正文 第10章 The Letter of Miss Jerusha to Daddy-Legs (6)(1 / 3)

This is an extra letter in the middle of the month because I'm sort of lonely tonight.It's awfully stormy;the snow is beating against my tower.All the lights are out on the campus,but I drank black coffee and I can't go to sleep.

I had a supper party this evening consisting of Sallie and Julia and Leonora Fenton-and sardines and toasted muffins and salad and fudge and coffee.Julia said she'd had a good time,but Sallie stayed to help wash the dishes.

I might,very usefully,put some time on Latin tonight-but,there's no doubt about it,I'm a very languid Latin scholar.We've finished Livy and De Senectute and are now engaged with De Amicitia(pronounced Damn Icitia)。

Should you mind,just for a little while,pretending you are my grandmother?Sallie has one and Julia and Leonora each two,and they were all comparing them tonight.I can't think of anything I'd rather have,it's such a respectable relationship.So,if you really don't object-when I went into town yesterday,I saw the sweetest cap of Cluny lace trimmed with lavender ribbon.I am going to make you a present of it on your eighty-third birthday.

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That's the clock in the chapel tower striking twelve.I believe I am sleepy after all.

Good night,Granny.

I love you dearly.

Judy

The Ides of March

Dear D.L.L.

I am studying Latin prose composition.I have been studying it.I shall be studying it.I shall be about to have been studying it.My reexamination comes the 7th hour next Tuesday,and I am going to pass or BUST.So you may expect to hear from me next,whole and happy and free from conditions,or in fragments.

I will write a respectable letter when it's over.Tonight I have a pressing engagement with the Ablative Absolute.

Yours-in evident haste,

J.A.

March 26th

Mr.D.L.L.Smith,

Sir:You never answer any questions;you never show the slightest interest in anything I do.You are probably the horridest one of all those horrid trustees,and the reason you are educating me is,not because you care a bit about me,but from a sense of duty.