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1、(完整版)The PearlThe PearlJohn SteinbeckChapter 1 Kino awakened in the near dark。 The stars still shone and the day haddrawn only a pale wash of light in the lower sky to the east。 Theroosters had been crowing for some time, and the early pigs werealready beginning their ceaseless turning of twigs and
2、bits of wood tosee whether anything to eat had been overlooked。 Outside the brushhouse in the tuna clump, a covey of little birds chittered and flurriedwith their wings。 Kinos eyes opened, and he looked first at the lightening square whichwas the door and then he looked at the hanging box where Coyo
3、titoslept. And last he turned his head to Juana, his wife, who lay besidehim on the mat, her blue head shawl over her nose and over her breastsand around the small of her back. Juanas eyes were open too。 Kinocould never remember seeing them closed when he awakened. Her dark eyesmade little reflected
4、 stars. She was looking at him as she was alwayslooking at him when he awakened。 Kino heard the little splash of morning waves on the beach. It was verygood Kino closed his eyes again to listen to his music. Perhaps healone did this and perhaps all of his people did it。 His people hadonce been great
5、 makers of songs so that everything they saw or thoughtor did or heard became a song。 That was very long ago。 The songsremained; Kino knew them, but no new songs were added。 That does notmean that there were no personal songs. In Kinos head there was a songnow, clear and soft, and if he had been abl
6、e to speak of it, he wouldhave called it the Song of the Family. His blanket was over his nose to protect him from the dank air. Hiseyes flicked to a rustle beside him. It was Juana arising, almostsoundlessly. On her hard bare feet she went to the hanging box whereCoyotito slept, and she leaned over
7、 and said a little reassuring word。Coyotito looked up for a moment and closed his eyes and slept again。Juana went to the fire pit and uncovered a coal and fanned it alivewhile she broke little piesh over it. Now Kino got up and wrapped his blanket about his head and nose andshoulders。 He slipped his
8、 feet into his sandals and went outside towatch the dawn。 Outside the door he squatted down and gathered the blanket ends abouthis knees。 He saw the specks of Gulf clouds flame high in the air。 Anda goat came near and sniffed at him and stared with its cold yelloweyes. Behind him Juanas fire leaped
9、into flame and threw spears oflight through the chinks of the brushhouse wall and threw a waveringsquare of light out the door。 A late moth blustered in to find thefire。 The Song of the Family came now from behind Kino. And the rhythmof the family song was the grinding stone where Juana worked the c
10、ornfor the morning cakes。 The dawn came quickly now, a wash, a glow, a lightness, and then anexplosion of fire as the sun arose out of the Gulf。 Kino looked down tocover his eyes from the glare。 He could hear the pat of the corncakesin the house and the rich smell of them on the cooking plate。 The a
11、ntswere busy on the ground, big black ones with shiny bodies, and littledusty quick ants. Kino watched with the detachment of God while a dustyant frantically tried to escape the sand trap an ant lion had dug forhim。 A thin, timid dog came close and, at a soft word from Kino, curledup, arranged its
12、tail neatly over its feet, and laid its chindelicately on the pile. It was a black dog with yellowgold spots whereits eyebrows should have been。 It was a morning like other mornings andyet perfect among mornings. Kino heard the creak of the rope when Juana took Coyotito out of hishanging box and cle
13、aned him and hammocked him in her shawl in a loopthat placed him close to her breast. Kino could see these thingswithout looking at them. Juana sang softly an ancient song that hadonly three notes and yet endless variety of interval. And this was partof the family song too. It was all part。 Sometime
14、s it rose to an achingchord that caught the throat, saying this is safety, this is warmth,this is the Whole. Across the brush fence were other brush houses, and the smoke came fromthem too, and the sound of breakfast, but those were other songs, theirpigs were other pigs, their wives were not Juana.
15、 Kino was young andstrong and his black hair hung over his brown forehead. His eyes werewarm and fierce and bright and his mustache was thin and coarse. Helowered his blanket from his nose now, for the dark poisonous air wasgone and the yellow sunlight fell on the house. Near the brush fencetwo roos
16、ters bowed and feinted at each other with squared wings andneck feathers ruffed out. It would be a clumsy fight。 They were notgame chickens。 Kino watched them for a moment, and then his eyes wentup to a flight of wild doves twinkling inland to the hills. The worldwas awake now, and Kino arose and we
17、nt into his brush house。 As he came through the door Juana stood up from the glowing fire pit。She put Coyotito back in his hanging box and then she combed her blackhair and braided it in two braids and tied the ends with thin greenribbon。 Kino squatted by the fire pit and rolled a hot corncake anddi
18、pped it in sauce and ate it。 And he drank a little pulque and thatwas breakfast. That was the only breakfast he had ever known outside offeast days and one incredible fiesta on cookies that had nearly killedhim。 When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate herbreakfast. They had spoke
19、n once, but there is not need for speech if itis only a habit anyway。 Kino sighed with satisfaction and that wasconversation。 The sun was warming the brush house, breaking through its crevices inlong streaks。 And one of the streaks fell on the hanging box whereCoyotito lay, and on the ropes that hel
20、d it。 It was a tiny movementthat drew their eyes to the hanging box. Kino and Juana froze in theirpositions. Down the rope that hung the babys box from the roof supporta scorpion moved slowly。 His stinging tail was straight out behind him,but he could whip it up in a flash of time。 Kinos breath whis
21、tled in his nostrils and he opened his mouth to stopit. And then the startled look was gone from him and the rigidity fromhis body。 In his mind a new song had come, the Song of Evil, the musicof the enemy, of any foe of the family, a savage, secret, dangerousmelody, and underneath, the Song of the F
22、amily cried plaintively.The scorpion moved delicately down the rope toward the box. Under herbreath Juana repeated an ancient magic to guard against such evil, andon top of that she muttered a Hail Mary between clenched teeth. ButKino was in motion. His body glided quietly across the room,noiselessl
23、y and smoothly。 His hands were in front of him, palms down,and his eyes were on the scorpion。 Beneath it in the hanging boxCoyotito laughed and reached up his hand toward it. It sensed dangerwhen Kino was almost within reach of it. It stopped, and its tail roseup over its back in little jerks and th
24、e curved thorn on the tails endglistened。 Kino stood perfectly still. He could hear Juana whispering the oldmagic again, and he could hear the evil music of the enemy. He couldnot move until the scorpion moved, and it felt for the source of thedeath that was coming to it。 Kinos hand went forward ver
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