正文 Chapter 1

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the m; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no pany, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so peing, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question.

I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the ing home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the sciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Geiana Reed.

The said Eliza, John, and Geiana were now clustered round their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reed on a sofa by the fireside, and with her darlings about her (for the time her quarrelling n) looked perfectly happy. Me, she had dispensed from joining the group; saying, “She regretted to be uhe y of keepi a distance; but……(内容加载失败!)

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