快乐波利的日志__DAVIS, RICHARD HARDING.pdf

英文名著3000 本 The Log of The Jolly Polly by Richard Harding Davis 1 英文名著3000 本 Temptation came to me when I was in the worst possible position to resist it. It is a way temptation has. Whenever I swear off drinking invariably I am invited to an ushers dinner. Whenever I am rich,only the highbrow publications that pay the least, want my work.But the moment I am poverty-stricken the MANICURE GIRLS MAGAZINE and the ROT AND SPOT WEEKLY spring at me with offers of a dollar a word. Temptation always is on the job. When I am down and out temptation always is up and at me. When first the Farrells tempted me my vogue had departed. On my name and past performances I could still dispose of what I wrote,but only to magazines that were just starting. The others knew I no longer was a best- seller. All the real editors knew it. So did the theatrical 2 英文名著3000 本 managers. My books and plays had flourished in the dark age of the historical-romantic novel. My heroes wore gauntlets and long swords. They fought for the Cardinal or the King, and each loved a high-born demoiselle who was a ward of the King or the Cardinal, and with feminine perversity, always of whichever one her young man was fighting. With people who had never read Guizots History of France, my books were popular, and for me made a great deal of money. This was fortunate, for my parents had left me nothing save expensive tastes. When the tastes became habits, the public left me. It turned to white-slave and crook plays, and to novels true