散文：夜莺与玫瑰Part 9
【英文原文】 So the nightingale pressed closer against the thorn, and louder and louder grew her song, for she sang of the birth of passion in the soul of a man and a maid. And a delicate flush of pink came into the leaves of the rose, like the
散文：夜莺与玫瑰Part 10
Then she gave one last burst of music. The white moon heard it, and she forgot the dawn, and lingered on in the sky. The red rose heard it, and it trembled all over with ecstasy, and opened its petals to the cold morning air. Echo bore it to her purp
散文：夜莺与玫瑰Part 11
【英文原文】 The daughter of the professor was sitting in the doorway winding blue silk on a reel, and her little dog was lying at her feet. You said that you would dance with me if I brought you a red rose, cried the student. Here is the redde
散文：忠诚的朋友Part 1
【英文原文】 The Devoted Friend One morning the old Water-rat put his head out of his hole. He had bright beady eyes and stiff grey whiskers and his tail was like a long bit of black india-rubber. The little ducks were swimming about in the pon
散文：忠诚的朋友Part 2
【英文原文】 And what, pray, is your idea of the duties of a devoted friend? asked a Green Linnet, who was sitting in a willow-tree hard by, and had overheard the conversation. Yes, that is just what I want to know, said the Duck; and she swam
散文：忠诚的朋友Part 3
【英文原文】 Once upon a time, said the Linnet, there was an honest little fellow named Hans. Was he very distinguished? asked the Water-rat. No, answered the Linnet, I don't think he was distinguished at all, except for his kind heart, and his
散文：忠诚的朋友Part 4
【英文原文】 Little Hans had a great many friends, but the most devoted friend of all was big Hugh the Miller. Indeed, so devoted was the rich Miller to little Hans, that be would never go by his garden without leaning over the wall and pluckin
散文：忠诚的朋友Part 5
【英文原文】 'There is no good in my going to see little Hans as long as the snow lasts,' the Miller used to say to his wife, 'for when people are in trouble they should be left alone, and not be bothered by visitors. That at least is my idea a
散文：忠诚的朋友Part 6
【英文原文】 'What a silly boy you are'! cried the Miller; 'I really don't know what is the use of sending you to school. You seem not to learn anything. Why, if little Hans came up here, and saw our warm fire, and our good supper, and our grea
散文：忠诚的朋友Part 7
【英文原文】 Then you are quite behind the age, said the Water-rat. Every good story-teller nowadays starts with the end, and then goes on to the beginning, and concludes with the middle. That is the new method. I heard all about it the other d
散文：忠诚的朋友Part 8
'Good morning, little Hans,' said the Miller. 'Good morning,' said Hans, leaning on his spade, and smiling from ear to ear. 'And how have you been all the winter?' said the Miller. 'Well, really,' cried Hans, 'it is very good of you to ask, very good
散文：忠诚的朋友Part 9
【英文原文】 'Well, the fact is,' said Hans, 'that I was obliged to. You see the winter was a very bad time for me, and I really had no money at all to buy bread with. So I first sold the silver buttons off my Sunday coat, and then I sold my si
散文：忠诚的朋友Part 10
【英文原文】 'Certainly,' cried little Hans, and he ran into the shed and dragged the plank out. 'It is not a very big plank,' said the Miller, looking at it, 'and I am afraid that after I have mended my barn-roof there won't be any left for yo
散文：忠诚的朋友Part 11
【英文原文】 The next day he was nailing up some honeysuckle against the porch, when he heard the Miller's voice calling to him from the road. So he jumped off the ladder, and ran down the garden, and looked over the wall. There was the Miller
散文：忠诚的朋友Part 12
【英文原文】 It was a very hot day, and the road was terribly dusty, and before Hans had reached the sixth milestone he was so tired that he had to sit down and rest. However, he went on bravely, and as last he reached the market. After he had
