求.James Joyce的短片小说集Dubliners中The Boarding House一文的内容简要,中英文的都

詹姆斯·乔伊斯:《都柏林人》
James Joyce:Dubliners?
James Joyce:Dubliners 07 The Boarding House
Mrs Mooney was a butcher's daughter.She was a woman who was quite able to keep things to herself:a determined woman.She had married her father's foreman,and opened a butcher's shop near Spring Gardens.But as soon as his father-in-law was dead Mr Mooney began to go to the devil.He drank,plundered the till,ran headlong into debt.It was no use making him take the pledge:he was sure to break out again a few days after.By fighting his wife in the presence of customers and by buying bad meat he ruined his business.One night he went for his wife with the cleaver,and she had to sleep in a neighbour's house.
After that they lived apart.She went to the priest and got a separation from him,with care of the children.She would give him neither money nor food nor house-room; and so he was obliged to enlist himself as a sheriff's man.He was a shabby stooped little drunkard with a white face and a white moustache and white eyebrows,pencilled above his little eyes,which were pink-veined and raw; and all day long he sat in the bailiff's room,waiting to be put on a job.Mrs Mooney,who had taken what remained of her money out of the butcher business and set up a boarding house in Hardwicke Street,was a big imposing woman.Her house had a floating population made up of tourists from Liverpool and the Isle of Man and,occasionally,artistes from the music halls.Its resident population was made up of clerks from the city.She governed the house cunningly and firmly,knew when to give credit,when to be stern and when to let things pass.All the resident young men spoke of her as The Madam.
Mrs Mooney's young men paid fifteen shillings a week for board and lodgings (beer or stout at dinner excluded).They shared in common tastes and occupations and for this reason they were very chummy with one another.They discussed with one another the chances of favourites and outsiders.Jack Mooney,the Madam's son,who was clerk to a commission agent in Fleet Street,had the reputation of being a hard case.He was fond of using soldiers' obscenities:usually he came home in the small hours.When he met his friends he had always a good one to tell them,and he was always sure to be on to a good thing - that is to say,a likely horse or a likely artiste.He was also handy with the mits and sang comic songs.On Sunday nights there would often be a reunion in Mrs Mooney's front drawing-room.The music-hall artistes would oblige; and Sheridan played waltzes and polkas and vamped accompaniments.Polly Mooney,the Madam's daughter,would also sing.She sang:
I'm a...naughty girl
You needn't sham:
You know I am.