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1、【英文读物】The Boy from Green Ginger LandCHAPTER I THREE CHILDREN AND A DOGEmmeline, its your turn to choose a game to-day. What story shall we do?No, Micky; its your turn, put in his twin sister Kitty. Emmeline chose the day before yesterday.I know its my turn really, Kitty, but gentlemen always let lad
2、ies choose, said eight-year-old Micky with dignity. Id very much advise “Swiss Family Robinson,” because it seems such a splendid opportunity, now the curtain-rods are down, to use the short ones as sugar-canes; and Marys so sorry were going away to-morrow that she wont be cross even if the paint do
3、es get a little kicked off the bath when its being wrecked.Micky, I think its horrid of you to talk of Marys being sorry like that, said Emmelinejust2 as if you didnt care a bit about our having to leave the home of a lifetime, and the only real friend who has been with us since we were babies, to g
4、o and live with an aunt who doesnt care for us!How do you know Aunt Grace doesnt care for us? Shes always very jolly when she comes here, and she never forgets birthdays, said Micky, who had a sense of justice. She sends such sensible things, toopostal orders, or steam-engines that really work, or r
5、eal good books of adventure. She never gives you poetry-books. This last was a sore point with Micky just then, for his godmother had recently presented him with a gilt-edged volume of The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, for which he had been expected to write a laborious round-hand letter of
6、thanks.Presents are all very well, but they dont prove that a person loves you, said Emmeline; and as to her being jolly when she comes here, she never stays more than a day or two at a time, and always seems in a great hurry to get back to London again. Do you think, if she had really cared anythin
7、g about us, she would have left us a whole year after darling mother died before offering to come and look after us?This was rather out of Mickys depth, so he prudently changed the subject. Well, lets get3 started with the game, he said, else we shall have to get tidy for tea before weve even been p
8、roperly wrecked.But Emmeline was not to be put off so easily. Micky, she demanded solemnly, how can you be so taken up with story-games when were as good as living a story ourselves?The twins eyes sparkled. Anything savouring of romance was as the breath of life to them, and Emmeline was really rath
9、er impressive when she talked in that grave way.How do you mean? asked Kitty, eagerly.Why, what I have just been saying, replied Emmeline. Here are we, three orphans, left to the care of a worldly auntBut are you quite sure shes worldly? asked Kitty, looking alarmed. Kitty was not altogether clear w
10、hat worldly meant, but from the way Emmeline pronounced the word it sounded like something very bad.Im afraid so, said Emmeline. I remember once, when mother and I spent a night with her in London, and she and her friend kept talking about a ball they had just been to.But balls arent wrong, are they
11、? asked Kitty. Emmeline was twelve, and Kitty regarded as a great authority on all questions of morals.I dont know that theyre exactly wrong,4 acknowledged Emmeline, but they are a great waste of time. When Im grown up I never mean to go to them, but shall spend all my time working for the poor. Bes
12、ides, it isnt only her going to balls that makes me think Aunt Grace worldly, but the way she dresses andeverything. I quite expect that when we know more of her we shall find her just like one of the fine ladies one reads of in books.Will she be cruel to us, do you suppose? asked Kitty with zest. S
13、he did not really believe that merry, good-natured Aunt Grace could be cruel, any more than she really, at the bottom of her heart, believed in a romance of Mickys about a certain blood-thirsty burglar who lived in the spare-room wardrobe, but it made life more exciting to pretend to herself that sh
14、e did.Of course not. What a silly question, Kitty! exclaimed Emmeline impatiently. I dare say she will be too busy with parties and so on to bother herself much about us, but shell be quite kindat least, to us. Punch is the only one I feel at all doubtful about. She flung herself down on to the hear
15、thrug, and rested her head against that of a fox-terrier who was lying there half asleep, and who gave a little growl of remonstrance at being disturbed. We hadnt got him when she was here last, you5 see, so we cant tell what shell think of him. I shouldnt a bit wonder if she didnt let us bring him
16、to Woodsleigh, or even if she does, shell keep him chained up all day, poor darling! People who think much about clothes never do like dogs, except just silly little toy things.Micky and Kitty broke out together in a chorus of indignation and horror.If they are so horrid as to chain Punch up in the
17、kennel all day I shall jolly well stay out with him and keep him company! shouted Micky.Oh, Emmeline, you dont really think theres any danger of Aunt Grace not letting darling Punch come? said Kitty, almost in tears.Well, I hope not, said Emmeline; anyhow Ive written to her about it, so till weve ha
18、d time to get her answer theres no use worrying any more. There was not, but the very suggestion that Punch might have to be left behind had cast a gloom upon the partya gloom which did not altogether lift even when the brilliant idea struck Micky that the brooms in the housemaids cupboard, if place
19、d upside down and balanced against the wall, would make excellent palm-trees for the Robinsons desert island.On the whole, Emmeline was the happiest of the three just then, for, grieved as she was at leaving Mary and possibly Punch, the prospect6 of going to live with her aunt was not altogether wit
20、hout its secret charm for her. The good little girl who had such a beautiful influence on her worldly relations played a prominent part in several of her favourite books, and it was that part which Emmeline pictured herself playing with regard to Aunt Grace. She would have been ashamed to express th
21、is idea in so many words even to herself, far more to the twins, but it none the less reconciled her a good deal to the new life which lay before them.Emmeline Bolton had always been a child of the type whose virtue specially appeals to nurses. All the grown-up people, indeed, who had ever been brou
22、ght much into contact with her agreed in considering her a very good girl. In some respects she deserved their favourable opinion, for she was truthful, obedient, and conscientious by nature, but perhaps the fact that she had never been very strong had more to do with her reputation for goodness tha
23、n she herself or anyone else quite realised.The child lived in an atmosphere of warm and constant approval which was not altogether wholesome. Such had been the state of affairs two years ago, when all three children had fallen ill of measles. Micky and Kitty had had the disease lightly, but with Em
24、meline it took a serious form. For two days and nights she had7 lain delirious, and there came a moment when Mary, believing her to be unconscious, had sobbed out to the trained nurse: I always had a feeling that the dear child was too sweet and good to be long for this world!This presentiment prove
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