日期：2022-07-21 Next day Philip arrived at Blackstable. Since the death of his mother he had never lost anyone closely connected with him; his aunts death shocked him and filled him also with a curious fear; he felt for the first time his own mortality. He could no... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-21 Two months passed. It seemed to Philip, brooding over these matters, that in the true painters, writers, musicians, there was a power which drove them to such complete absorption in their work as to make it inevitable for them to subordinate life to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-21 Philip could not get the unhappy event out of his head. What troubled him most was the uselessness of Fannys effort. No one could have worked harder than she, nor with more sincerity; she believed in herself with all her heart; but it was plain that... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-21 The story which Philip made out in one way and another was terrible. One of the grievances of the women-students was that Fanny Price would never share their gay meals in restaurants, and the reason was obvious: she had been oppressed by dire povert... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-21 When Philip returned to Amitranos he found that Fanny Price was no longer working there. She had given up the key of her locker. He asked Mrs. Otter whether she knew what had become of her; and Mrs. Otter, with a shrug of the shoulders, answered tha... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-21 In March there was all the excitement of sending in to the Salon. Clutton, characteristically, had nothing ready, and he was very scornful of the two heads that Lawson sent; they were obviously the work of a student, straight-forward portraits of mo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-21 Philip did not find living in Paris as cheap as he had been led to believe and by February had spent most of the money with which he started. He was too proud to appeal to his guardian, nor did he wish Aunt Louisa to know that his circumstances were... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-18 On Tuesdays and Fridays masters spent the morning at Amitranos, criticising the work done. In France the painter earns little unless he paints portraits and is patronised by rich Americans; and men of reputation are glad to increase their incomes by... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-18 There was a general disturbance. Flanagan and two or three more went on to the music-hall, while Philip walked slowly with Clutton and Lawson to the Closerie des Lilas. You must go to the Gaite Montparnasse, said Lawson to him. Its one of the loveli... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-18 Philip walked down the Boulevard du Montparnasse. It was not at all like the Paris he had seen in the spring during his visit to do the accounts of the Hotel St. Georgeshe thought already of that part of his life with a shudderbut reminded him of wh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-18 A few days later Mrs. Carey went to the station to see Philip off. She stood at the door of the carriage, trying to keep back her tears. Philip was restless and eager. He wanted to be gone. Kiss me once more, she said. He leaned out of the window an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-18 The Vicar of Blackstable would have nothing to do with the scheme which Philip laid before him. He had a great idea that one should stick to whatever one had begun. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing ones mind. You chose... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-18 At the end of the year there was a great deal to do. Philip went to various places with a clerk named Thompson and spent the day monotonously calling out items of expenditure, which the other checked; and sometimes he was given long pages of figures... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-18 At first the novelty of the work kept Philip interested. Mr. Carter dictated letters to him, and he had to make fair copies of statements of accounts. Mr. Carter preferred to conduct the office on gentlemanly lines; he would have nothing to do with... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-18 A few days later Philip went to London. The curate had recommended rooms in Barnes, and these Philip engaged by letter at fourteen shillings a week. He reached them in the evening; and the landlady, a funny little old woman with a shrivelled body an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-18 Philip woke early next morning. His sleep had been restless; but when he stretched his legs and looked at the sunshine that slid through the Venetian blinds, making patterns on the floor, he sighed with satisfaction. He was delighted with himself. H... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-18 Next day after dinner they took their rugs and cushions to the fountain, and their books; but they did not read. Miss Wilkinson made herself comfortable and she opened the red sun-shade. Philip was not at all shy now, but at first she would not let... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-18 Philip could not get Miss Wilkinsons story out of his head. It was clear enough what she meant even though she cut it short, and he was a little shocked. That sort of thing was all very well for married women, he had read enough French novels to kno... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-18 Philip was surprised when he saw his uncle and aunt. He had never noticed before that they were quite old people. The Vicar received him with his usual, not unamiable indifference. He was a little stouter, a little balder, a little grayer. Philip sa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-18 Hayward, after saying for a month that he was going South next day and delaying from week to week out of inability to make up his mind to the bother of packing and the tedium of a journey, had at last been driven off just before Christmas by the pre... 阅读全文>>