日期：2014-11-13 Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty. When Jem and I asked him why he was so old,he said he got started late, which we felt reflected upon his abilities and manliness. Hewas much older than the parents of our school contemporaries, and there was... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-13 You can just take that back, boy! This order, given by me to Cecil Jacobs, was the beginning of a rather thin time forJem and me. My fists were clenched and I was ready to let fly. Atticus had promised mehe would wear me out if he ever heard of me f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-13 For reasons unfathomable to the most experienced prophets in Maycomb County,autumn turned to winter that year. We had two weeks of the coldest weather since 1885,Atticus said. Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when childrendiso... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-13 Jem stayed moody and silent for a week. As Atticus had once advised me to do, I triedto climb into Jem's skin and walk around in it: if I had gone alone to the Radley Place attwo in the morning, my funeral would have been held the next afternoon. So... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-13 Yes, said our father, when Jem asked him if we could go over and sit by MissRachel's fishpool with Dill, as this was his last night in Maycomb. Tell him so long forme, and we'll see him next summer. We leaped over the low wall that separated Miss Ra... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-13 My nagging got the better of Jem eventually, as I knew it would, and to my relief weslowed down the game for a while. He still maintained, however, that Atticus hadn't saidwe couldn't, therefore we could; and if Atticus ever said we couldn't, Jem ha... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-13 The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, theywere an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of constructionpaper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-13 Catching Walter Cunningham in the schoolyard gave me some pleasure, but when Iwas rubbing his nose in the dirt Jem came by and told me to stop. You're bigger'n heis, he said. He's as old as you, nearly, I said. He made me start off on the wrong foot... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-13 Dill left us early in September, to return to Meridian. We saw him off on the five o'clockbus and I was miserable without him until it occurred to me that I would be starting toschool in a week. I never looked forward more to anything in my life. Ho... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-13 When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. When it healed, and Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, hewas seldom self-conscious about his injury. His left arm was somewhat shorter th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-09 TWO days are passed. It is a summer evening; the coachman has set me down at a place called Whitcross; he could take me no farther for the sum I had given, and I was not possessed of another shilling in the world. The coach is a mile off by this tim... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-09 SOME time in the afternoon I raised my head, and looking round and seeing the western sun gilding the sign of its decline on the wall, I asked, 'What am I to do?' But the answer my mind gave- 'Leave Thornfield at once'- was so prompt, so dread, that... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-09 SOPHIE came at seven to dress me: she was very long indeed in accomplishing her task; so long that Mr. Rochester, grown, I suppose, impatient of my delay, sent up to ask why I did not come. She was just fastening my veil (the plain square of blond a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-09 THE month of courtship had wasted: its very last hours were being numbered. There was no putting off the day that advanced- the bridal day; and all preparations for its arrival were complete. I, at least, had nothing more to do: there were my trunks... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-09 AS I rose and dressed, I thought over what had happened, and wondered if it were a dream. I could not be certain of the reality till I had seen Mr. Rochester again, and heard him renew his words of love and promise. While arranging my hair, I looked... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-09 A SPLENDID Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant as were then seen in long succession, seldom favour even singly, our wave-girt land. It was as if a band of Italian days had come from the South, like a flock of glorious passen... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-09 MR. ROCHESTER had given me but one week's leave of absence: yet a month elapsed before I quitted Gateshead. I wished to leave immediately after the funeral, but Georgiana entreated me to stay till she could get off to London, whither she was now at... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-09 PRESENTIMENTS are strange things! and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key. I never laughed at presentiments in my life, because I have had strange ones of my own. S... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-09 I HAD forgotten to draw my curtain, which I usually did, and also to let down my window-blind. The consequence was, that when the moon, which was full and bright (for the night was fine), came in her course to that space in the sky opposite my casem... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-09 THE library looked tranquil enough as I entered it, and the Sibyl- if Sibyl she were- was seated snugly enough in an easy-chair at the chimney-corner. She had on a red cloak and a black bonnet: or rather, a broad-brimmed gipsy hat, tied down with a... 阅读全文>>