Chapter 33

CHAPTER XXXIII The Hotel Concert "Put on your white organdy, by all means, Anne," advised Diana decidedly. They were together in the east gable chamber; outside it was only twilight-a lovely yellowish-green twilight with a clear-blue cloudless sky. A big round moon, slowly deepening from her pallid luster into burnished silver, hung over the Haunted Wood; the air was full of sweet summer sounds-sleepy birds twittering, freakish breezes, faraway voices and laughter. But in Anne's room the blind was drawn and the lamp lighted, for an important toilet was being made. The east gable was a very different place from what it had been on that night four years before, when Anne had felt its bareness penetrate to the marrow of her spirit with its inhospitable chill. Changes had crept in, Marilla conniving at them resignedly, until it was as sweet and dainty a nest as a young girl could desire.

第三十三章 旅馆音乐会 “安妮，无论如何一定要穿上你的白色奥甘迪纱裙，”戴安娜坚决地建议道。 她们俩一起待在东山墙的房间里； 外面正是薄暮时分——可爱的黄绿色暮色，衬着澄澈无云的蓝天。 一轮又大又圆的明月，光泽从苍白色慢慢变成锃亮银辉，悬在闹鬼森林上空； 空气里满是夏日甜美的声响——睡眼惺忪的鸟儿啁啾，调皮的微风轻吹，远处飘来人声笑语。 但安妮的房间已经拉好百叶窗、点亮了灯，正在做重要的梳妆准备。 如今的东山墙，和四年前那个夜晚已经大不一样，那天安妮只觉得这里空旷冰冷，冷淡的寒意直渗进她的灵魂骨髓。 变化悄然发生，玛丽拉无奈地默许这一切，最终这里变成了年轻姑娘能想要的最甜美精致的小窝。

The velvet carpet with the pink roses and the pink silk curtains of Anne's early visions had certainly never materialized; but her dreams had kept pace with her growth, and it is not probable she lamented them. The floor was covered with a pretty matting, and the curtains that softened the high window and fluttered in the vagrant breezes were of pale-green art muslin. The walls, hung not with gold and silver brocade tapestry, but with a dainty apple-blossom paper, were adorned with a few good pictures given Anne by Mrs. Allan. Miss Stacy's photograph occupied the place of honor, and Anne made a sentimental point of keeping fresh flowers on the bracket under it. Tonight a spike of white lilies faintly perfumed the room like the dream of a fragrance. There was no "mahogany furniture," but there was a white-painted bookcase filled with books, a cushioned wicker rocker, a toilet table befrilled with white muslin, a quaint, gilt-framed mirror with chubby pink Cupids and purple grapes painted over its arched top, that used to hang in the spare room, and a low white bed. Anne was dressing for a concert at the White Sands Hotel.

安妮早年幻想的印着粉玫瑰的丝绒地毯、粉色丝绸窗帘，确实从来没能成真； 但她的梦想一直跟着她一同成长，她大概也不会为这些没实现的幻想遗憾。 地板铺着好看的席垫，高窗挂着淡绿色工艺纱帘，能柔化光线，还会跟着微风轻轻飘动。 墙上没有挂金银织锦挂毯，只贴了精致的苹果花纹壁纸，还挂着几幅艾伦太太送给安妮的不错的画。 斯泰西小姐的照片放在最显眼的位置，安妮总记着要给它下方的托架换上新鲜花朵。 这天晚上，一枝白百合的淡香漫在房间里，就像一场带着香气的梦。 这里没有“桃花心木家具”，但有一个刷着白漆的书架，塞满了书；一张带软垫的藤摇椅；一张镶着白棉纱布褶边的梳妆台；一面古雅的金边镜子，拱顶画着圆滚滚的粉色丘比特和紫葡萄，原本挂在空客房里；还有一张低矮的白色小床。 安妮正在为白沙旅馆的音乐会梳妆打扮。

The guests had got it up in aid of the Charlottetown hospital, and had hunted out all the available amateur talent in the surrounding districts to help it along. Bertha Sampson and Pearl Clay of the White Sands Baptist choir had been asked to sing a duet; Milton Clark of Newbridge was to give a violin solo; Winnie Adella Blair of Carmody was to sing a Scotch ballad; and Laura Spencer of Spencervale and Anne Shirley of Avonlea were to recite. As Anne would have said at one time, it was "an epoch in her life," and she was deliciously athrill with the excitement of it. Matthew was in the seventh heaven of gratified pride over the honor conferred on his Anne and Marilla was not far behind, although she would have died rather than admit it, and said she didn't think it was very proper for a lot of young folks to be gadding over to the hotel without any responsible person with them. Anne and Diana were to drive over with Jane Andrews and her brother Billy in their double-seated buggy; and several other Avonlea girls and boys were going too. There was a party of visitors

这场音乐会是来宾们为夏洛特敦医院筹款举办的，还找了周边所有能登台的业余爱好者来帮忙。 白沙浸信会唱诗班的伯莎·桑普森和珀尔·克莱要表演二重唱； 纽布里奇的米尔顿·克拉克要表演小提琴独奏； 卡莫迪的温妮·阿德拉·布莱尔要演唱一首苏格兰民谣； 斯潘塞谷的劳拉·斯宾塞和埃文利的安妮·雪莉要表演朗诵。 换作安妮以前的说法，这就是她人生的“新纪元”，她整个人都因为兴奋甜丝丝地发颤。 马修为他的安妮得到这份荣誉，骄傲得乐不可支，玛丽拉也差不多，只是她死都不肯承认，还说一大群年轻人没个负责任的长辈陪着，跑去旅馆瞎玩，实在不太妥当。 安妮和戴安娜会搭简·安德鲁斯和她哥哥比利的双座马车过去； 埃文利还有其他好几个男孩女孩也会一起去。 还有一批城里来的客人

expected out from town, and after the concert a supper was to be given to the performers. "Do you really think the organdy will be best?" queried Anne anxiously. "I don't think it's as pretty as my blue-flowered muslin-and it certainly isn't so fashionable." "But it suits you ever so much better," said Diana. "It's so soft and frilly and clinging. The muslin is stiff, and makes you look too dressed up. But the organdy seems as if it grew on you." Anne sighed and yielded. Diana was beginning to have a reputation for notable taste in dressing, and her advice on such subjects was much sought after. She was looking very pretty herself on this particular night in a dress of the lovely wild-rose pink, from which Anne was forever debarred; but she was not to take any part in the concert, so her appearance was of minor importance. All her pains were bestowed upon Anne, who, she vowed, must, for the credit of Avonlea, be dressed and combed and adorned to the Queen's taste. "Pull out that frill a little more-so; here, let me tie your sash; now for your slippers. I'm going to braid your hair in two thick braids, and tie them halfway up with big white bows-no, don't pull out

要来，音乐会结束之后，还会为表演者准备晚餐。 "你真的觉得奥甘迪纱裙最好吗？"安妮焦急地问道。 "我觉得它不如我的蓝色印花细纱裙好看——而且肯定没那条时髦。" "可是它太衬你了呀，"戴安娜说。 "它那么柔软，褶皱漂亮又贴身。 细纱裙硬邦邦的，会让你看起来太拘束。 但是这条奥甘迪纱裙就像是长在你身上一样。" 安妮叹了口气，听从了她的建议。 戴安娜本来就以出色的穿搭品味出名，大家遇到这类事情都很愿意听她的建议。 今晚她自己穿了一条漂亮的野玫瑰粉裙子，好看极了，这种颜色安妮永远穿不了； 不过她不用上台表演，所以她的外表也就没那么重要。 她把所有心思都花在了安妮身上，她发誓，为了埃文利的脸面，安妮的打扮发型一定要精致得合乎女王的品味。 把那个褶边再拉出来一点——对，我来帮你系腰带，接下来穿鞋子。 我要把你的头发编成两条粗辫子，在半腰系上大大的白蝴蝶结——不对，别扯出来

a single curl over your forehead-just have the soft part. There is no way you do your hair suits you so well, Anne, and Mrs. Allan says you look like a Madonna when you part it so. I shall fasten this little white house rose just behind your ear. There was just one on my bush, and I saved it for you." "Shall I put my pearl beads on?" asked Anne. "Matthew brought me a string from town last week, and I know he'd like to see them on me." Diana pursed up her lips, put her black head on one side critically, and finally pronounced in favor of the beads, which were thereupon tied around Anne's slim milk-white throat. "There's something so stylish about you, Anne," said Diana, with unenvious admiration. "You hold your head with such an air. I suppose it's your figure. I am just a dumpling. I've always been afraid of it, and now I know it is so. Well, I suppose I shall just have to resign myself to it." "But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples.

一绺卷发搭在你额前——就留着软乎乎的这部分就好。 安妮，你这个发型真的太适合你了，艾伦太太说你这么分发线，看起来就像圣母一样。 我把这朵白色的小院玫瑰别在你耳朵后面哦。 我的玫瑰丛就开了这一朵，是我特意留给你的。" "那我戴上我的珍珠串链好不好？"安妮问道。 "马修上周从镇上给我带回来这串，我知道他想看我戴它呀。" 黛安娜抿紧嘴唇，歪着乌黑的脑袋挑剔地打量一番，最后觉得还是戴珍珠好看，于是珍珠就系在了安妮纤细奶白的脖子上。 "安妮，你整个人都太有格调啦！"黛安娜带着毫不嫉妒的赞赏说道。 "你抬头的模样都那么有气质。" "我猜这都是因为你身材好。" "我就是个圆滚滚的小肉团子。" "我一直都怕自己胖，现在果然是这样。" "唉，我看我就只能接受这件事了。" "可是你有酒窝呀，"安妮说着，温柔地对着眼前这张娇俏活泼的脸蛋笑了笑。 "多好看的酒窝呀，就像奶油上压出的小坑坑。" 我早就不奢望自己能长出酒窝了。

My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now?" "All ready," assured Diana, as Marilla appeared in the doorway, a gaunt figure with grayer hair than of yore and no fewer angles, but with a much softer face. "Come right in and look at our elocutionist, Marilla. Doesn't she look lovely?" Marilla emitted a sound between a sniff and a grunt. "She looks neat and proper. I like that way of fixing her hair. But I expect she'll ruin that dress driving over there in the dust and dew with it, and it looks most too thin for these damp nights. Organdy's the most unserviceable stuff in the world anyhow, and I told Matthew so when he got it. But there is no use in saying anything to Matthew nowadays. Time was when he would take my advice, but now he just buys things for Anne regardless, and the clerks at Carmody know they can palm anything off on him. Just let them tell him a thing is pretty and fashionable, and Matthew plunks his money down for it. Mind you

我的酒窝梦永远没法实现；不过我这么多梦想都这样了，我不该抱怨。 我现在全都准备好了吗？" "全都好了，"黛安娜话音刚落，玛丽拉就出现在门口，她身形瘦削，头发比从前更白，棱角还是那么分明，神色却温和多了。 快进来看看我们的朗诵家，玛丽拉。 她是不是看起来很漂亮？" 玛丽拉发出了一声介于哼鼻子和嘟囔之间的声音。 "她看着干净又得体。" "我很喜欢她这个梳发的样子。" "不过我觉得开车过去一路沾灰沾露，肯定会弄脏这条裙子，而且这种潮湿的夜晚穿它也太薄了点。" "蝉翼纱本来就是最不耐用的料子，马修买的时候我就跟他说过了。" "不过现在跟马修说这些根本没用。" "从前他还会听我的劝告，现在他一个劲给安妮买东西，卡莫迪的店员都知道能随便把东西推销给他。" "只要他们跟马修说东西又好看又时髦，马修立马就掏钱买下。" 你可得记住