〈接续〉

“噢。”斯佳丽不禁叫出了声，杰拉尔德的话让她认识到，那个可怕的事实已经不可扭转了，心头又涌起一阵痛苦。杰拉尔德看着她低垂的头，心里感到不安，两脚在地上蹭来蹭去。

“你不是在哭吧？”他问道，一面笨拙地扶着她的下巴，想把她的脸抬起来，他自己也皱着眉头，一脸怜惜之情。

“不是。”她一扭脸气愤地叫了一声。

“你撒谎，可我还是为这事感到骄傲，你有这种傲气，我很高兴，闺女。我想在明天的野餐会上看到你这种傲气。我不想叫全县都议论你、嘲笑你，说你对一个男人倾心，而那人对你除了友情没有别的意思。”

“他对我有意思，”斯佳丽心里难过地想着，“对我很有意思！我知道他是这样的。我能看得出来。要是再有些时间，我知道我会让他说出来的——噢，要是韦尔克斯家的人不老是觉得非和表亲结婚的话，那多好啊！”

杰拉尔德拉住她的手臂，挽在自己的胳膊上。

“我们现在得进去吃晚饭了，所有这些咱俩知道就行了。我可不想拿这事麻烦你妈——你也不要。擦擦鼻子，女儿。”www.medabc.com.cn 江南文学网

斯佳丽用她那块破手帕擦了擦鼻子，两个人手挽手走向黑黢黢的车道，马儿在后面慢慢跟着。快到房子跟前时，斯佳丽正想开口说话，却见妈妈站在昏暗的门廊阴影中。她戴着帽子，围着披肩，戴着手套，她身后站着黑妈妈，她脸色有如阴云，手上拿着一个黑皮包，这个黑皮包是埃伦·奥哈拉给黑奴治病时装绷带和药品用的。黑妈妈的大嘴唇总是往下耷拉着，一生气就能拉长到平时的两倍。现在就是这么拉长着的，斯佳丽一看就知道她生气了，准是又瞧见了什么她看不顺眼的事了。

“奥哈拉先生。”看到父女俩从车道走过来，埃伦叫了一声——埃伦属于很正统的那一代人，即使结婚已经十七年，生了六个孩子以后，依旧如此——“奥哈拉先生，斯莱特里家有人生病了。埃米的孩子生下来了，可是快不行了，必须施洗礼。我要和黑妈妈一块儿去一趟，看看还能帮着做点儿什么。”

“Oh，” cried Scarlett， fresh pain striking her as Gerald’s words

ought home the te

ible inevitability of th looked at her bowed head and shuffled his feet uneasily.

“It’s not crying you are?” he questioned， fumbling clumsily at her chin， trying to turn her face upward， his own face fu

owed with pity.

“No，” she cried vehemently， jerking away.

“It’s lying you are， and I’m proud of it. I’m glad there’s pride in you，I want to see pride in you tomo

ow at the ba

’ll not be having the unty gossiping and laughing at you for mooning your heart out about a man who never gave you a thought beyond friendship.”

“He did give me a thought，” thought Scarlett， so

owfully in her heart.“Oh， a lot of thoughts! I know hI’d just had a little longer， I know I uld have made him say—Oh， if it only wasn’t that the Wilkes always feel that they have to ma

y their usins!”

Gerald took her arm and passed it through his.

“We’ll be going in to supper now， and all this is between us. I’ll not be wo

ying your mother with this—nor do you do it，your nose， daughter.”

Scarlett blew her nose on her torn handkerchief， and they started up the dark drive arm in arm， the horse followin the house， Scarlett was at the point of speaking again when she saw her mother in the dim shadows of th had on her bonnet， shawl and mittens， and behind her was Mammy， her face like a thundercloud， holding in her hand the black leather bag she used in doctoring th’s lips were large and pendulous and， when indignant， she uld push out her lower one to twice its norma was pushed out now， and Scarlett knew that Mammy was seething over something of which she did not approve.

“Mr. O’Hara，” called Ellen as she saw the two ing up the driveway—Ellen belonged to a generation that was formal even after seventeen years of wedlock and the bearing of six children—“Mr. O’Hara， there is illness at the Slatter’s baby has been born and is dying and must b going there with Mammy to see what I can do.”

以上摘自美国《飘》

Scarlett的父亲、母亲、黑人奶妈及Scarlett本人，这一家人的关系，感情纽带并利益纽带，这是内部关联，这内部关联，在外部的大环境里，这个大环境：庄园主及其拥有的庄园、土地、森林等生产资料，男主人丈夫、女主人妻子、丈夫和妻子生的女儿、奴隶身份的奶妈，这种形态，是人类社会成千上万种形态的一种，成千上万种人类个体关联幸福形态的一种。

〈待续〉