【英文读物】The Silver Arrow
11页1、【英文读物】The Silver ArrowPart One And so it happened that Sir Walter Raleigh, the graceful, the gracious, the generous, had spread his cloak in the pathway of Queen Elizabeth and had been taken into her especial favor. The Queen was nineteen years older than Sir Walter; that is to say, she was in her fifties, and he was in his thirties. But Queen Bess hated old age, and swore a halibi for the swift passing years, and always delighted in the title of the Virgin Queen. Sir Walter did one great thing
2、for England, and one for Ireland. He taught the Pg 6English the use of tobacco, and he discovered the Irish potatowhich is native to America. They do say that Sir Walter and Queen Elizabeth enjoyed many a quiet smoke with their feet on the tableso as to equalize circulation. Both of them were big folk, with plans and ambitions plus. Sir Walter was contemporary with Shakespeare, and in fact looked like him, acted like him and had a good deal of the same agile, joyous, bubbling fertility of mind.
3、That is, Sir Walter and William were lovers by nature; and love rightly exercised, and alternately encouraged and thwarted, gives the alternating current, and lo! we have that which the world calls genius. And I am told by those who know, that you can never get genius in any other way. Pg 7 Good Queen Besswho was not so very goodfanned the ambitions of Sir Walter and flattered his abilities. And of course any man born in a lowly station, or high, would have been immensely complimented by the gen
4、tle love-taps, and sighs, vain or otherwise, not to mention the glimmering glances of the alleged Virgin Queen. But a good way to throttle love is to spy on it, question it, analyze it, vivisect it. And so Sir Walters bubbling heart had chills of fear when he discovered that he was being followed wherever he went by the secret emissaries of Elizabeth. Had he been free to act he would have disposed of these spies, and quickly too; but he was in thrall to a Queen, and was paying for his political
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