都市故事__Bret Harte.pdf

英文名著3000 本 Urban Sketches by Bret Harte 1 英文名著3000 本 CONTENTS A VENERABLE IMPOSTOR FROM A BALCONY MELONS SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF MASTER CHARLES SUMMERTON SIDEWALKINGS A BOYS DOG CHARITABLE REMINISCENCES SEEING THE STEAMER OFF NEIGHBORHOODS I HAVE MOVED FROM MY SUBURBAN RESIDENCE ON A VULGAR LITTLE BOY WAITING FOR THE SHIP 2 英文名著3000 本 URBAN SKETCHES 3 英文名著3000 本 A VENERABLE IMPOSTOR. As I glance across my table, I am somewhat distracted by the spectacle of a venerable head whose crown occasionally appears beyond, at about its leve The apparition of a very small hand-whose fingers are bunchy and have the appearance of being slightly webbed--which is frequently lifted above the table in a vain and impotent attempt to reach the inkstand, always affects me as a novelty at each recurrence of the phenomenon. Yet both the venerable head and bunchy fingers belong to an individual with whom I am familiar, and to whom, for certain reasons hereafter described,I choose to apply the epithet written above this article. His advent in the family was attended with peculiar circumstances.He was received with some concern--the 4 英文名著3000 本 number of retainers having been increased by one in honor of his arrival. He appeared to be weary,--his pretence was that he had come from a long journey,--so that for days, weeks, and even months, he did not leave