狄更斯哪部作品好 狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第23章Part 3

狄更斯双语小说:《董贝父子》第23章Part 3  

But Florence bloomed there
like the king's fair daughter in the story. Her books
her music
and her daily teachers
were her only real panions
Susan Nipper and Diogenes excepted: of whom the former
in her attendance on the studies of her young mistress
began to grow quite learned herself
while the latter
softened possibly by the same influences
would lay his head upon the window-ledge
and placidly open and shut his eyes upon the street
all through a summer morning;

sometimes pricking up his head to look with great significance after some noisy dog in a cart
who was barking his way along
and sometimes
with an exasperated and unaccountable recollection of his supposed enemy in the neighbourhood
rushing to the door
whence
after a deafening disturbance
he would e jogging back with a ridiculous placency that belonged to him
and lay his jaw upon the window-ledge again
with the air of a dog who had done a public service.

So Florence lived in her wilderness of a home
within the circle of her innocent pursuits and thoughts
and nothing harmed her. She could go down to her father's rooms now
and think of him
and suffer her loving heart humbly to approach him
without fear of repulse. She could look upon the objects that had surrounded him in his sorrow
and could nestle near his chair
and not dread the glance that she so well remembered.

She could render him such little tokens of her duty and service' as putting everything in order for him with her own hands
binding little nosegays for table
changing them as one by one they withered and he did not e back
preparing something for him every' day
and leaving some timid mark of her presence near his usual seat.

To-day
it was a little painted stand for his watch; tomorrow she would be afraid to leave it
and would substitute some other trifle of her making not so likely to attract his eye. Waking in the night
perhaps
she would tremble at the thought of his ing home and angrily rejecting it
and would hurry down with slippered feet and quickly beating heart
and bring it away. At another time
she would only lay her face upon his desk
and leave a kiss there
and a tear.