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1、【英文读物】The Yacht ClubPREFACE.The Yacht Club is the second volume of the Yacht Club Series, to which it gives a name; and like its predecessor, is an independent story. The hero has not before appeared, though some of the characters of Little Bobtail take part in the incidents: but each volume may be
2、read understandingly without any knowledge of the contents of the other. In this story, the interest centres in Don John, the Boat-builder, who is certainly a very enterprising young man, though his achievements have been more than paralleled in the domain of actual life.Like the first volume of the
3、 series, the incidents of the story transpire on the waters of the beautiful Penobscot Bay, and on its shores. They include several yacht races, which must be more interesting to those who are engaged in the exciting sport of yachting, than to others. But the principal incidents are distinct from th
4、e aquatic narrative; and those who are not interested in boats and boating will find that Don John and Nellie Patterdale do not spend all their time on the water.6The hero is a young man of high aims and noble purposes: and the writer believes that it is unpardonable to awaken the interest and sympa
5、thy of his readers for any other than high-minded and well-meaning characters. But he is not faultless; he makes some grave mistakes, even while he has high aims. The most important lesson in morals to be derived from his experience is that it is unwise and dangerous for young people to conceal thei
6、r actions from their parents and friends; and that men and women who seek concealment choose darkness because their deeds are evil.Harrison Square, Boston,May 22, 1873.CHAPTER I. DON JOHN OF BELFAST, AND FRIENDS.Why, Don John, how you frightened me! exclaimed Miss Nellie Patterdale, as she sprang up
7、 from her reclining position in a lolling-chair.It was an intensely warm day near the close of June, and the young lady had chosen the coolest and shadiest place she could find on the piazza of her fathers elegant mansion in Belfast. She was as pretty as she was bright and vivacious, and was a gener
8、al favorite among the pupils of the High School, which she attended. She was deeply absorbed in the reading of a story in one of the July magazines, which had12 just come from the post-office, when she heard a step near her. The sound startled her, it was so near; and, looking up, she discovered the
9、 young man whom she had spoken to close beside her. He was not Don John of Austria, but Donald John Ramsay of Belfast, who had been addressed by his companions simply as Don, a natural abbreviation of his first name, until he of Austria happened to be mentioned in the history recitation in school, w
10、hen the whole class looked at Don, and smiled; some of the girls even giggled, and got a check for it; but the republican young gentleman became a titular Spanish hidalgo from that moment. Though he was the son of a boat-builder, by trade a ship carpenter, he was a good-looking, and gentlemanly fell
11、ow, and was treated with kindness and consideration by most of the sons and daughters of the wealthy men of Belfast, who attended the High School. It was hardly a secret that Don John regarded Miss Nellie with especial admiration, or that, while he was polite to all the young ladies, he was particul
12、arly so to her. It is a fact, too, that he blushed when she turned her startled gaze upon him on the13 piazza; and it is just as true that Miss Nellie colored deeply, though it may have been only the natural consequence of her surprise.I beg your pardon, Nellie; I did not mean to frighten you, repli
13、ed Donald.I dont suppose you did, Don John; but you startled me just as much as though you had meant it, added she, with a pleasant smile, so forgiving that the young man had no fear of the consequences. How terribly hot it is! I am almost melted.It is very warm, answered Donald, who, somehow or oth
14、er, found it very difficult to carry on a conversation with Nellie; and his eyes seemed to him to be twice as serviceable as his tongue.It is dreadful warm.And so they went on repeating the same thing over and over again, till there was no other known form of expression for warm weather.How in the w
15、orld did you get to the side of my chair without my hearing you? demanded Nellie, when it was evidently impossible to say anything more about the heat.I came up the front steps, and was walking around on the piazza to your fathers library. I14 didnt see you till you spoke, replied Donald, reminded b
16、y this explanation that he had come to Captain Patterdales house for a purpose. Is Ned at home?No; he has gone up to Searsport to stay over Sunday with uncle Henry.Has he? Im sorry. Is your father at home?He is in his library, and there is some one with him. Wont you sit down, Don John?Thank you, ad
17、ded Donald, seating himself in a rustic chair. It is very warm this afternoon.Nellie actually laughed, for she was conscious of the difficulties of the situationmore so than her visitor. But we must do our herofor such he isthe justice to say, that he did not refer to the exhausted topic with the in
18、tention of confining the conversation to it, but to introduce the business which had called him to the house.It is intensely hot, Don John, laughed Nellie.But I was going to ask you if you would not like to take a sail, said Donald, with a blush. With your father, I mean, added he, with a deeper blu
19、sh, as he realized that he had15 actually asked a girl to go out in a boat with him.I should be delighted to go, but I cant. Mother wont let me go on the water when the sun is out, it hurts my eyes so, answered Nellie; and the young man was sure she was very sorry she could not go.Perhaps we can go
20、after sunset, then, suggested Donald. I am sorry Ned is not at home; for his yacht is finished, and father says the paint is dry enough to use her. We are going to have a little trial trip in her over to Turtle Head, and, perhaps, round by Searsport.Is the Sea Foam really done? asked Nellie, her eye
21、s sparkling with delight.Yes, she is all ready, and father will deliver her to Ned on Monday, if everything works right about her. I thought some of your folks, especially Ned, would like to be in her on the first trip.I should, for one; but I suppose it is no use for me to think of it. My eyes are
22、ever so much better, and I hope I shall be able to sail in the Sea Foam soon.I hope so, too. We expect she will beat the Skylark; father thinks she will.16I dont care whether she does or not, laughed Nellie.Do you think I could see your father just a moment? asked Donald. I only want to know whether
23、 or not he will go with us.I think so; I will go and speak to him. Come in, Don John, replied Nellie, rising from her lolling-chair, and walking around the corner of the house to the front door.Donald followed her. The elegant mansion was located on a corner lot, with a broad hall through the centre
24、 of it, on one side of which was the large drawing-room, and on the other the sitting and dining-rooms. At the end of the great hall was a door opening into the library, a large apartment, which occupied the whole of a one-story addition to the original structure. It had also an independent outside
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