舞台上下__Jerome K.Jerome.pdf

www.ChineseA 英文名著3000 本 中文在线出品 STAGE-LAND by Jerome K. Jerome 1 www.ChineseA 英文名著3000 本 中文在线出品 TO THAT HIGHLY RESPECTABLE BUT UNNECESSARILY RETIRING INDIVIDUAL, OF WHOM WE HEAR SO MUCH BUT SEE SO LITTLE, THE EARNEST STUDENT OF THE DRAMA, 2 www.ChineseA 英文名著3000 本 中文在线出品 THIS (COMPARATIVELY) TRUTHFUL LITTLE BOOK IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED. 3 www.ChineseA 英文名著3000 本 中文在线出品 CONTENTS. THE HERO THE VILLAIN THE HEROINE THE COMIC MAN THE LAWYER THE ADVENTURESS THE SERVANT GIRL THE COMIC LOVERS THE PEASANTS THE GOOD OLD MAN THE IRISHMAN THE DETECTIVE THE SAILOR 4 www.ChineseA 英文名著3000 本 中文在线出品 STAGE-LAND. 5 www.ChineseA 英文名著3000 本 中文在线出品 THE HERO. His name is George, generally speaking. Call me George! he says to the heroine. She calls him George (in a very low voice, because she is so young and timid). Then he is happy. The stage hero never has any work to do. He is always hanging about and getting into trouble. His chief aim in life is to be accused of crimes he has never committed, and if he can muddle things up with a corpse in some complicated way so as to get himself reasonably mistaken for the murderer, he feels his day has not been wasted. He has a wonderful gift of speech and a flow of language calculated to strike terror to the brav