第六章 回到德园
（舒尔曼的炮弹首次攻入城中，而只有少数残余的士兵拼命抵抗。手无寸铁的平民只有四处奔逃。媚兰在思嘉的帮助下产下孩子。思嘉派碧西去找瑞德．准备回家。）
瑞德：噢，噢。
思嘉：瑞德，是你吗，瑞德？
碧西：他在这，思嘉小姐，他在这
思嘉：澳，瑞德，我知道你会来。
瑞德：晚上好，今天好天气，碧西说你正想…·
思嘉：如果现在你还开玩笑，我就杀了你！
瑞德：别告诉我你吓坏了。
思嘉：我吓得要死了。你就是木得象头驴，也该觉得害怕。噢，北佬！
瑞德：不，不是。是我们的残余部队在销毁军火，好让北佬 什么也得不到。
思嘉：我们要离开这。
瑞德：随时听你吩咐，夫人。你准备去哪？
思嘉：回家，去德国。
瑞德：德园？你不知道北方入整天在那里打仗吗？你以为你能带着一个病妇、一个婴儿、一个愚蠢的黑鬼从北方佬军队中大摇大摆开过去吗？你是不是想把他们都抛下呀？
思嘉：他们和我一块，我要回家，你不能阻止我！
瑞德：难道你不知道在野外长途跋涉对威尔克斯太太很危险吗？
思嘉：我要我妈妈2我想回家，回德园。
瑞德：那儿恐怕已经烧成平地了。树林里全是两军的残兵游勇。他们会把你的马拖走，一匹马不算什么，不过我把它份到手也费了不少麻烦。
思嘉：哪怕一步一步地挪，我也要回家。你再拦我我就杀了你。会的，我会的！我会的！
瑞德：好了，亲爱的，好了。回家吧，我猜你能应付今天的事也可以应付舍尔曼。别奖了，擦擦鼻子，象个乖女孩一样……那儿…… 思嘉：碧西，你在干什么？
碧西：收拾东西，思嘉小姐。
思：别收拾了，快下来看看孩子。
碧西：是。
思嘉：媚兰，媚兰……
瑞德：威尔克斯太太，我们要带你去德园。
媚兰：德园。
思嘉：我们只能这样，媚兰。
媚兰：不……
思嘉：他们会把我们这房子烧掉，没事的，媚兰，会没事的。
媚兰：噢，噢，孩子……
瑞德：你有没有力气用手抱住我的脖子？
媚兰：我想可以。
瑞德：不要紧。
媚兰：唤，希礼……查尔斯！
瑞德：什么？她想要什么？
思嘉：希礼的照片，查尔斯的剑。她想让我们带上。
瑞德：那就带上。（他们一路颠簸。最终来到德园附近。瑞德忽然停下车来。）
思嘉：为什么停下？
瑞德：转过去就是德园。我让马喘口气。威尔克斯太太……
碧西：媚兰小姐晕过去了，巴特勒上尉。
瑞德：那样对她更好。不然她受不了那痛。恩惠，你还要坚 持做这傻事？
思嘉：是，是的。我们能过去，我相信。
瑞德：不是我们，亲爱的，是你。我要走了。
思嘉：你要干什么？瑞德，你要去哪？
瑞德：我要走了，亲爱的，我要去参军。
思：你在开玩笑吧。你这么吓我，我要杀了你。
瑞德：我是认真的，思嘉，我要参加我们穿灰色军装、勇敢的联合军队。
思嘉：他们正在逃跑呢
瑞德：不，他们会回来，再打一仗．如果我说的不错的话。而且到时候，我会在里面，虽然退了点，但总好过……
思嘉：瑞德，你一定是在开玩笑。
瑞德：你从头到尾都这么自私，是吗？永远只顾你自己，从不为我们神圣的事业着想。
思嘉：瑞德，你怎么能这样对我．为什么在我最需要你时候离开我，为什么？为什么？
瑞德：为什么？也许是因为我一直偏爱失败的事业．真正失败的事业。或许，是我为自己感到羞耻，谁知道呢？
思嘉：你会因为把我孤单无助地留在这儿而羞耻至死！
瑞德：你？无助？捉到你的北佬才无助呢。来，下来，告个 别。
思嘉：不。
瑞德：下来。
思嘉：瑞德，请不要走。你不能离开我，我不会原谅你。
瑞德：我不是在请你原谅我。我也永远不会明白和原谅我自己。如果子弹打中了我，我就解脱了。我会笑我自己曾是一个傻瓜。但是有件事我知道，那就是我爱你，思嘉。哪怕是世界末日，我都爱你。因为我们太相似了。我们都太坏了：自私、狡猾。但是都善于识穿别人的伪装。
思嘉：别这样抱着我。
瑞德：思嘉，看看我。我爱你胜过我爱任何女人。我等你久过我等任何女人。（瑞德把双唇朝思嘉压去。）
思嘉：放开我！
瑞德：现在爱你的是个南方战士。希望你用手抱住他。希望把你吻他的美好记忆带上战场。你爱不爱我无所谓，你是一个要用一段美好回忆将一名士兵送上战争坟场的女人。思嘉，吻我，吻我，就一次。
思嘉：你下流、怯懦、无耻。你！他们说的对，他们都对，你，你不是一个君子。 瑞德：在这种时候，这种侮辱也不再算什么。还有，如果有人想夺这马，用这个开枪打他。不过别失手打死了马。
思嘉：噢，走吧。我希望你走吧。我希望一发炮弹击中你，把你炸得粉身碎骨，我……
瑞：其他的不重要。我知道你的意思了。如果我真的为国捐躯，我想你会受到良心责备的。再见，思嘉。（思嘉继续驱车赶路。）
思嘉：媚兰，媚兰。我们到家了。到德园了。快，快，笨畜生。
碧西：噢，思嘉小姐，马死了。
思嘉：我看不见房子还在不在，我看不见，他们把它给烧了？它还好，还在，没被烧掉，它还在！（残存的德园将面对战争失败带来的困苦和饥荒。）
思嘉：妈妈2妈妈，我回来了，我回来了！妈妈，让我进去。是我，思嘉。爸，我回来了。回来了……我回来了。
奥哈拉：小。心点，小。心，思嘉。
思嘉：奶妈，奶妈，我回来了。
奶妈：噢，我亲爱的孩子。
思嘉：奶妈，我，我…··妈妈呢？
奶妈：唤，苏·爱伦小姐和考琳小姐得了霍乱。她们病得很厉害。不过现在好多了，只是还很虚弱。 思嘉：可是，妈妈呢？
奶妈：爱伦小姐，她去看护那个艾米·斯莱迪，那个白人废物，她也染上了，昨晚她……
思嘉：妈妈，妈，妈-…·（思嘉迷迷糊糊走进母亲的卧室。奥哈拉太太躺在黑暗的寂静中，她已经死了。）
奶妈：思嘉小姐，亲爱的……
男佣：有什么我可以做的，思嘉小姐？
思嘉：你们怎么安置媚兰小姐？
奶妈：别为媚兰担心，孩子。我把她和孩子都服侍上床了。
思嘉：保罗，你最好帮我把带来的牛牵到牛栏里。
男佣：牛栏没有了，思嘉小姐。北佬当柴烧掉了。
奶妈：思嘉小姐，他们把我们这儿当成总部。
男佣：他们就在这周围扎营。
思嘉：北佬在德国？
奶妈：是的，偷不走的，他们就烧了。衣服、地毯，还有爱伦小姐的珠宝。 思嘉：保罗，我饿了，给我弄点吃的。
奶妈：没有吃的了，他们全带走了。
思嘉：所有的鸡……所有的东西？
保罗：第一天，他们先是大吃，然后吃不了就放在马鞍上带走。
思嘉：别再讲他们做了什么了。（思嘉走过父亲房问，看到孤独中的父亲。）
思嘉：这是什么，爸爸？威士忌？
奥哈拉：是的，女儿。思嘉，够了，你不会喝，会醉的。
思嘉：我希望喝醉了，我想醉。爸爸，这是什么文件？
奥哈拉：债券。这是我们所保留下的一切。我们所剩的一切，债券。
思嘉：什么债券，爸爸？
奥哈拉：当然是联合政府的债券，亲爱的。
思嘉：联合政府的债券。它们还有什么用？
奥哈拉：我不准你这么说话，凯蒂·思嘉。
思嘉：噢，爸，没有钱，没吃的。我们该怎么办？
奥哈拉：我们要问问你妈妈，就这么办。我们要问一问奥哈拉太太。
思嘉：问妈妈？ 奥哈拉：是的，奥哈拉太太会知道该怎么办。不要再领我了，出去骑马吧，我忙着呢。
思嘉：啊，爸爸，再不要担心了。上帝会给我们希望，你不用担心了。（思嘉离开房间，反身关上门。）
奶妈：思嘉小姐，没东西给病人和孩子吃怎么办？
思嘉：我不知道，奶妈，我不知道。
奶妈：园子里什么也没有，只有红萝卜。
碧西：思嘉小姐，苏·爱伦小姐和考琳小姐吵着要擦身。
思嘉：其它佣人去哪了，奶妈？
奶妈：思嘉，现在这儿只有我和保罗了。其他人在战争中走的走，跑的跑了。
碧西：我不能同时照顾病人和孩子，我只有两只手。
男佣：谁去挤牛奶，思嘉小姐？我们都只是家务佣人。
（思嘉已精疲力尽，饥肠漉漉她来到空旷的田野，挖出剩下的红萝卜，狼吞虎咽。）
思嘉：让上帝做见证，上帝做见证。
我是不会屈服的，我要度过这难关。战争结束后，我再也不要挨饿了。不要，我的家人也不要。即使让我去撒谎，去偷，去骗，去杀人，上帝作证，我也不要再挨饿。
Chapter 6 Back to Tara
(Panic hit the city with the first ofSherman shells......
Helpless and unarmed, the populace fled from the
oncoming Juggernaut . And desperately the gallant
"remnants of an army marched out to face the foe. Melanie
gives birth to a child with the help ofScarlett. Now Scarlett
sends Prissy for Rhett Butler, she
's getting ready to leave.)
RHETT: Whoah, whoah.
SCARLETT: Rhett, is that you, Rhett?
PRISSY: He's here, Miss Scarlett, he's here!
SCARLETT: Oh, Rhett, I knew you'd come.
RHETT: Good evening. Nice weather we're having. Prissy
tells me you're planning on...
SCARLETT: If you make any jokes now, I'll kill you!
RHETT: Don't tell me you're frightened.
SCARLETT: I'm scared to death, and if you had the sense
of a goat you'd be scared, too! Oh, the Yankees!
RHETT: No, not yet, that's what's left by our army blowing
up the ammunition, so the Yankees won't get it.
SCARLETT: We've got to get out of here.
RHETT: At your service, Madame. Just where were you
figuring on going?
SCARLETT: Home, to Tara.
RHETT: Tara? Don't you know that they've been fighting
all day around Tara? Do you think you can parade right
through the Yankee army with a sick woman, a baby and
simply minded darkie? Or do you intend leaving them
behind.
SCARLETT: They're going with me and I'm going home
and you can't stop me!
RHETT: Don't you know it's dangerous jouncing Mrs.
Wilkes over miles of open country?
SCARLETT: I want my mother! I want to go home to Tara!
RHETT: Tara's probably been burned to the ground. The
woods are full of ^stragglers from both armies, the least
thing they'll do is take the horse away from you. And even
though it isn't much of an animal, I did have a lot of trouble
stealing it.
SCARLETT: I'm going home if I have to walk every step
of the way! I'll kill you if you try to stop me, I will! I will!
I will! I will!
RHETT: It's all right, darling, it's all right. Now you shall
go home. I guess anybody who did what you've done today
can take care of Sherman. Stop crying. Now blow your
nose like a good little girl...there...
SCARLETT: Prissy, what are you doing?
PRISSY: I'm packing, Miss Scarlett.
SCARLETT: Well, stop it. Come and get the baby
PRISSY: Yes.
SCARLETT: Melanie, Melanie...
RHETT: Mrs. Wilkes. We're taking you to Tara.
MELANIE: Tara...
SCARLETT: It's the only way, Melanie.
MELANIE: No...
SCARLETT: Sherman will bum the house over our heads if we stay.
It's all right, Melanie, it's all right.
MELANIE: There, there.... little baby..
RHETT: Have you the strength to put your arms around my
neck?
MELANIE: I think so.
RHETT: Never mind.
MELANIE: Oh,Ashley..Charles!
RHETT: What is it? What does she want?
SCARLETT: Ashley's picture and Charles' sword, she wants us to
bring them.
RHETT: Get them.
(They venture all the way. At last they are pretty near Tara. Rhett
suddenly stops.)
SCARLETT: Why did you stop?
RHETT: This is the turn to Tara. I let the horse breathe a bit. Mrs. Wilkes...
PRISSY: Miss Melanie done fainted way back. Captain Butler.
RHETT: She's probably better off. She couldn't stand the
pain if she were conscious. Scarlett, are you still determined to do
this crazy thing?
SCAELETT: Oh, yes, yes, I know we can get through it, I'm sure we can.
RHETT: Not we, my dear, you. I'm leaving you here.
SCARLETT: You're what? Rhett, where are you going?
RHETT: I'm going, my dear, to join the army.
SCARLETT: Oh, you're joking. I could kill you for scaring me so.
RHETT: I'm very serious, Scarlett. I'm going to join up with our brave lads in gray.
SCARLETT: But they're running away.
RHETT: Oh, no, they'll turn and make a last stand, if I know anything about them. And when they do, I'll be with them. I'm a little late, but better late than...
SCARLETT: Rhett, you must be joking.
RHETT: Selfish to the end, aren't you? Thinking of your own precious hide with never a thought for the noble cause.
SCARLETT: Rhett, how could you do this to me, and why should you go now that, after it's all over and I need you, why? Why?
RHETT: Why? Maybe it's because I've always had a weakness for lost causes, once they're really lost. Or maybe, maybe I'm ashamed of myself. Who knows?
SCARLETT: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless.
RHETT: You, helpless? Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you. Now climb down here. I want to say goodbye.
SCARLETT: No.
RHETT: Climb down.
SCARLETT: Oh Rhett, please don't go. You can't leave me, please,
I'll never forgive you.
RHETT: I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. But there's one thing that I do know. And that is I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes and call them by their right names.
SCARLETT: Don't hold me like that.
RHETT: Scarlett, look at me. I love you more than I've ever loved any woman. And I've waited longer for you than I've ever waited for any woman.
(Butler is pressing his lips onto Scarlett's.)
SCARLETT: Let me alone!
RHETT: Here's a soldier of the South that loves you, Scarlett. Wants to feel your arms around him, wants to carry the memory of your kisses into battle with him. Never mind about loving me. You're a woman who's sending a soldier to his death with a beautiful memory. Scarlett, kiss me, kiss me, once.
SCARLETT: You're a low-down, cowardly, nasty thing, you! They were right. Everybody was right, you, you aren't a gentleman.
RHETT: A minor point at such a moment. Here, if anyonelays a hand on that nag, shoot him. But don't make amistake and shoot the nag.
SCARLETT: Oh, go on. I want you to go. I hope acannonball lands slap on you, I hope you're blown into amillion pieces, I...
RHETT: Never mind the rest, I follow your general idea.And when I'm dead on the order of my country, I hopeyour conscience heard you. Good-bye Scarlett.(Scarlett drives on.)
SCARLETT: Melanie, Melanie, we're home! We're atTara! Hurry, move brute!
PRISSY: Oh, Miss Scarlett, he's dead!
SCARLETT: I can't see the house, is it there? I can't seethe house, have they burned it? It's all right, it's all right,they haven't burned it. It's still there!
(Tara had survived, to face the hell and famine of defeat.)
SCARLETT: Mother! Mother, I
'm home! Mother, I
'mhome! Mother let me in, it
's me, Scarlett. Oh, Paw, I
'mhome, I
'm home... I
'm home.Mr. O
'HARA: Careful, carefulScarlett...
SCARLETT: Mammie, mammy, I
'm home.
MAMMIE: Oh, honey child...
SCARLETT: Mammy, I
'm so, so....where
's mother?
MAMMIE: Why...Miss Sue Ellen, Miss Carreen, theywere sick with the typhoid. They had it bad, but they
'sdoing all right now. Just weak like little ^kittens.
SCARLETT: But, where
's mother?
MAMMIE: Well, Miss Ellen, she went down to nurse that Emmy Sladdly, that white trash. And she took down with it, too. Then last night, she...
SCARLETT: Mother? Mother? Mother!
(Scarlett walks into her mother
's room faintly. There, in dark
and quietness, lies Mrs. O
'Hara. She
's dead.)
Mammyie: Miss Scarlett honey...
SERVANT: If there
's anything I can do, Miss Scarlett...
SCARLETT: What did you do with Miss Melanie?
MAMMIE: Don
't you worry your pretty head about Miss Melanie, child. I done slapped her in bed already along with the baby.
SCARLETT: You better put that cow I brought into the barn, Paul.
SERVANT: There ain
't no barn.
MAMMIE: Don
't you worry your pretty head about Miss Melanie,child. I done slapped her in bed already along with the baby.
SCARLETT: You better put that cow I brought into the barn, Paul.
SERVANT: There ain
't no barn no more, Miss Scarlett. The Yankees done burned it to firewood.
MAMMIE: They used the house for their headquarters Miss Scarlett.
SERVANT: They camped all around the place.
SCARLETT: Yankees in Tara?
MAMMIE: Yes
'm. And they stole almost everything they didn
't burn. All the clothes, and all the rugs, and even Miss Ellen
's rosaries.
SCARLETT: I
'm starving, Paul. Get me something to eat.
MAMMIE: There ain
't nothing to eat honey. They took it all.
SCARLETT: All the chickens, everything?
SERVANT: They took them the first day. And what they didn
't eat they carried off across their saddles.
SCARLETT: Don
't tell me any more about what they did.
(Scarlett goes into the room, finding her father in solitude.)
SCARLETT: What
's this , Paw? Whisky?
Mr. O
'HARA: Yes daughter. Katie Scarlett, that
's enough. Your not knowing spirits, you
'll make yourself
'
'
'tipsy.
SCARLETT: I hope it makes me drunk. I
'd like to be drunk. Oh, Paw...what are those papers?
Mr. O
'HARA: Bonds. They
're all we
've saved. All we have left. Bonds.
SCARLETT: But what kind of bonds, Paw?
Mr. O
'HARA: Why, Confederate bonds of course, darling.
SCARLETT: Confederate bonds. What good are they to anybody?
Mr. O
'HARA: I
'll not have you talking like that, Katie Scarlett.
SCARLETT: Oh, Paw, what are we going to do with no money and, ...and nothing to eat?
Mr. O
'HARA: We must ask your mother. That
's it. We must ask Mrs.O
'Hara.
SCARLETT: Ask Mother?
Mr. O
'HARA: Yes. Mrs. O
'Hara will know what
's to bedone. Now don
't be bothering me. Go out for a ride. I
'mbusy.
SCARLETT: Oh, Paw. Don
't worry about anything. It isGod
's hope. You needn
't worry.
(Scarlett leaves the room, closing the door behind her.)
MAMMIE: Miss Scarlettt? What are we going to do withnothing to feed them sick folks and that child?
SCARLETT: I don
't know Mammy. I don
't know.
MAMMIE: We ain't got nothing but radishes in the garden.
PRISSY: Miss Scarlett, Miss Sue Ellen and Miss Corrine,They's fussin to be sponged off
SCARLETT: Where are the other servants Mammie?
MAMMIE: Miss Scarlett, there's only just me and Paulleft. The others moved off during the war and ran away.
PRISSY: I can't take care of that baby and sick folks too.I've only got two hands.
SERVANT: Who's going to milk that cow, Miss Scarlett?We's house workers.
(Exhausted and hungry as Scarlett is, she goes out to theopen field, digging out the leftover radishes in the ground,swallowing. )
SCARLETT: As God as my witness....as God as my witnessthey're not going to lick me. I
'm going to live through thisand when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, norany of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill, as Godas my witness, I'll never be hungry again. |
