02-the death of jean-第3章
按键盘上方向键 ← 或 → 可快速上下翻页,按键盘上的 Enter 键可回到本书目录页,按键盘上方向键 ↑ 可回到本页顶部!
————未阅读完?加入书签已便下次继续阅读!
Autobiography I have told how the Intermezzo and the Largo came
to be associated in my heart with Susy and Livy in their last
hours in this life。
From my windows I saw the hearse and the carriages wind
along the road and gradually grow vague and spectral in the
falling snow; and presently disappear。 Jean was gone out of my
life; and would not come back any more。 Jervis; the cousin she
had played with when they were babies togetherhe and her
beloved old Katywere conducting her to her distant childhood
home; where she will lie by her mother's side once more; in the
company of Susy and Langdon。
DECEMBER 26TH。 The dog came to see me at eight o'clock this
morning。 He was very affectionate; poor orphan! My room will be
his quarters hereafter。
The storm raged all night。 It has raged all the morning。
The snow drives across the landscape in vast clouds; superb;
sublimeand Jean not here to see。
2:30 P。M。It is the time appointed。 The funeral has begun。
Four hundred miles away; but I can see it all; just as if I were
there。 The scene is the library in the Langdon homestead。
Jean's coffin stands where her mother and I stood; forty years
ago; and were married; and where Susy's coffin stood thirteen
years ago; where her mother's stood five years and a half ago;
and where mine will stand after a little time。
FIVE O'CLOCK。It is all over。
When Clara went away two weeks ago to live in Europe; it was
hard; but I could bear it; for I had Jean left。 I said WE would
be a family。 We said we would be close comrades and happyjust
we two。 That fair dream was in my mind when Jean met me at the
steamer last Monday; it was in my mind when she received me at
the door last Tuesday evening。 We were together; WE WERE A
FAMILY! the dream had come trueoh; precisely true; contentedly;
true; satisfyingly true! and remained true two whole days。
And now? Now Jean is in her grave!
In the graveif I can believe it。 God rest her sweet
spirit!
…
1。 Katy Leary; who had been in the service of the Clemens family
for twenty…nine years。
2。 Mr。 Gabrilowitsch had been operated on for appendicitis。