【英文文学】The Point of View
28页1、【英文文学】The Point of ViewThe Point of View Chapter 1From Miss Aurora Church at Sea to Miss Whiteside in ParisSeptember 1880. . . My dear child, the bromide of sodium (if thats what you call it) proved perfectly useless. I dont mean that it did me no good, but that I never had occasion to take the bottle out of my bag. It might have done wonders for me if I had needed it; but I didnt, simply because Ive been a wonder myself. Will you believe that Ive spent the whole voyage on deck, in the most anim
2、ated conversation and exercise? Twelve times round the deck make a mile, I believe; and by this measurement Ive been walking twenty miles a day. And down to every meal, if you please, where Ive displayed the appetite of a fishwife. Of course the weather has been lovely; so theres no great merit. The wicked old Atlantic has been as blue as the sapphire in my only ring rather a good one and as smooth as the slippery floor of Madame Galopins dining-room. Weve been for the last three hours in sight
3、of land, and are soon to enter the Bay of New York which is said to be exquisitely beautiful. But of course you recall it, though they say everything changes so fast over here. I find I dont remember anything, for my recollections of our voyage to Europe so many years ago are exceedingly dim; Ive only a painful impression that mamma shut me up for an hour every day in the stateroom and made me learn by heart some religious poem. I was only five years old and I believe that as a child I was extre
4、mely timid; on the other hand mamma, as you know, had what she called a method with me. She has it to this day; only Ive become indifferent; Ive been so pinched and pushed morally speaking, bien entendu. Its true, however, that there are children of five on the vessel today who have been extremely conspicuous ranging all over the ship and always under ones feet. Of course theyre little compatriots, which means that theyre little barbarians. I dont mean to pronounce all our compatriots barbarous;
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