福特·福特《好兵》.pdf

The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
作者简介
福特福特( ),原名
,作家,生于英国萨里郡默顿。曾与康拉德合写《继承者》
()和《罗曼斯》( )。他自己
还写有《好兵》()等几部作品。年创
办《英语评论》()。第一次世界大战后改名福特,
自我流放到法国、美国,在美国主编《泛大西洋评论》
()。他还写过诗,年代写了一系列
战争小说和四部《游行的结尾》(’)。
CONTENTS
PART I.....................................................................................................1
PART II..................................................................................................44
PART III.................................................................................................59
PART IV...............................................................................................105
The Good Soldier 1
PART I
I
Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme
intimacy— or, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy and yet as
close as a good glove’s with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain and
Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possible to know anybody, and yet, in
another sense, we knew nothing at all about them. This is, I believe, a state
of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit
down to puzzle out what I know of this sad affair, I knew nothing whatever.
Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never
sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows.
I don’t mean to say that we were not acquainted with many English people.
Living, as we perforce lived, in Europe, and being, as we perforce were,
leisured Americans, which is as much as to say that we were un-American,
we were thrown very much into the society of the nicer English. Paris, you
see, was our home. Somewhere between Nice and Bordighera provided
yearly winter quarters for us, and Nauheim always received us from July to
September. You will gather from this statement that one of us had, as the
saying is, a “heart”, and, from the statement that my wife is dead, that she
was the sufferer.
Captain Ashburnham also had a h