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1、1国外文学英文系列国外文学英文系列 Through One AdministrationTitle:Through One AdministrationAuthor:Frances Hodgson BurnettCHAPTER I.Eight years before the Administration rendered important by the series of events and incidentswhich form the present story,there had come to Washington,on a farewell visit to a distant
2、relative with whom he was rather a favorite,a young officer who was on the point of leaving thecivilized world for a far-away Western military station.The name of the young officer was PhilipTredennis.His relative and entertainer was a certain well-known entomologist,whom it will besafe to call Prof
3、essor Herrick.At the Smithsonian and in all scientific circles,Professor Herricksname was a familiar one.He was considered an enviable as well as an able man.He hadestablished himself in Washington because he found men there whose tastes and pursuits werecongenial with his own,and because the softne
4、ss of the climate suited him;he was rich enoughto be free from all anxiety and to enjoy the delightful liberty of pursuing his scientific laborsbecause they were his pleasure,and not because he was dependent upon their results.He had aquiet and charming home,an excellent matter-of-fact wife,and one
5、daughter,who was beingeducated in a northern city,and who was said to be as bright and attractive as one could wish ayoung creature to be.Of this daughter Tredennis had known very little,except that she enjoyed an existence and camehome at long intervals for the holidays,when it did not happenPg 2 t
6、hat she was sent to the seaor the mountains with her mother instead.The professor himself seemed to know but little of her.He was a quiet and intensely studiousperson,taking small interest in the ordinary world and appearing always slightly surprised whenhis wife spoke to him;still,his manner toward
7、 her was as gentle and painstaking as if she hadbeen the rarest possible beetle,and the only one of her species to be found in any knowncollection,though perhaps the interest she awakened in him was not so great as it might havebeen under such exceptionally favorable circumstances.She was not a bril
8、liant or far-seeingwoman,and her opinions of entomology and,indeed,of science in general,were vague,and2obscured by objections to small boxes,glass cases,long pins,and chloroform,and specimens ofall orders.So,observing this,Tredennis felt it not at all unnatural that he should not hear much of hisda
9、ughter from the professor.Why his relative liked him the young man was not at all sure,though at times he had felt the only solution of the mystery to be that he liked him because histendency was toward silence and books and research of all kinds.He thought he was certain thatthe professor did like
10、him.He had invited him to visit him in Washington,and had taken him tothe Smithsonian,and rambled from room to room with him,bestowing upon him tomes ofinformation in the simplest and most natural manner;filled with the quietest interest himself andentirely prepared to find his feeling shared by his
11、 charge.He had given into his hands the mosttreasured volumes in his library,and had even seemed pleased to have him seated near himwhen he sat at work.At all events,it was an established fact that a friendly feeling existedbetween them,and that if it had been his habit to refer to his daughter,he w
12、ould have spoken ofher to Tredennis.But Tredennis heard nothing of her until he had been some days inPg 3Washington,and then it was Mrs.Herrick who spoke of her.Nathan,she said one evening at dinner,Bertha will be home on Tuesday.The professor laid his spoon down as if he had rather unexpectedly dis
13、covered that he had hadenough soup.Bertha,he said.Indeed!Next Tuesday.Well,of course,we must be ready for her.Do you wantany money,my dear?But,of course,you will want money when she comes,if she has finishedschool,as I think you said she had.I shall want money to pay her bills,answered Mrs.Herrick.S
14、he will bring them with her.Heraunt has had her things made in New York.Yes,said the professor,I dare say they will be more satisfactory.What kind of things,forinstance,Catherine?Dresses,replied Mrs.Herrick,and things of that sort.You know she is to come out thisseason.To come out,remarked the profe
15、ssor,carefully giving the matter his undivided attention.Ihope she will enjoy it.What sort of a ceremony is it?And after a young person has come outdoes she ever go in,and is there any particular pageant attached to such aa contingency?When she comes out,answered Mrs.Herrick,taking a purely practica
16、l view of the affair,shebegins to go to parties,to balls,and receptions,and lunches;which she does not do when she isgoing to schools.It isnt considered proper,and it wouldnt give her any time for her studies.Bertha hasnt been allowed to go out at all.Her aunt Maria has been very particular about it
17、,andshe will enjoy things all the more because they are quite new to her.I dare say she will be very3gay this winter.Washington is a very good place for a girl to come out in.After dinner,when they retired to the library together,it occurred to Tredennis that the professorwasPg 4 bestowing some thou
18、ght upon his paternal position,and his first observation provedthat this was the case.It is a most wonderful thing that a few brief years should make such changes,he said.It seemsimpossible that so short a time should change a small and exceedingly red infant into a youngperson returned from school
19、in the most complete condition,and ready to come out.She wasnot interesting as an infant.I tried to find her so,but failed,though it was insisted that she wasan unusually intelligent baby,and I have not seen much of her of late years.When she wasgrowing it was thought that the climate of Washington
20、was not good for her.I am really a littlecurious about her.My views of girls are extremely undefined.I have always been a bookworm.Ihave not known girls.They have not come within my radius.I remember one I once knew yearsago,but that is all.It was when I was a younger man.I think she was a year or s
21、o older thanBertha.She was very interestingas a study.She used to bewilder me.He walked over to the table,and began to turn over some papers.She had gray eyes,he said,in a rather lower voice,gray eyes.He was so quiet for some time that Tredennis thought he had forgotten what he had been talkingabout
22、;but,after a pause of at least three minutes,he spoke again.I would not be at all sorry,he said,if Bertha was a little like her.I suppose,he added,referring seriously to Tredennis,I suppose they are all more or less alike.I thinkfaltered Tredennis,perhaps so.He did not feel himself an authority.The
23、professor stood still a moment,regarding the fireabstractly.She had gray eyes,he said again,gray eyes!and immediately afterward returned to histable,seated himself,and fell to work.The next week Bertha arrived,and to her distantPg 5 relative her arrival was a revelation.Shedescended upon the quiet h
24、ousehold with her trunks,her delight in their contents,heranticipation of her first season,her fresh and rather surprised exultation in her own small powersand charms,which were just revealing themselves to herlike a young whirlwind.Her motherawakened to a most maternal interest in the gayeties into
25、 which she was to be drawn;the veryservants were absorbed in the all-pervading excitement,which at length penetrated to theprofessors study itself,and aroused him from his entomological reveries.After she had been in the house a week,he began to examine the girl through his spectacles with4great car
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