Chapter 15 Chapter Fourteen

[No doubt Nancy went with them.After lunch, Nancy was leaving the dining room to escape the dreadful home life in her attic when Mintay Doyle held out her hand and invited her with a silent look.Since Min Tai invited her, she thought she should go.She didn't want to go.She didn't want to get involved in this matter at all.Mintai held her hand as they strolled along the path that led to the cliff.Then she let go of her hand.Then she pulled it up again.What exactly does she want?thought Nancy.Of course, people always want something.When Mintai took her hand, Nancy couldn't help seeing the whole world unfolding below her, as if seeing Constantinople through the clouds, so, no matter how sleepy you are, you must ask: " Is that Saint Sophia?" "Is this the seaport of Constantinople?" Therefore, when Mintai took her hand, Nancy asked, "What exactly does she want? Is that what she wants?" What is that again? (As Nancy looks down at the life that unfolds beneath her feet) Out of the mist, here rises a spire, there a temple;But when they ran down the hillside, Min Tai let go of her hand, and all of that, the temple, the spire, anything that had ever risen above the clouds, sank into the sea of ​​mist and disappeared.According to Andrew's observation, Min Tai can walk quite well.She also dresses more reasonably than most women.She was wearing a short skirt and black bloomers.She would jump into the creek and stagger to the other bank.He liked her quick temper, but he knew it wasn't right—one day, foolish and reckless behavior would kill her.She doesn't seem to be afraid of anything - except bulls.Whenever she saw a bull in the field, she threw up her arms, screamed, and galloped, which, of course, irritated the very bull.But she doesn't care to admit her weakness; you have to admit it too.She knew she was a terrible coward in front of a bull, she said.As a baby, she thought, she must have been run over by a cow in her pram.She didn't care what she said or did.Now, with a sudden leap towards the edge of the cliff, she began to sing:

Curse your eyes, curse your eyes. They all had to join in the chorus, shouting together: Curse your eyes, curse your eyes. But if the tide came in and flooded the whole hunting ground where they were fishing and crabbing before they got to the beach, it would be fatal. "That's dead," Paul agreed, jumping up.As they meandered down with difficulty, he kept quoting from the Guidebook: "These islands, because of their picturesque park-like scenery, because of their wide range and variety of rare sea shells, They're well deserved." But Andrew felt it was all inappropriate as he carefully chose his path down the cliff: chanting "curse your eyes"; For "old man"; and all that stuff, none of it fits.Taking women out for walks is abysmal.At one point on the beach they parted, and he walked up to a rock called the Pope's Nose that juts out into the sea, took off his shoes, rolled up his socks and stuffed them, leaving the pair alone. Never mind; Nancy waded across the shallows to her own rock to find her pool, leaving the pair alone.She knelt down and felt the bare, rubbery anemones clinging to the edge of the rock like jelly.She squatted lost in thought, turning the small pool into an ocean, taking the minnows for sharks and whales, and raising her hands, like a giant floating cloud over this little world, blocking the sun, she was like Like God, he brought darkness and desolation to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures.Then, suddenly, she removed her palm and let the sun pour down.On the outstretched, cruciform, white sand, a strutting crayfish, like a strange ribboned and armored scorpion (she was still enlarging the pool), slid into the foot of the hill. Huge chasm.Then, stealthily, her eyes swept over the pool, and stopped where the shimmering sea and sky met, to gaze at the undulating horizon and the tree trunks, which trembled and quivered on the horizon with the smoke from the steamer. , the wave came violently, and then inevitably receded, and she was hypnotized, and the two feelings of the vastness of the sea and the smallness of the pool (which shrank again) were intertwined, making her feel Her body, her life, and the lives of all the people in the world were infinitely small and vanished forever; this strong feeling seemed to bind her hands and feet, so that she could not move.In this way, she listened to the sound of the sea, squatted there overlooking the pool, and meditated silently.

Andrew cried out that the tide was coming in, so Nancy splashed and waded through the shallow water to the shore, and with her impatience and desire for a quick movement she ran and rushed On the beach, right there, behind a rock - oh my!Paul and Mintae are hugging each other, maybe kissing.Nancy was furious and extremely indignant.She and Andrew put on their shoes and socks in silence, and said nothing about the matter.Really, the two of them are not on good terms with each other.Andrew grumbled and complained that Nancy saw the lobster (or whatever it was) and didn't ask him to come and see it.They feel that, anyway, it's not their fault.They didn't want such a horrible nasty thing to happen.Even so, Andrew was offended at the thought that Nancy was a woman, and Nancy was upset at the thought that Andrew was a man.They put on their shoes neatly, and tied the bows of the laces very tightly.

It was only when they were at the top of the cliff again that Mintae cried out that she had lost the brooch her grandmother had given her—her grandmother's brooch, her only ornament—that was a weeping willow, which was (they must have Remember) inlaid with beads.They must have seen it, she said, tears streaming down her cheeks.Her grandmother kept the pin on her own hat until her dying day.Now she has lost it.She would rather lose anything else than this treasure!She's going back to find it.They all went back and groped, looking everywhere with their eyes on the ground.They bowed their heads very low and spoke in short, rough voices.Paul Reilly searched frantically around the rock they had sat on.Paul told Andrew to "search everything from one point to the other," and Andrew thought it was impossible to make such a mess for a pin.The tide was coming in fast, and the sea would soon cover where they sat a minute ago.They had no hope of finding it now.Min Tai suddenly screamed in fear: "We are going to be cut off by the tide!" It seemed that there was such a danger!She seemed to be reliving her panic about the bull—she couldn't control her feelings, Andrew thought.Women have no power over themselves.Poor Paul had to comfort her.The two men (Andrew and Paul at once seemed very manly, very different from usual) discussed briefly, and decided to stick Rayleigh's cane where they had just sat, and come back to look for it when the tide went out. .It was impossible to do anything else now.They assured her that if the pin had fallen there, it would still be there tomorrow morning, but Min-tae was still sobbing all the way to the top of the cliff.It was her grandmother's pin, and she would rather lose it than lose it.However, Nancy felt that maybe she was really sad about losing the pin, but she wasn't crying for that alone, she was crying for some other reason.She felt that we might all sit down and cry.However, she didn't know why.

Paul walks forward with Min-tae, and he reassures her that he has a reputation for being good at finding things.When he was a little boy, he had found a gold watch.Tomorrow he would get up at dawn and he would surely find it.It seemed to him that it was still almost dark by then, and that he was alone on the beach, and somehow it seemed a little dangerous.He began to assure her that he would find it anyway, but she said she wouldn't listen to him getting up in the morning; the pin had been lost; she knew it; when she put it on that afternoon, there was a premonition.He decided to himself that he would not tell her that he would sneak out of the house early in the morning while everyone was still asleep, and if he couldn't find it, he would go to Edinburgh and buy a brooch like it, but much more expensive. prettier.He wants to prove his ability.When they came to the hillside with a clear view, they saw the lights of the town shining below them, and they suddenly came on one after another, like a series of things that were about to happen to him—his marriage, his life. His children, his house; and when they had reached the high road, shaded by tall bushes, he thought, they would retire together to secluded places, always led by him, she clinging to each other. Leaning against him (as she was now), the two of them walked on and on.They turned a corner at the crossroads, and he thought, What a marvelous experience he has had, and he must tell it to someone--Mrs Ramsay, of course--and thinking of what he had just done, he himself Surprised.When he proposed to Min Tae, it was the happiest moment of his life.He was going to speak to Mrs. Ramsay directly, because he somehow felt that she had made him do it.She had made him think he could do anything.Nobody took him seriously except her.But she convinced him that whatever he wanted to do, he could do.He felt her eyes follow him all day today (though she didn't say a word), as if she was saying, "Yes, you can do it. I believe in you. I hope you succeed." She made him feel After all this, as soon as they were back (he searched for the light of the house on the bay), he would go up to her and say: "I've done that, Mrs. Ramsay, thank you very much." They turned the corner into the alley leading to the house, and he could see lights flickering in the upstairs windows.They must have come back too late.Everyone is getting ready for dinner.The whole house was brightly lit, and coming from the dark into the light made his eyes look radiant, and as he walked up the driveway in front of the house, he murmured to himself like a child: light, light, light , and then repeated blankly, lights, lights, lights, and he looked around in blank, expressionless amazement as they entered the room.Jesus, he thought, reaching for his tie, I mustn't make myself look like a fool. 〕