<The Master of Ballantrae> Robert Louis stevenson 밸런트레이 귀공자 | 로버트 루이스 스티븐 독후감 인상깊은 구절

 

재밌는데 저혈압 치료제....

 

"He shall pay me for all this," he added. And when I asked him what was his brother's part in our distress, "What!" he cried, "he sits in my place, he bears my name, he courts my wife; and I am here alone with a damned Irishman in this tooth-chattering desert! O, I have been a common gull!" he cried.

Master로 나오는게 형, my lord, Henry 등등으로 나오는게 동생인데

형은 뱀터뷰 레스타적인 인물인데 완전히 악마다... 이게 악마지... 진짜 형의 인생 목표가 동생 인생 망치기이기 때문에 온전히 동생 인생 망치기 위해 미국까지 바다 건너 따라감

"Nothing is mine, nothing. This day's news has knocked the bottom out of my life. I have only the name and the shadow of things; only the shadow; there is no substance in my rights."

헨리 안쓰럽

Yet all was of a piece. Never a harsh word fell from him, never a sneer showed upon his lip. He had laid aside even his cutting English accent, and spoke with the kindly Scots tongue, that sets a value on affectionate words; and though his manners had a graceful elegance mighty foreign to our ways in Durrisdeer, it was still a homely courtliness, that did not shame but flattered us.

 

형이 가족 앞에서는 세상 다정하게 행동하고 동생이랑 따로 있을때만 돌변해서 욕함

"Henry Dure," said the Master, "two words before I begin. You are a fencer, you can hold a sword! And by that I know you are to fail. But see how strong is my situation! If you fail, I shift out of this country to where my money is before me. If I fall, where are you? My father, your wife who is in love with me-as you very well know-your child even who prefers me to yourself:-how will these avenge me! Had you thought of that, dear Henry?" He looked at his brother with a smile; then made a fencing-room salute.

 

으아아아아아ㅏ아아아아아아아ㅏㅇ악!!!! 헨리 억까 소설

"Life is a singular thing," said he, "and mankind a very singular people. You suppose yourself to love my brother. I assure you it is merely a custom. Interrogate your memory; and when first you came to Durrisdeer, you will find you considered him a dull, ordinary youth. He is dull and ordinary now, though not so young. Had you instead fallen in with me, you would to-day be as strong upon my side."

 

형 to 화자

It is your pretension to be un homme de parole; 'tis mine not to accept defeat. Call it vanity, call it virtue, call it greatness of soul- what signifies the expression? But recognize in each of us a commons train; that we both live for an idea.

 

I was then certain of my lord's purpose in his rambles and of the secret source of his delight. Here was his mistress: it was hatred and not love that gave him healthful colours.

 

가장 유명한 문장

 

"You cannot understand," said he. "You had never such mountains of bitterness upon your heart."

 

재밌었다. 그리고 보물섬과 지킬박사와 밸런트레이 귀공자 모두 로버트 루이스 스티븐슨이 쓴 건 몰랐다.... 엄청난 스토리텔러잖아 재밌다...