短途旅行及路旁的风景__William Thackeray.pdf

英文名著3000 本 Little Travels and Roadside Sketches by William Makepeace Thackeray 1 英文名著3000 本 Contents. I. FROM RICHMOND IN SURREY TO BRUSSELS IN BELGIUM II. GHENT--BRUGES:-- Ghent (1840) Bruges III. WATERLOO LITTLE TRAVELS AND ROADSIDE SKETCHES 2 英文名著3000 本 I.--FROM RICHMOND IN SURREY TO BRUSSELS IN BELGIUM . . . I quitted the Rose Cottage Hotel at Richmond, one of the comfortablest, quietest, cheapest, neatest little inns in England,and a thousand times preferable, in my opinion, to the Star and Garter, whither, if you go alone, a sneering waiter, with his hair curled, frightens you off the premises; and where, if you are bold enough to brave the sneering waiter, you have to pay ten shillings for a bottle of claret; and whence, if you look out of the window,you gaze on a view which is so rich that it seems to knock you down with its splendor--a view that has its hair curled like the swaggering waiter: I say, I quitted the Rose Cottage Hotel with deep regret, believing that I should see nothing so pleasant as its gardens, and its veal cutlets, and its dear little bowling-green,elsewhere. But the time 3 英文名著3000 本 coms when people must go out of town, and so I got on the top of the omnibus, and the carpet-bag was put inside. If I were a great prince and rode outside of coaches (as I should if I were a great prince), I would, whether I smoked or not, have a case of th best Havanas in my pocket--not for my own smoking, but to give them to the snobs on the coac