《印度之行的阅读笔记》勤劳的朱妞妞

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　　Aziz was sitting up in bed,
　　"Here's your home," he said sardonically讽刺. "Here's the celebrated hospitality of the East. Look at the flies. Look at the chuna墙纸 coming off the walls. Isn't it jolly? Now I suppose you want to be off,
　　AZ这话自贬哦，但是我很奇怪的是。这到底指的是M？F？

　　"Anyhow, you want to rest."
　　F/M前来探望，这话说得也在理。
　　"I can rest the whole day, thanks to worthy Dr. Lal. Major Callendar's spy, I suppose you know, but this time it didn't work. I am allowed to have a slight temperature."
　　AZ/F开始胡说
　　"Callendar doesn't trust anyone, English or Indian: that's his character and I wish you weren't under him; but you are and that's that."
　　这话我不大相信M说过，如果真说过，我只能说他们当时就已经用书里的人物指代表达了。而且M如果真说过，其实这话是暗含对F的心疼的。
　　M一直这样，伤害F？连自己都不可以。昏。。。。
　　"Before you go, for you are evidently in a great hurry, will you please unlock that drawer? Do you see a piece of brown paper at the top?"
　　F好可爱，挑这种时候表白。
　　"Yes."
　　"Open it."
　　"Who is this?"
　　"She was my wife. You are the first Englishman she has ever come before. Now put her photograph away."
　　我打赌，这照片上是M。

　　He was astonished, as a traveler who suddenly sees, between the stones of the desert, flowers. The flowers have been there all the time, but suddenly he sees them. He tried to look at the photograph, but in itself it was just a woman in a sari纱丽, facing the world. He muttered, "Really, I don't know why you pay me this great compliment, Aziz, but I do appreciate感动 it."
　　是啊，笨M，你们家F心心念念爱的都是你，你居然还一直看不到，我也同意F的看法，你不是看不到，而是恐惧自责。

　　"Oh, it's nothing, she was not a highly educated woman or even beautiful, but put it away. You would have seen her, so why should you not see her photograph?"
　　"You would have allowed me to see her?"
　　M总是不自信。或者说，M总是对自己太过愤怒。
　　"Why not? I believe in the purdah深闺制度, but I should have told her you were my brother and she would have seen you.
　　F这时候就别扯这些啦。好好表白。
　　All men are my brothers and as soon as one behaves as such he may see my wife."
　　F继续
　　"And when the whole world behaves as such, there will be no more purdah?"