It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I
couldn't try to quit being the kind of a boy I was and be better. So I
kneeled down. But the words wouldn't come. Why wouldn't they? It warn't
no use to try and hide it from Him. Nor from me, neither. I knowed very
well why they wouldn't come. It was because my heart warn't right; it
was because I warn't square; it was because I was playing double. I was
letting on to give up sin, but away inside of me I was holding on to the
biggest one of all. I was trying to make my mouth say I would do the
right thing and the clean thing, and go and write to that nigger's owner
and tell where he was; but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He
knowed it. You can't pray a lie — I found that out.
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Kaiserin_Y
我全身簌簌发抖。我正要立意跪下祈祷,但愿能与过去那个孩子的所作所为一刀两断,重做一个新人。于是我双膝跪下。可是啊,偏偏话到了口边却说不出来。为了什么,话出不了口啊?企图瞒过“他”,那是做不到的嘛。要瞒过我,那也是做不到的嘛。我深深地明白,为什么那些话说不出口来。这是因为我的这颗心还不正啊;因为这颗心还有私心啊。这全因为我在玩两面倒的把戏啊。我一面装做要改邪归正,可是在私下里,在心底里,我却黏住了其中最最大的邪恶不放。我试图叫我的嘴巴说什么我要干正正当当的事,干干净净的事,还打算给这个黑奴的主人去信,告诉她他如今在那里。可是在我心底深处,我知道那是在撒谎——而上帝也知道。你可不能对上帝撒谎啊——这个道理,我如今算是弄明白啦 哈克贝利是很信仰上帝的