Crime and Punishment — Page 4

干し草市場が近くにあること、素行の悪い施設が多いこと、ペテルブルクの中心部にあるこれらの通りや路地に商人や労働者階級の人々が密集していることから、どんな奇妙な人物も驚かれることのないほど、実に様々な人間が街頭に見られた。

Owing to the proximity of the Hay Market, the number of establishments of bad character, the preponderance of the trading and working class population crowded in these streets and alleys in the heart of Petersburg, types so various were to be seen in the streets that no figure, however queer, would have caused surprise.

しかし、その青年の心には積もりに積もった苦さと軽蔑があったため、若さゆえの潔癖さにもかかわらず、街中でボロをまとっていることなど、彼にはまったく気にならなかった。

But there was such accumulated bitterness and contempt in the young man's heart, that, in spite of all the fastidiousness of youth, he minded his rags least of all in the street.

知人や以前の同窓生に会うときは話が別だった。彼らにはいつどこで会っても、気が進まなかったのだ。

It was a different matter when he met with acquaintances or with former fellow students, whom, indeed, he disliked meeting at any time.

それでも、何らかの理由で重い荷馬車に乗せられてどこかへ連れて行かれる途中の酔っ払いの男が、通り過ぎざまに突然彼に向かって大声で叫び、指さしながら「おい、ドイツ人の帽子屋！」と怒鳴ったとき、青年は突然立ち止まり、震える手で帽子をつかんだ。

And yet when a drunken man who, for some unknown reason, was being taken somewhere in a huge waggon dragged by a heavy dray horse, suddenly shouted at him as he drove past: "Hey there, German hatter" bawling at the top of his voice and pointing at him--the young man stopped suddenly and clutched tremulously at his hat.

それはツィンメルマン商会の背の高い丸い帽子だったが、すっかり使い古されて、古びて錆のような色になり、あちこち破れて汚れ、つばはなく、片側が何とも不恰好な具合に曲がっていた。

It was a tall round hat from Zimmerman's, but completely worn out, rusty with age, all torn and bespattered, brimless and bent on one side in a most unseemly fashion.

しかし彼を襲ったのは恥ずかしさではなく、恐怖に似たまったく別の感情だった。

Not shame, however, but quite another feeling akin to terror had overtaken him.

「やっぱりそうだ」と彼は狼狽しながらつぶやいた。「そう思っていた！これが一番まずい。こんなつまらないこと、ごく些細なことが計画全体を台無しにしてしまうかもしれない。そうだ、この帽子は目立ちすぎる……」

"I knew it," he muttered in confusion, "I thought so! That's the worst of all! Why, a stupid thing like this, the most trivial detail might spoil the whole plan. Yes, my hat is too noticeable....