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英文名著3000 本 The Point of View by Henry James 1 英文名著3000 本 I. FROM MISS AURORA CHURCH, AT SEA, TO MISS WHITESIDE, IN PARIS. . . . My dear child, the bromide of sodium (if thats what you call it) proved perfectly useless. I dont mean that it did me no good,but that I never had occasion to take the bottle out of my bag. It might have done wonders for me if I had needed it; but I didnt,simply because I have been a wonder myself. Will you believe that I have spent the whole voyage on deck, in the most animated conversation and exercise? Twelve times round the deck make a m le,I believe; and by this measurement I have been walking twenty miles a day. And down to every meal, if you please, where I have displayed the appetite of a fish- wife. Of course the weather has been lovely; so theres no great merit. The wicked old Atlantic has been as blue 2 英文名著3000 本 as the sapphire in my only ring (a rather good one),and as smooth as the slippery floor of Madame Galopins dining- room.We have been for the last three hours in sight of land, and we are soon to enter the Bay of New York, which is said to be exquisitely beautiful. But of course you recall it, though they say that everything changes so fast over here. I find I dont remember anything, for my recollections of our voyage to Europe, so many years ago, are exceedingly dim; I only have a painful impression that mamma shut me up for an hour every day in the state- room, and made me learn by heart some religious poem. I was only five years old, and I believe that as a child