好奇对象了。 老本特利牧师，就是安妮觉得他缺乏想象力的那位，已经在阿冯利当了十八年牧师了。 他来的时候就是鳏夫，一直到现在还是单身，尽管每年都有流言说他要娶这个娶那个。

sojourn. In the preceding February he had resigned his charge and departed amid the regrets of his people, most of whom had the affection born of long intercourse for their good old minister in spite of his shortcomings as an orator. Since then the Avonlea church had enjoyed a variety of religious dissipation in listening to the many and various candidates and "supplies" who came Sunday after Sunday to preach on trial. These stood or fell by the judgment of the fathers and mothers in Israel; but a certain small, red-haired girl who sat meekly in the corner of the old Cuthbert pew also had her opinions about them and discussed the same in full with Matthew, Marilla always declining from principle to criticize ministers in any shape or form. "I don't think Mr. Smith would have done, Matthew" was Anne's final summing up. "Mrs. Lynde says his delivery was so poor, but I think his worst fault was just like Mr. Bentley's-he had no imagination. And Mr. Terry had too much; he let it run away with him just as I did mine in the matter of the Haunted Wood. Besides, Mrs. Lynde says his theology wasn't sound. Mr. Gresham was a very good man and a

旅居到此。 早在今年二月，他就辞了牧职，在教区居民的不舍中离开了。尽管他不擅长讲道，大多数人和这位好心的老牧师相交多年，都对他怀有深厚的感情。 打那以后，每个周日都有各式各样的候选牧师和临时讲道的人来埃文利的教堂试讲道，大家听过的讲道五花八门。 这些人的去留全由教堂里的长辈们定夺； 但有个红头发小姑娘，乖乖坐在卡斯伯特家旧长椅的角落，她对这些人也有自己的看法，还全跟马修说了。玛丽拉向来恪守原则，绝不随便评价任何牧师。 “我觉得史密斯先生不合适，马修，”安妮最后总结道。 “林德太太说他讲道讲得太差劲，但我觉得他最大的毛病和本特利先生一样——一点想象力都没有。 特里先生呢，想象力又太多了； 他任由想象力乱跑，就像我之前编幽灵森林的故事那样。 再说了，林德太太说他的神学理论不对头。 格雷沙姆先生人很不错，而且

very religious man, but he told too many funny stories and made the people laugh in church; he was undignified, and you must have some dignity about a minister, mustn't you, Matthew? I thought Mr. Marshall was decidedly attractive; but Mrs. Lynde says he isn't married, or even engaged, because she made special inquiries about him, and she says it would never do to have a young unmarried minister in Avonlea, because he might marry in the congregation and that would make trouble. Mrs. Lynde is a very farseeing woman, isn't she, Matthew? I'm very glad they've called Mr. Allan. I liked him because his sermon was interesting and he prayed as if he meant it and not just as if he did it because he was in the habit of it. Mrs. Lynde says he isn't perfect, but she says she supposes we couldn't expect a perfect minister for seven hundred and fifty dollars a year, and anyhow his theology is sound because she questioned him thoroughly on all the points of doctrine. And she knows his wife's people and they are most respectable and the women are all good housekeepers. Mrs. Lynde says that sound doctrine in the man and good housekeeping in the

非常虔诚，可他讲了太多笑话，把教堂里的人都逗得哈哈大笑； 太不庄重了，当牧师总得有点庄重的样子对不对，马修？ 我觉得马歇尔先生确实长得挺招人喜欢； 可林德太太说他没结婚，连婚约都没有，她特意打听了。她说埃文利绝对不能请年轻的单身牧师，因为他说不定会和教区里的姑娘结婚，会惹出麻烦。 林德太太可真是有远见，对不对，马修？ 我太开心他们最终请了艾伦先生。 我喜欢他，因为他的布道很有意思，而且他祷告听起来真心诚意，不是走流程应付了事。 林德太太也说他不是完人，但她觉得，一年才七百五十块薪俸，咱们没法指望找到完美的牧师。再说他的神学理论很正，因为林德太太把所有教义要点都细细问过他了。 而且她打听了艾伦太太的娘家，个个都体面，娘家的女人全是持家好手。 林德太太说，牧师本人教义正，妻子会持家，这就