017 哈克吐露真相

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I wanted to get away that very night

我想当晚就离开。

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I hoped to rejoin Jim so we could continue down the river

我希望重新和吉姆会合，好继续沿河而下。

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Later, after the king and the duke had gone away, I would send all the money back to Mary Jane

之后，等国王和公爵离开，我会把所有钱寄回给玛丽·简。

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I waited until the house was quiet, except for the snores coming from the king's room

我一直等到房子里安静下来，只听见国王房里传出的鼾声。

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I crept downstairs and passed by the parlor door

我蹑手蹑脚地下楼，经过客厅门口。

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One candle was burning in there, and I could see the coffin

里面点着一支蜡烛，我能看见棺材。

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I tried to open the front door, but it was locked and I didn't have the key

我试着打开前门，但门锁了，我也没有钥匙。

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While I was thinking about what to do next, I heard someone coming down the stairs

正想着接下来怎么办，我听到有人下楼来了。

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I hurried into the parlor. Where could I hide the money bag?

我急忙躲进客厅。钱袋能藏在哪儿呢？

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The coffin lid was partly open, so I shoved the bag in there

棺材盖半开着，于是我一把将袋子塞了进去。

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I accidentally touched Peter's cold hands, which made me shiver

我不小心碰到了彼得冰冷的手，让我打了个寒颤。

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I quickly hid behind the door just as Mary Jane came into the room

我赶紧躲到门后，这时玛丽·简走进了房间。

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She sat beside the coffin and cried softly

她坐在棺材旁边，轻声哭泣。

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Her back was to me, and I snuck out of the room

她背对着我，于是我悄悄溜出了房间。

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I couldn't get out of the house now, so I went back up to bed

我现在没法逃出房子，就回到楼上睡觉了。

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I felt very worried, but if the money stayed where it was, everything would be all right

我感到非常担心，但只要钱还在那里，一切都会没事的。

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I would run away tomorrow and go back to Jim

我打算明天就逃跑，回到吉姆那里。

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When we were a hundred kilometers down the river, I could write a letter to Mary Jane and tell her the money was buried with her uncle

等我们顺流而下，到了下游一百公里外，我会写封信给玛丽·简，告诉她钱和她叔叔葬在一起。

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But I didn't think things would go that smoothly

可我没想到事情会那么顺利。

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What if someone at the funeral decided to take a last look at Peter and noticed the money bag?

万一葬礼上有人想最后看一眼彼得，发现了钱袋怎么办？

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Then the king and the duke would find a way to steal it from Mary Jane again

那国王和公爵又会想办法把钱从玛丽·简那里偷回来。

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All through the funeral the next morning, I was scared

第二天早上的葬礼，我整整担心了一路。

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Would someone find the money bag in the coffin?

会不会有人在棺材里发现那个钱袋呢？

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But no one did, and Peter Wilks was buried in the cemetery

好在没人发现，彼得·威尔克斯被安葬在了墓地里。

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I just wished I could be sure the money was really in the coffin with him

我只希望能确定，钱真的跟他一起在棺材里。

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I worried that someone might have gone into the parlor late in the night and taken it

我担心会不会有人半夜溜进客厅，把它拿走了。

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Meanwhile, the king announced that he would be holding an auction of Peter Wilks' property in two days

同时，国王宣布他要在两天后拍卖彼得·威尔克斯的财产。

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He and his brother had to get back to England, he said

他说，他和他弟弟得赶回英国去。

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The lying scoundrel also said that he would take the sisters to England with him

那个撒谎的无赖还说，他要带三姐妹一起回英国。

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Poor Mary Jane and her sisters began to pack

可怜的玛丽·简和她的姐妹们开始收拾行李。

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I knew he wouldn't be taking them anywhere, that he and the duke would run away as soon as the auction was over

我知道他不会带她们去任何地方，他和公爵一等拍卖结束就会溜走。

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I longed to tell Mary Jane the truth, but I was afraid of what the king and the duke would do to me

我渴望把真相告诉玛丽·简，但我害怕国王和公爵会对我做什么。

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Then something even worse happened. Two slave traders arrived in town

然后更糟糕的事情发生了。两个奴隶贩子来到镇上。

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The king sold the family's black slaves to them

国王把这家人的黑奴卖给了他们。

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He sold two sons to one trader and their mother to the other trader

他把两个儿子卖给了其中一个贩子，把他们的母亲卖给了另一个。

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The slaves were very upset as they were being taken away

奴隶们被带走时非常难过。

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Mary Jane and her sisters cried and cried

玛丽·简和她的姐妹们哭了又哭。

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Many people in town said that it was a terrible thing to separate a slave family this way

镇上很多人说这样拆散一个奴隶家庭太残忍了。

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They began to think that Harvey and William weren't as nice as they had thought

他们开始觉得哈维和威廉并不像他们原来想的那么好。

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The next morning, the king and the duke came up to the attic and shook me awake

第二天早上，国王和公爵爬上阁楼，把我摇醒了。

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" Were you in my room last night or the night before?" the king demanded

国王质问道：“你昨天晚上或前天晚上进过我房间吗？”

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I understood at once that they knew the money bag was gone

我立刻明白了，他们知道钱袋不见了。

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" Why no, Your Majesty!" I said

“哦，没有，陛下！”我说。

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" Did you see anyone else go in there?"

“你看见有别人进去过吗？”

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" Well, I might have seen the slaves go in there to clean up," I lied, thinking fast

“嗯，我可能看见奴隶们进去打扫过，”我飞快地想着，撒了谎。

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After that, the king and the duke believed that the slaves had stolen the money and they stopped searching for it

从那以后，国王和公爵相信是奴隶偷了钱，就停止寻找了。

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I knew the black slaves were already far away, where the king couldn't harm them

我知道那些黑奴已经远走高飞，国王再也伤害不到他们了。

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As I went downstairs for breakfast, I saw Mary Jane packing her trunk

我下楼吃早饭时，看见玛丽·简在收拾箱子。

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She looked so unhappy that I couldn't bear it any longer

她看上去那么难过，我再也忍不住了。

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I decided to tell her the truth

我决定告诉她真相。

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I told her how the king and the duke had met the young man on the boat and how

我告诉她国王和公爵如何在船上遇到那个年轻人，而且，

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after listening to him, they had decided to pretend to be Peter's brothers

听完他的讲述后，他们就决定冒充彼得的兄弟。

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I told her they were thieves and liars

我告诉她他们是小偷和骗子。

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She believed me and her eyes blazed with anger

她相信了我，眼睛里燃烧着怒火。

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She wanted to have them arrested right away, but I asked her to wait until the next day

她想马上让人逮捕他们，但我请她等到第二天。

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I explained that I needed to get away first

我解释说我得先脱身。

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I couldn't tell her why, but said that I had to help another person who needed me

我不能告诉她原因，只说我还得帮助另一个需要我的人。

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I was pretty sure that when Mary Jane told the townspeople about the scoundrels, they would believe her

我十分肯定，当玛丽·简把这两个恶棍的事告诉镇上的人时，他们会相信她。

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But, in case she needed more proof, I told her she could write to the mayor of Bricksville

但是，万一她需要更多证据，我告诉她可以给布里克斯维尔镇的镇长写信，

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and tell him that the men who had staged the Royal Nonesuch were in her town

告诉他那两个上演了“皇家绝品”的人就在她镇上。

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The mayor would be happy to tell everyone that the two men were crooks

镇长很乐意告诉大家这两个人是骗子。

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" And there's one more thing," I said." The bag of money."

“还有一件事，”我说，“那个钱袋。”

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" Well, those scoundrels have that," she said." I was foolish, and I gave it to them."

“唉，那些恶棍拿走了，”她说，“我真傻，我把它给了他们。”

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" No, they don't have it," I said." I took it from them to give to you

“不，钱没在他们那里，”我说，“我从他们那里拿回来是要给你的。

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I don't have it now, but I know where it is."

现在我没有带着，但我知道它在哪里。”

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At that point, Mary Jane gave me a big hug, which made my face go red

这时，玛丽·简给了我一个大大的拥抱，让我的脸红了。