老太爷

While Wu Sun-fu and the Tu couple were picking their way across the deck of the tug, a cabin boy helped Old Mr. Wu out on deck and sat him down in the cane-chair.

荪甫他们三位走上了那"公司船"的甲板时，吴老太爷已经由云飞的茶房扶出来坐上藤椅子了。

The new car drove up, while the bearers landed the cane- chair with its occupant. They got the old man settled in the car , and Mrs. Tu took her place beside him.

一八八九号的车子开到了，藤椅子也上了岸，吴老太爷也被扶进汽车里坐定了，二小姐——杜姑太太跟着便坐在老太爷旁边。

Now, go straight back to the factory and put up a notice announcing a paid half-holiday this afternoon in memory of the late Old Mr.

现在你立刻回厂去出布告：因为老太爷故世了，今天下午放假半天，工钱照给。

Unexpectedly, his old father added at the other end," I even heard your wife's malediction to me at a low voice from the next-door neighbor yesterday."

"好使，好使，可好使啦"，儿子听了很高兴，谁知老太爷接着又从电话那端说，"昨天，你老婆从隔壁邻居家小声骂我我都听见了。"

Unexpectedly, his old father added attheother end, I even heard your wife's malediction to me at alowvoice from the next-door neighbor yesterday.

好使，好使，可好使啦"，儿子听了很高兴，谁知老太爷接着又从电话那端说，"昨天，你老婆从隔壁邻居家小声骂我我都听见了。

Unexpectedly, his old father added attheother end, I even heard your wife's malediction to me at alowvoice from the next-doorneighboryesterday.

""好使，好使，可好使啦"，儿子听了很高兴，谁知老太爷接着又从电话那端说，"昨天，你老婆从隔壁邻居家小声骂我我都听见了。

As she sat there intoning the verses of the book with the blue smoke from the incense curling round her, she could imagine herself back in the study of her old home. Her father's pious face floated before her, and she was so overcome that her eyes filled

藏香的青烟在空中袅绕，四小姐嘴里默诵那《太上感应篇》，心里便觉得已不在上海而在故乡老屋那书斋，老太爷生前的道貌就唤回到她眼前，她忽然感动到几乎滴眼泪。

It was a strange, strident cry - a flare of light in an old flicker ing life

在这一声叫喊中，吴老太爷的残余生命力似乎又复旺炽了

It was a strange, strident cry - a flare of light in an old flickering life

在这一声叫喊中，吴老太爷的残余生命力似乎又复旺炽了

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失