Justine 淑女的眼泪 Chapter 4

" Alas ¹, Monsieur," I said, greatly confused, "I am a poor orphan ² not yet fourteen years old and I have already become familiar with every nuance ³ of misfortune; I implore ⁴ your commiseration ⁵, have pity upon me, I beseech ⁶ you," and then I told in detail of all my ills, the difficulty I was having to find a place, perhaps I even mentioned how painful it was for me to have to take one, not having been born for a menial's condition. My suffering throughout it all, how I exhausted ⁷ the little substance I had... failure to obtain work, my hope he would facilitate matters and help me find the wherewithal to live; in sum, I said everything that is dictated ⁸ by the eloquence ⁹ of wretchedness, always swift to rise in a sensitive soul.... After having listened to me with many distractions ¹¹ and much yawning, Monsieur Dubourg asked whether I had always been well-behaved. "I should be neither so poor nor so embarrassed, Monsieur," I answered him, "had I wished to cease to be.", ,"But," said Dubourg upon hearing that, "but what right have you to expect the wealthy to relieve you if you are in no way useful to them?", ,"And of what service are you speaking, Monsieur? I asked nothing more than to render those decency ¹² and my years will permit me fulfill ¹³.", , ,"Oh, Monsieur," I replied, grown heavy of heart and uttering a sigh, "then uprightness and benevolence ²¹ are to be found in man no longer!", ,"Precious little," Dubourg rejoined. "How can you expect them still to exist after all the wise things that have been said and written about them? We have rid ourselves of this mania ²² of obliging others gratuitously ²³; it was recognized that charity's pleasures are nothing but sops ²⁴ thrown to pride, and we turned our thoughts to stronger sensations; it has been noticed, for example, that with a child like you, it is infinitely ²⁵ preferable to extract, by way of dividends ²⁶ upon one's investment, all the pleasures lechery ²⁷ is able to offer much better these delights than the very insipid ²⁸ and futile ²⁹ ones said to come of the disinterested ³⁰ giving of help; his reputation for being a liberal man, an alms-giving and generous man, is not, even at the instant when he most enjoys it, comparable to the slightest sensual pleasure.", ,Alas,the truth is less romantic.然而 ，真理很少带有浪漫色彩 。,He brought up the orphan and passed onto him his knowledge of medicine.他把一个孤儿养大
，并且把自己的医术传给了他
。