"是的,女士??rdquo;

"N--no," hesitated Tom, turning pale.


Between the turf-covered slope and the gigantic perpendicular rock intervened a 
weather-worn series of jagged edges, forming a face yet steeper than the former 
slope. As he slowly slid inch by inch upon these, Knight made a last desperate 
dash at the lowest tuft of vegetation--the last outlying knot of starved 
herbage ere the rock appeared in all its bareness. It arrested his further 
descent. Knight was now literally suspended by his arms; but the incline of the 
brow being what engineers would call about a quarter in one, it was sufficient 
to relieve his arms of a portion of his weight, but was very far from offering 
an adequately flat face to support him.


The vicar, who had listened with a critical compression of the lips to this 
school-boy recitation, and by reason of his imperfect hearing had missed the 
marked realism of Stephen's tone in the English words, now said hesitatingly: 
'By the bye, Mr. Smith (I know you'll excuse my curiosity), though your 
translation was unexceptionably correct and close, you have a way of 
pronouncing your Latin which to me seems most peculiar. Not that the 
pronunciation of a dead language is of much importance; yet your accents and 
quantities have a grotesque sound to my ears. I thought first that you had 
acquired your way of breathing the vowels from some of the northern colleges; 
but it cannot be so with the quantities. What I was going to ask was, if your 
instructor in the classics could possibly have been an Oxford or Cambridge man?'


He put on a more vigorous mood.


 

2019年11月23日

21:36:49

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