回家吧 英语经典文章(6)

“是这样，我在狱中时曾给我妻子写过一封信”他说，“告诉她我要离开很长一段时间，如果她忍受不了，如果孩子不断追问，如果这使她非常痛苦，那么她可以忘了我，我会理解的。我叫她重新嫁人，我知道她是个很不错的女人，真的不一般。我让她忘了我，我让她别给我写回信，因为这没有用，她也真没回信，我已有三年半没有她的音信了。”
“And you"re going home now, not knowing?”
“那么你就这样盲目地回家去?”
“Yeah,” he said shyly. “ Well, last week, when I was sure the parole was coming through, I wrote her again. We used to live in Brunswick, just before Jacksonville, and there"s a big oak tree just as you come into town. I told her that if she"d take me back, she should put a yellow handkerchief on the tree, and I"d get off and come home. If she didn"t want me, forget itno handkerchief, and I"d go on through.”