【英文文学】No man's land
32页1、【英文小说】No mans landI. The Shieling of FarawaIt was with a light heart and a pleasing consciousness of holiday that I set out from the inn at Allermuir to tramp my fifteen miles into the unknown. I walked slowly, for I carried my equipment on my back my basket, fly-books and rods, my plaid of Grant tartan (for I boast myself a distant kinsman of that house), and my great staff, which had tried ere then the front of the steeper Alps. A small valise with books and some changes of linen clothing had
2、been sent on ahead in the shepherds own hands. It was yet early April, and before me lay four weeks of freedom twenty-eight blessed days in which to take fish and smoke the pipe of idleness. The Lent term had pulled me down, a week of modest enjoyment thereafter in town had finished the work; and I drank in the sharp moorish air like a thirsty man who has been forwandered among deserts.I am a man of varied tastes and a score of interests. As an undergraduate I had been filled with the old mania
3、for the complete life. I distinguished myself in the Schools, rowed in my college eight, and reached the distinction of practising for three weeks in the Trials. I had dabbled in a score of learned activities, and when the time came that I won the inevitable St. Chads fellowship on my chaotic acquirements, and I found myself compelled to select if I would pursue a scholars life, I had some toil in finding my vocation. In the end I resolved that the ancient life of the North, of the Celts and the
4、 Northmen and the unknown Pictish tribes, held for me the chief fascination. I had acquired a smattering of Gaelic, having been brought up as a boy in Lochaber, and now I set myself to increase my store of languages. I mastered Erse and Icelandic, and my first book a monograph on the probable Celtic elements in the Eddie songs brought me the praise of scholars and the deputy-professors chair of Northern Antiquities. So much for Oxford. My vacations had been spent mainly in the North in Ireland,
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