Tono-Bungay
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共 137 题- Tono-Bungay
- Contents
- II
- III
- IV
- I don’t jeer now. I’m not so sure.
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- I swore that very readily, and it is a vow I have kept by nature.
- I ran my mind hastily over the professions.
- IX
- I couldn’t explain.
- II
- III
- IV
- VI
- I said I had not.
- I stepped up into her compartment as she bent downward.
- VII
- VIII
- I was sorting up patent medicines in the corner.
- II
- III
- IV
- VI
- I listened.
- VII
- II
- III
- I walked round, wrung his hand, and we surveyed one another.
- IV
- I supplied my name. “I knew,” I said, “you were a student here.”
- I quite understood the workgirls were dreadfully common.
- I stared at her. “I mean to,” I said.
- VI
- I did.
- II
- III
- I remember certain phases of my indecisions very well.
- IV
- I made noises of remonstrance.
- VI
- I paused for a last moment and nodded yes.
- II
- II
- I burst into laughter that had more than a taste of bitterness.
- III
- I made no answer except an impatient “oh!”
- I laughed abruptly.
- IV
- I would come home hoping nothing, expecting nothing.
- VI
- VII
- I stared at her. It was the most amazing moment in any life....
- I felt a spasm of petulant annoyance at this unexpected catastrophe.
- I shrugged my shoulders.
- I had no answer.
- VIII
- IX
- I felt her standing behind me as I spoke to the cab man.
- I wonder—I suppose she ran upstairs.
- I laughed at the consternation in his face.
- XI
- II
- I was puzzled. “Aquarium-faced?”
- III
- IV
- CONTENTS.
- THE BEST PILL IN THE WORLD FOR AN IRREGULAR LIVER
- VI
- II
- I wonder now what it was I said that was “frivolous.”
- III
- I handed him the cigar-box.
- I had never seen my uncle so immensely serious.
- IV
- I attempted, I think, some commonplace compliment.
- I wonder if it IS the old pawnshop in the blood.
- VI
- I reflected. “They will” I said. “They’re used to liking to know.”...
- VII
- VIII
- I nodded.
- IX
- II
- III
- I sounded an interrogative note and decapitated an egg.
- I invented a view for her.
- IV
- VI
- I asked her to marry me.
- VII
- I passed from such megalomania to petty accusations.
- I caught an early train and went up to the Hardingham.
- I began to ask questions and irritated him instantly.
- I jumped up and went and stared out at the fog.
- I turned on him. “I’ve been up in the air,” I said.
- I took it up and read:
- II
- I had a ridiculous persuasion that I was “saving the situation.”
- I turned over the pages without any effect on her playing.
- I looked about me at darkness and rain.
- I told her to-morrow.
- III
- IV
- I stated the case concisely.
- VI
- I had a preposterous idea. “He mustn’t get away and tell them!”
- I reloaded.
- VII
- II
- III
- I was roused from such thoughts by the sound of footsteps behind me.
- I stared at him for a moment, and then got off the stile.
- I stood thinking him over.
- IV
- I lifted it.
- VI
- VII
- I stared at him amazed. His sunken eyes were very grave.
- VIII
- IX
- I did not instantly rise. I stared at her. “_You!_” I said.
- She looked at me steadily. “Me,” she said
- I roused myself from my preoccupation.
- II
- I hesitated.
- III
- I asked her to marry me once again.
- I asked her to marry me in a year’s time. She shook her head.
- I tried to keep up the heroic note, but she would not listen to it.
- IV
- II
- I have thought much of that bright afternoon’s panorama.
- III
- IV