菲利丝表妹__ELIZABETH C. GASKELL.pdf

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www.ChineseA 英文名著3000 本 中文在线出品 Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Gaskell (1863) 1 www.ChineseA 英文名著3000 本 中文在线出品 PART I It is a great thing for a lad when he is first turned into the independence of lodgings. I do not think I ever was so satisfied and proud in my life as when, at seventeen, I sate down in a little three-cornered room above a pastry-cooks shop in the county town of Eltham. My father had left me that afternoon, after delivering himself of a few plain precepts, strongly expressed, for my guidance in the new course of life on which I was entering. I was to be a clerk under the engineer who had undertaken to make the little branch line from Eltham to Hornby. My father had got me this situation, which was in a position rather above his own in life; or perhaps I should say, above the station in which he was born and bred; for he was raising himself every year in mens consideration and respect. He was a mechanic by trade, but he had some inventive genius, and 2 www.ChineseA 英文名著3000 本 中文在线出品 a great deal of perseverance, and had devised several valuable improvements in railway machinery. He did not do this for profit, though, as was reasonable, what came in the natural course of things was acceptable; he worked out his ideas, because, as he said, until he could put them into shape, they plagued him by night and by day. But this is enough about my dear father; it is a good thing for a country where there are many like him. He was a sturdy Independent by descent and conviction; and this it was, I belie

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