Lady Baltimore
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共 63 题- LADY BALTIMORE
- By Owen Wister
- To the Reader
- I have never known, and I fear we might have had a tragedy.
- LADY BALTIMORE
- I: A Word about My Aunt
- II: I Vary My Lunch
- I blankly repealed her words. “Ladies talking?”
- III: Kings Port Talks
- I had never heard of her.
- I sat silent, thinking of the Exchange.
- I bowed. “I had the pleasure to see and hear him order a wedding cake.”
- I did not open my mouth any more; but my mind’s mouth was wide open.
- I told her that it was.
- IV: THE GIRL BEHIND THE COUNTER--I
- The severe lady continued to me:--
- I assured her that it was a composition of the highest merit.
- I eagerly plunged in with the obvious question:--
- I had a short laugh. “Oh, if you come to the simplicity!”
- V: The Boy of the Cake
- I told him that I should consider myself undeservedly privileged.
- I smiled urbanely. “If the truth is a compliment!”
- VI: In the Churchyard
- I laughed. “Oh, I fancy there are more than two of us in the country.”
- I suppose I must have been silent after finishing this letter.
- I didn’t see that he had gone back to my word. “Roman Empire, you mean?”
- I met his question with another: “What reasons can be urged against it?”
- I filled this out. “You’ll see very nice people doing it everywhere.”
- VII: The Girl Behind the Counter--II
- I came squarely at it. “And so you wish him to resign his position?”
- VIII: Midsummer-Night’s Dream
- ODE ON INTIMATIONS OF ROYALTY
- IX: Juno
- X: High Walk and the Ladies
- I laughed heartily. “Everything’s mentioned!”
- XI: Daddy Ben and His Seed
- XII: From the Bedside
- XIII: The Girl Behind the Counter--III
- I plunged into it at once. “I have a confession to make.”
- I waited for more, and a little more came.
- I paused, but she merely looked at me, and her eyes were hard.
- XIV: The Replacers
- Thus Hortense; and at that Miss La Heu:--
- I didn’t know.
- I turned square on him. “Then she has broken it?”
- XV: What She Came to See
- I pointed to the chimneys. “Are those the phosphate works?”
- XVI: The Steel Wasp
- I gave him a golden recommendation and took my leave of the ladies.
- I saw her eyes settle upon the flowers that I had brought Eliza La Heu.
- XVII: Doing the Handsome Thing
- XVIII: Again the Replacers
- XIX: Udolpho
- XX: What She Wanted Him For
- XXI: Hortense’s Cigarette Goes Out
- I went through my part, giving a solemn, silent, intelligent assent.
- I suppose it gave John time; but even so he was splendid.
- Hortense saw no need of noticing me further
- XXII: Behind the Times
- When it was my turn to shake the hands of bride and groom, John asked:--
- I shook in my shoes. “Why, Aunt, it’s John--”
- As we were rising from table, my Aunt said:--
- XXIV: Post Scriptum