日期：2022-07-13 Philip was moved into the Sixth, but he hated school now with all his heart, and, having lost his ambition, cared nothing whether he did ill or well. He awoke in the morning with a sinking heart because he must go through another day of drudgery. He... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-13 At first Philip had been too grateful for Roses friendship to make any demands on him. He took things as they came and enjoyed life. But presently he began to resent Roses universal amiability; he wanted a more exclusive attachment, and he claimed a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-13 But Philip could not live long in the rarefied air of the hilltops. What had happened to him when first he was seized by the religious emotion happened to him now. Because he felt so keenly the beauty of faith, because the desire for self-sacrifice... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-13 Philip passed the next two years with comfortable monotony. He was not bullied more than other boys of his size; and his deformity, withdrawing him from games, acquired for him an insignificance for which he was grateful. He was not popular, and he... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-13 A year passed, and when Philip came to the school the old masters were all in their places; but a good many changes had taken place notwithstanding their stubborn resistance, none the less formidable because it was concealed under an apparent desire... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-13 The Kings School at Tercanbury, to which Philip went when he was thirteen, prided itself on its antiquity. It traced its origin to an abbey school, founded before the Conquest, where the rudiments of learning were taught by Augustine monks; and, lik... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-13 Then a wave of religiosity passed through the school. Bad language was no longer heard, and the little nastinesses of small boys were looked upon with hostility; the bigger boys, like the lords temporal of the Middle Ages, used the strength of their... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-13 Two years passed, and Philip was nearly twelve. He was in the first form, within two or three places of the top, and after Christmas when several boys would be leaving for the senior school he would be head boy. He had already quite a collection of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-13 As time went on Philips deformity ceased to interest. It was accepted like one boys red hair and anothers unreasonable corpulence. But meanwhile he had grown horribly sensitive. He never ran if he could help it, because he knew it made his limp more... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-13 Next morning when the clanging of a bell awoke Philip he looked round his cubicle in astonishment. Then a voice sang out, and he remembered where he was. Are you awake, Singer? The partitions of the cubicle were of polished pitch-pine, and there was... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-13 The Careys made up their minds to send Philip to Kings School at Tercanbury. The neighbouring clergy sent their sons there. It was united by long tradition to the Cathedral: its headmaster was an honorary Canon, and a past headmaster was the Archdea... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-13 On the following Sunday, when the Vicar was making his preparations to go into the drawing-room for his napall the actions of his life were conducted with ceremonyand Mrs. Carey was about to go upstairs, Philip asked: What shall I do if Im not allow... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-13 Philip had led always the solitary life of an only child, and his loneliness at the vicarage was no greater than it had been when his mother lived. He made friends with Mary Ann. She was a chubby little person of thirty-five, the daughter of a fishe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-13 Sunday was a day crowded with incident. Mr. Carey was accustomed to say that he was the only man in his parish who worked seven days a week. The household got up half an hour earlier than usual. No lying abed for a poor parson on the day of rest, Mr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-13 One day was very like another at the vicarage. Soon after breakfast Mary Ann brought in The Times. Mr. Carey shared it with two neighbours. He had it from ten till one, when the gardener took it over to Mr. Ellis at the Limes, with whom it remained... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-13 Philip came gradually to know the people he was to live with, and by fragments of conversation, some of it not meant for his ears, learned a good deal both about himself and about his dead parents. Philips father had been much younger than the Vicar... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-13 Philip parted from Emma with tears, but the journey to Blackstable amused him, and, when they arrived, he was resigned and cheerful. Blackstable was sixty miles from London. Giving their luggage to a porter, Mr. Carey set out to walk with Philip to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-13 When they reached the house Mrs. Carey had died init was in a dreary, respectable street between Notting Hill Gate and High Street, KensingtonEmma led Philip into the drawing-room. His uncle was writing letters of thanks for the wreaths which had be... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-13 It was a week later. Philip was sitting on the floor in the drawing-room at Miss Watkins house in Onslow gardens. He was an only child and used to amusing himself. The room was filled with massive furniture, and on each of the sofas were three big c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2022-07-13 The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stu... 阅读全文>>