Donde la madre quiere besar y abrazar a su hijo
mayor, y las enfermeras apenas le dejan tiempo a su lado. Del clásico de W.
Somerset Maugham (léase mom) Of
Human Bondage, algunos párrafos
en inglés.
En vocabulario encontramos still-born.
… she held the right foot in her hand and felt the five small toes; and then slowly passed her hand over the left one. She gave a sob…
Bette Davis y Leslie Howard en la versión filmica
Párrafos
The day broke gray and cloudy. The clouds hung
heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman
servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains.
She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico,
and went to the child's bed.
"Wake up, Philip," she said.
She pulled down the bed-clothes, took him in her
arms, and carried him downstairs. He was only half awake.
"Your mother wants you," she said.
She opened the door of a room on the floor below and
took the child over to a bed in which a woman was lying. It was his mother. She
stretched out her arms, and the child nestled by her side. He did not ask why
he had been awakened. The woman kissed his eyes, and with thin, small hands
felt the warm body through his white flannel nightgown. She pressed him closer
to herself.
"Are you sleepy, darling?" she said.
Her voice was so weak that it seemed to come already
from a great distance. The child did not answer, but smiled comfortably. He was
very happy in the large, warm bed, with those soft arms about him. He tried to
make himself smaller still as he cuddled up against his mother, and he kissed
her sleepily. In a moment he closed his eyes and was fast asleep. The doctor
came forwards and stood by the bed-side.
"Oh, don't take him away yet," she moaned.
The doctor, without answering, looked at her
gravely. Knowing she would not be allowed to keep the child much longer, the
woman kissed him again; and she passed her hand down his body till she came to
his feet; she held the right foot in her hand and felt the five small toes; and
then slowly passed her hand over the left one. She gave a sob.
"What's the matter?" said the doctor.
"You're tired."
She shook her head, unable to speak, and the tears
rolled down her cheeks.
The doctor bent down.
"Let me take him."
She was too weak to resist his wish, and she gave
the child up. The doctor handed him back to his nurse.
"You'd better put him back in his own
bed."
"Very well, sir." The little boy, still
sleeping, was taken away. His mother sobbed now broken-heartedly.
"What will happen to him, poor child?"
The monthly nurse tried to quiet her, and presently,
from exhaustion, the crying ceased. The doctor walked to a table on the other
side of the room, upon which, under a towel, lay the body of a still-born child. He lifted the towel and looked. He was
hidden from the bed by a screen, but the woman guessed what he was doing.
"Was it a girl or a boy?" she whispered to
the nurse.
"Another boy."… (Of Human Bondage, by W.
Somerset Maugham.)
Vocabulario
Stillborn:
(of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn; "a stillborn baby"
Recursos
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Human Bondage, to listen from the Internet.
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