Story of the Barber's Fifth Brother 2

The next day she will complain to her mother of the way she has been treated, which will fill my heart with joy. Her mother will come to seek me, and, kissing my hands with respect, will say, "My lord" (for she could not dare to risk my anger by using the familiar title of "son-in-law"), "My lord, do not, I implore¹（恳求，乞求） you, refuse to look upon my daughter or to approach her. She only lives to please you, and loves you with all her soul." But I shall pay no more heed²（注意 ，留心） to my mother-in-law's words than I did to those of the women. Again she will beseech³（恳求
，哀求） me to listen to her entreaties ⁴, throwing herself this time at my feet, but all to no purpose. Then, putting a glass of wine into my wife's hand, she will say to her, "There, present that to him yourself, he cannot have the cruelty to reject anything offered by so beautiful a hand," and my wife will take it and offer it to me tremblingly with tears in her eyes, but I shall look in the other direction. This will cause her to weep still more, and she will hold out the glass crying, "Adorable husband, never shall I cease my prayers till you have done me the favour to drink." Sick of her importunities, these words will goad ⁵ me to fury. I shall dart ⁶ an angry look at her and give her a sharp blow on the cheek, at the same time giving her a kick so violent that she will stagger（蹒跚，犹豫） across the room and fall on to the sofa. , ,"My brother," pursued the barber, "was so much absorbed in his dreams that he actually did give a kick with his foot, which unluckily hit the basket of glass. It fell into the street and was instantly broken into a thousand pieces." , ,His neighbour the tailor, who had been listening to his visions, broke into a loud fit of laughter as he saw this sight. , , ,The accident, so fatal to all his profits, had restored my brother to his senses, and seeing that the mischief ⁹ had been caused by his own insufferable pride, he rent his clothes and tore his hair, and lamented ¹⁰ himself so loudly that the passers-by stopped to listen. It was a Friday, so these were more numerous than usual. Some pitied Alnaschar, others only laughed at him, but the vanity which had gone to his head had disappeared with his basket of glass, and he was loudly bewailing his folly ¹¹ when a lady, evidently a person of consideration, rode by on a mule ¹². She stopped and inquired what was the matter, and why the man wept. They told her that he was a poor man who had laid out all his money on this basket of glass, which was now broken. On hearing the cause of these loud wails ¹³ the lady turned to her attendant and said to him, "Give him whatever you have got with you." The man obeyed, and placed in my brother's hands a purse containing five hundred pieces of gold. Alnaschar almost died of joy on receiving it. He blessed the lady a thousand times, and, shutting up his shop where he had no longer anything to do, he returned home. , ,He was still absorbed in contemplating ¹⁴ his good fortune, when a knock came to his door, and on opening it he found an old woman standing ¹⁵ outside. , ,Please implore someone else's help in a crisis.危险时请向别人求助。,You must take heed of what he has told.你要注意他所告诉的事 。