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the touchstone(试金石)-第20部分

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them。   。   。   。〃 Her   voice   wavered   on   the   word。     〃We   can't   always   tear 

down   the  temples   we've   built to   the   unclean   gods; but   we  can   put   good 

spirits    in   the  house     of   evilthe   spirits   of   mercy     and   shame     and 



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understanding; that might never have come to us if we hadn't been in such 

great need。 。 。 。〃 

     She moved over to him and laid a hesitating hand on his。                      His head 

was   bent   and   he   did not   change  his   attitude。    She sat   down beside   him 

without speaking; but their silences now were fertile as rain… cloudsthey 

quickened the seeds of understanding。 

     At length he looked up。           〃I don't know;〃 he said; 〃what spirits have 

come   to   live in the  house of   evil   that   I  builtbut  you're  there  and   that's 

enough for me。        It's strange;〃 he went on after another pause; 〃she wished 

the best for me so often; and now; at last; it's through her that it's come to 

me。     But   for   her   I   shouldn't   have   known   youit's   through   her   that   I've 

found   you。   Sometimes;   do   you   know?that   makes   it   hardestmakes   me 

most intolerable to myself。          Can't you see that it's the worst thing I've got 

to   face?    I   sometimes   think   I   could   have   borne   it   better   if   you   hadn't 

understood!       I   took   everything   from   hereverything   even   to   the   poor 

shelter of loyalty she'd trusted inthe only thing I could have left her!I 

took everything from her; I deceived her; I despoiled her; I destroyed her 

and she's given me YOU in return!〃 

     His wife's cry caught him up。            〃It isn't that she's given ME to youit 

is that she's given you to yourself。〃            She leaned to him as though swept 

forward   on   a   wave   of   pity。   〃Don't   you   see;〃   she   went   on;   as   his   eyes 

hung   on   her;   〃that   that's   the   gift   you   can't   escape   from;   the   debt   you're 

pledged to acquit?        Don't you see that you've never before been what she 

thought you; and that now; so wonderfully; she's made you into the man 

she   loved?   THAT'S   worth   suffering   for;   worth   dying   for;   to   a   woman 

that's the gift she would have wished to give!〃 

     〃Ah;〃 he cried; 〃but woe to him by whom it cometh。                   What did I ever 

give her?〃 

     〃The happiness of giving;〃 she said。 



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