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    The rider clicked his tongue and trotted1 off. Stamp made small circles in the palm of his left handwith two fingers of his right. "You got to choose," he said. "Choose anyone. They let you be if youwant em to. My house. Ella. Willie Pike. None of us got much, but all of us got room for one more.

  Pay a little something when you can, don't when you can't. Think about it. You grown. I can'tmake you do what you won't, but think about it."Paul D said nothing.

  "If I did you harm, I'm here to rectify3 it.""No need for that. No need at all."A woman with four children walked by on the other side of the road. She waved, smiling. "Hoooo.

  I can't stop. See you at meeting.""I be there," Stamp returned her greeting. "There's another one," he said to Paul D. "ScriptureWoodruff, Able's sister. Works at the brush and tallow factory. You'll see. Stay around here longenough, you'll see ain't a sweeter bunch of colored anywhere than what's right here. Pride, well,that bothers em a bit. They can get messy when they think somebody's too proud, but when itcomes right down to it, they good people and anyone will take you in.""What about Judy? She take me in?""Depends. What you got in mind?""You know Judy?""Judith. I know everybody.""Out on Plank4 Road?""Everybody.""Well? She take me in?"Stamp leaned down and untied5 his shoe. Twelve black buttonhooks, six on each side at the bottom,led to four pairs of eyes at the top. He loosened the laces all the way down, adjusted the tonguecarefully and wound them back again. When he got to the eyes he rolled the lace tips with hisfingers before inserting them. "Let me tell you how I got my name." The knot was tight and so wasthe bow. "They called me Joshua," he said. "I renamed myself," he said, "and I'm going to tell youwhy I did it," and he told him about Vashti. "I never touched her all that time. Not once. Almost a year. We was planting when it started and picking when it stopped. Seemed longer. I should havekilled him. She said no, but I should have. I didn't have the patience I got now, but I figured maybesomebody else didn't have much patience either — his own wife. Took it in my head to see if shewas taking it any better than I was. Vashti and me was in the fields together in the day and everynow and then she be gone all night. I never touched her and damn me if I spoke6 three words to hera day. I took any chance I had to get near the great house to see her, the young master's wife.

  Nothing but a boy. Seventeen, twenty maybe. I caught sight of her finally, standing7 in the backyardby the fence with a glass of water. She was drinking out of it and just gazing out over the yard. Iwent over. Stood back a ways and took off my hat. I said, 'Scuse me, miss. Scuse me?' She turnedto look. I'm smiling. 'Scuse me. You seen Vashti? My wife Vashti?' A little bitty thing, she was.

  Black hair. Face no bigger than my hand. She said, "What? Vashti?' I say, 'Yes'm, Vashti. Mywife. She say she owe you all some eggs. You know if she brung em? You know her if you seeher. Wear a black ribbon on her neck.' She got rosy8 then and I knowed she knowed. He give Vashtithat to wear. A cameo on a black ribbon. She used to put it on every time she went to him. I put myhat back on. 'You see her tell her I need her. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am.' I backed off beforeshe could say something. I didn't dare look back till I got behind some trees. She was standing justas I left her, looking in her water glass. I thought it would give me more satisfaction than it did. Ialso thought she might stop it, but it went right on. Till one morning Vashti came in and sat by thewindow. A Sunday. We worked our own patches on Sunday. She sat by the window looking out ofit. 'I'm back,' she said. 'I'm back, Josh.' I looked at the back of her neck. She had a real small neck.

  I decided9 to break it. You know, like a twig10 — just snap it. I been low but that was as low as I evergot.""Did you? Snap it?""Uh uh. I changed my name.""How you get out of there? How you get up here?""Boat. On up the Mississippi to Memphis. Walked from Memphis to Cumberland.""Vashti too?""No. She died.""Aw, man. Tie your other shoe!""What?""Tie your goddamn shoe! It's sitting right in front of you!

  Tie it!""That make you feel better?""No." Paul D tossed the bottle on the ground and stared at the golden chariot on its label. Nohorses. Just a golden coach draped in blue cloth.

  "I said I had two things to say to you. I only told you one. I have to tell you the other.""I don't want to know it. I don't want to know nothing. Just if Judy will take me in or won't she.""I was there, Paul D.""You was where?""There in the yard. When she did it.""Judy?""Sethe.""Jesus.""It ain't what you think.""You don't know what I think.""She ain't crazy. She love those children. She was trying to out hurt the hurter.""Leave off.""And spread it.""Stamp, let me off. I knew her when she was a girl. She scares me and I knew her when she was agirl.""You ain't scared of Sethe. I don't believe you.""Sethe scares me. I scare me. And that girl in her house scares me the most.""Who is that girl? Where she come from?""I don't know. Just shot up one day sitting on a stump11." "Huh. Look like you and me the only onesoutside 124 lay eyes on her.""She don't go nowhere. Where'd you see her?""Sleeping on the kitchen floor. I peeped in.""First minute I saw her I didn't want to be nowhere around her. Something funny about her. Talksfunny. Acts funny." Paul D dug his fingers underneath12 his cap and rubbed the scalp over histemple. "She reminds me of something. Something, look like, I'm supposed to remember.""She never say where she was from? Where's her people?""She don't know, or says she don't. All I ever heard her say was something about stealing herclothes and living on a bridge." "What kind of bridge?""Who you asking?""No bridges around here I don't know about. But don't nobody live on em. Under em neither. Howlong she been over there with Sethe?""Last August. Day of the carnival13.""That's a bad sign. Was she at the carnival?""No. When we got back, there she was — 'sleep on a stump. Silk dress. Brand-new shoes. Black asoil.""You don't say? Huh. Was a girl locked up in the house with a whiteman over by Deer Creek14.

  Found him dead last summer and the girl gone. Maybe that's her. Folks say he had her in theresince she was a pup.""Well, now she's a bitch.""Is she what run you off? Not what I told you 'bout2 Sethe?"A shudder15 ran through Paul D. A bone-cold spasm16 that made him clutch his knees. He didn't knowif it was bad whiskey, nights in the cellar, pig fever, iron bits, smiling roosters, fired feet, laughingdead men, hissing17 grass, rain, apple blossoms, neck jewelry18, Judy in the slaughterhouse, Halle inthe butter, ghost-white stairs, chokecherry trees, cameo pins, aspens, Paul A's face, sausage or theloss of a red, red heart.

  "Tell me something, Stamp." Paul D's eyes were rheumy. "Tell me this one thing. How much is anigger supposed to take? Tell me. How much?""All he can," said Stamp Paid. "All he can.""why? Why? Why? Why? Why?"


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1 trotted 6df8e0ef20c10ef975433b4a0456e6e1     
小跑,急走( trot的过去分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走
参考例句:
  • She trotted her pony around the field. 她骑着小马绕场慢跑。
  • Anne trotted obediently beside her mother. 安妮听话地跟在妈妈身边走。
2 bout Asbzz     
n.侵袭,发作;一次(阵,回);拳击等比赛
参考例句:
  • I was suffering with a bout of nerves.我感到一阵紧张。
  • That bout of pneumonia enfeebled her.那次肺炎的发作使她虚弱了。
3 rectify 8AezO     
v.订正,矫正,改正
参考例句:
  • The matter will rectify itself in a few days.那件事过几天就会变好。
  • You can rectify this fault if you insert a slash.插人一条斜线便可以纠正此错误。
4 plank p2CzA     
n.板条,木板,政策要点,政纲条目
参考例句:
  • The plank was set against the wall.木板靠着墙壁。
  • They intend to win the next election on the plank of developing trade.他们想以发展贸易的纲领来赢得下次选举。
5 untied d4a1dd1a28503840144e8098dbf9e40f     
松开,解开( untie的过去式和过去分词 ); 解除,使自由; 解决
参考例句:
  • Once untied, we common people are able to conquer nature, too. 只要团结起来,我们老百姓也能移山倒海。
  • He untied the ropes. 他解开了绳子。
6 spoke XryyC     
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
参考例句:
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
7 standing 2hCzgo     
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
参考例句:
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
8 rosy kDAy9     
adj.美好的,乐观的,玫瑰色的
参考例句:
  • She got a new job and her life looks rosy.她找到一份新工作,生活看上去很美好。
  • She always takes a rosy view of life.她总是对生活持乐观态度。
9 decided lvqzZd     
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
参考例句:
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
10 twig VK1zg     
n.小树枝,嫩枝;v.理解
参考例句:
  • He heard the sharp crack of a twig.他听到树枝清脆的断裂声。
  • The sharp sound of a twig snapping scared the badger away.细枝突然折断的刺耳声把獾惊跑了。
11 stump hGbzY     
n.残株,烟蒂,讲演台;v.砍断,蹒跚而走
参考例句:
  • He went on the stump in his home state.他到故乡所在的州去发表演说。
  • He used the stump as a table.他把树桩用作桌子。
12 underneath VKRz2     
adj.在...下面,在...底下;adv.在下面
参考例句:
  • Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
  • She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣,里面套着一条连衣裙。
13 carnival 4rezq     
n.嘉年华会,狂欢,狂欢节,巡回表演
参考例句:
  • I got some good shots of the carnival.我有几个狂欢节的精彩镜头。
  • Our street puts on a carnival every year.我们街的居民每年举行一次嘉年华会。
14 creek 3orzL     
n.小溪,小河,小湾
参考例句:
  • He sprang through the creek.他跳过小河。
  • People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。
15 shudder JEqy8     
v.战粟,震动,剧烈地摇晃;n.战粟,抖动
参考例句:
  • The sight of the coffin sent a shudder through him.看到那副棺材,他浑身一阵战栗。
  • We all shudder at the thought of the dreadful dirty place.我们一想到那可怕的肮脏地方就浑身战惊。
16 spasm dFJzH     
n.痉挛,抽搐;一阵发作
参考例句:
  • When the spasm passed,it left him weak and sweating.一阵痉挛之后,他虚弱无力,一直冒汗。
  • He kicked the chair in a spasm of impatience.他突然变得不耐烦,一脚踢向椅子。
17 hissing hissing     
n. 发嘶嘶声, 蔑视 动词hiss的现在分词形式
参考例句:
  • The steam escaped with a loud hissing noise. 蒸汽大声地嘶嘶冒了出来。
  • His ears were still hissing with the rustle of the leaves. 他耳朵里还听得萨萨萨的声音和屑索屑索的怪声。 来自汉英文学 - 春蚕
18 jewelry 0auz1     
n.(jewllery)(总称)珠宝
参考例句:
  • The burglars walked off with all my jewelry.夜盗偷走了我的全部珠宝。
  • Jewelry and lace are mostly feminine belongings.珠宝和花边多数是女性用品。


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