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英文名著3000 本
THE DAWN OF A TO-MORROW
By FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
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英文名著3000 本
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There are always two ways of looking at a thing,
frequently there are six or seven; but two ways of looking
at a London fog are quite enough. When it is thick and
yellow in the streets and stings a mans throat and lungs as
he breathes it, an awakening in the early morning is either
an unearthly and grewsome,or a mysteriously enclosing,
secluding,and comfortable thing. If one awakens in a
healthy body, and with a clear brain rested by normal
sleep and retaining memories of a normally agreeable
yesterday, one may lie watching the housemaid building
the fire;and after she has swept the hearth and put things
in order, lie watching the flames of the blazing and
crackling wood catch the coals and set them blazing also,
and dancing merrily and filling corners with a glow; and
in so lying and realizing that leaping light and warmth and
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英文名著3000 本
a soft bed are good things, one may turn over on ones
back, stretching arms and legs luxuriously, drawing deep
breaths and smiling at a knowledge of the fog outside
which makes half-past eight oclock on a December
mrning as dark as twelve oclock on a December night.
Under such conditions the soft, thick, yellow gloom has its
picturesque and even humorous aspect. One feels enclosed
by it at once fantastically and cosily, and is inclined to
revel in imaginings of the picture outside, its Rembrandt
lights and orange yellows, the halos about the street-lamps,
the illumin
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