【英文文学】Little Miss Grasshopper
43页1、【英文文学】Little Miss GrasshopperCHAPTER IBELL WINSHIPs EXPERIMENTMARCH had come in like a lion, and showed no sign of going out like a lamb. The pussy willows knew that it was, or ought to be, spring, but although it takes a deal to discourage a New England pussy willow, they shivered in their brown skins and despaired of making their annual appearance even by April Fools Hay. The swallows still lingered in the South, having received private advices from the snow-birds that State o Maine weather, i
2、n the present season, was only fitted for Arctic explorers. The air was keen and nipping and the wind blew steadily from the north and howled about the chimneys until one hardly knew whether to hug the warmth of the open fire or to go out and battle with the elements.Little did the rosy girls of the Wareham Female Seminary (girls were still “young females” when all this happened)little did they care about snow and sleet and ice. Studies went on all the better with the afternoon skating and slidi
3、ng to look forward to. What joy to perch in the window-seat with your volume of Virgil, and translate “Hoc opus hic labor est” with half an eye on the gleaming ice of the pond, or the glittering crust of the hillsides! What fun to slip on your rubber boots, muffle yourself in your warm coat (made out of mothers old mink cape), and run across the way to the Academy for recitations in mathematics or philosophy!These joys, however, with their attendant responsibilities, duties, and cares, were to b
4、e suspended for a while at the Wareham Seminary, and the “young females” who graced that institution of learning were not inconsolable.Bell Winship, an uncommonly nice girl herself and a born leader of other nice girls, had sent out five mysteriously worded notes that morning, five little notes to as many little maids, requesting the honor of their presence at ten a. m. precisely, in Number 27, Second floor.Where Bell Winship wished girls to be, there they always were, and on the minute, too, le
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