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2024年3月20日发(作者：上海律师)

DaddyLongLegs英语美文

DaddyLongLegs英语美文

Daddy-Long-Legs

Blue Wednesday

The first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful

Day--- a day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage and

forgotten with haste. Every floor must be spotless, every chair

dustless, and every bed without a wrinkle. Ninety-

sevenjsquirming little orphans must be scrubbed and combed

and buttoned into freshly starched ginghams; and all ninety-

seven reminded of their manners, and told to say, "Yes, sir,"

"No,sir," whenever a trustee spoke.

It was a destressing time; and poor Jerusha Abbott, being the

oldest orphan, had to bear the brunt of it. But this particular first

Wednesday, like its predecessors, finaly dragged itself to a close.

Jerusha escaped from the pantry where she had been making

sandwiches for the asylum"s guests, and truned upstairs to

accomplish her regular work. Her special care was room F, where

eleven little tots, from four to seven, occupied eleven little tots

set in a row. Jerusha assembled her charges, straightened their

rumpled frocks, wiped their noses, and started them in an orderly

and willing line towards the dinning-room to engage themselves

for a blessed half hour with bread and milk and prune pudding.

Then she dropped down on the window seat and leaned

throbbing temples against the cool glass. She had been on her

feet since five that morning, doing everybody"s bidding, scolded

and hurried by a nervous matron. Mrs. Lippett, behind the scenes,

did not always maintain that calm and pompous dignity with

which she faced an audience of trustees and lady visitors. Jerusha

gazed out across a broad stretch of frozen lawn, beyond the tall

iron paling that marked the confines of the asylum, down

undualting ridges sprinkled with country estates, to the spires of

the village rising from the midst of bare trees.


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