平民餐馆

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Across the street was a restaurant of no great pretensions, 街对面有一家不起眼的餐馆，

for large appetites and small wallets. 专门接待胃口大而钱包瘪的食客。

Its dishes were heavy and its soup was thin. 这里的饭菜油腻顶饱，汤水却清汤寡水。

Here, nobody looked twice at Soapy's shoes. 在这儿，谁也不会多看一眼苏比脚上的破鞋。

He sat down and ate beefsteak, pancakes, doughnuts, and pie. 他坐下来，大吃了一顿牛排、煎饼、甜甜圈和馅饼。

Then he told the waiter the plain truth: 然后他向服务员摊了牌：

he didn't have a single penny. 他身上连一个子儿都没有。

"Now get busy and call a cop," said Soapy. “行了，赶紧去叫警察吧，”苏比说，

"And don't keep a gentleman waiting." “可别让一位绅士久等了。”

"No cop for you," said the waiter, “叫警察？你也配，”服务员说，

with a voice like butter and an eye like the cherry in a cocktail. 那声音油滑得像黄油，眼神冷得像鸡尾酒里的樱桃。

"Hey, Con!" “嘿，小康！”

Two waiters picked Soapy up and tossed him neatly onto the hard sidewalk, 两个服务员一把架起苏比，干净利落地把他扔到了硬邦邦的人行道上，

left ear first. 左耳朵先着了地。

He got up slowly, joint by joint, 他慢吞吞地爬起来，一节一节活动着浑身的关节，

and beat the dust from his clothes. 拍掉衣服上的尘土。

The world is quick to punish a poor man, 这世道惩罚起穷人来从来都雷厉风行，

just never in the way he'd like. 可偏偏从不按穷人想要的方式来。

Arrest seemed like a rosy dream now, 如今看来，被捕反倒成了一个美好的梦，

and the Island very far away. 而那座监狱小岛也变得无比遥远。