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[精品]a.v.laider(A.V.雷德)
A. V. Laider
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A. V. Laider
By MAX BEERBOHM
A. V. Laider
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I UNPACKED my things and went down to await luncheon.
It was good to be here again in this little old sleepy hostel by the sea.
Hostel I say, though it spelt itself without an s and even placed a
circumflex above the o. It made no other pretension. It was very cozy
indeed.
I had been here just a year before, in mid-February, after an attack of
influenza. And now I had returned, after an attack of influenza. Nothing
was changed. It had been raining when I left, and the waiter-- there was
but a single, a very old waiter--had told me it was only a shower. That
waiter was still here, not a day older. And the shower had not ceased.
Steadfastly it fell on to the sands, steadfastly into the iron-gray sea. I
stood looking out at it from the windows of the hall, admiring it very
much. There seemed to be little else to do. What little there was I did. I
mastered the contents of a blue hand-bill which, pinned to the wall just
beneath the framed engraving of Queen Victorias Coronation, gave token
of a concert that was to be held--or, rather, was to have been held some
weeks ago--in the town hall for the benefit of the Life-Boat Fund. I looked
at the barometer, tapped it, was not the wiser. I wandered to the letter-
board.
These letter-boards always fascinate me. Usually some two or three of
the envelops stuck into the cross-garterings have a certain newness and
freshness. They seem sure they will yet be claimed. Why not? Why
SHOULDNT John Doe, Esq., or Mrs. Richard Roe turn up at any moment?
I do not know. I can only say that nothing in the world seems to me more
unlikely. Thus it is that these young bright envelops touch my heart even
more than do their dusty and sallowed seniors. Sour resignation is less
touching than impatience for what will not be, than the eagerness that has
to wane and wither. Soured beyond measure these old envelops are. They
are not nearly so nice as they should be to the young ones. They lose n
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