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I was puzzled! Why was this old woman making such a fu about an old copse which was of no use to anybody? She had written letters to the local paper, even to a national, protesting about a projected by-pa to her village, and, looking at a map, the route was nowhere near where she lived and it wasn\'t as if the area was attractive.I was more than puzzled, I was intrigued.
The enquiry into the route of the new by-pa to the village was due to take place shortly, and I wanted to know what it was that motivated her.So it was that I found myself knocking on a cottage door, being received by Mary Smith and then being taken for a walk to the woods.
\"I\'ve always loved this place\", she said, \"it has a lot of memories for me, and for others.We all used it.They called it \'Lovers lane\'.It\'s not much of a lane, and it doesn\'t go anywhere important, but that\'s why we all came here.To be away from people, to be by ourselves \" she added.
It was indeed pleasant that day and the songs of many birds could be heard.Squirrels gazed from the branches, quite bold in their movements, obviously few people paed this way and they had nothing to fear.I could imagine the noise of vehicles paing through these peaceful woods when the by-pa was built, so I felt that she probably had something there but as I hold strong opinions about the needs of the community over-riding the opinions of private individuals, I said nothing.The village was quite a dangerous place because of the traffic especially for old people and children, their safety was more important to me than an old woman\'s whims.
\"Take this tree\", she said pausing after a short while.\"To you it is just that, a tree.Not unlike many others here\".She gently touched the bark.\"Look here, under this branch, what can you see?\"
\"It looks as if someone has done a bit of carving with a knife\" I said after a cursory inspection.
\"Yes, that\'s what it is!\" she said softly.\"There are letters and a lover\'s heart\".
I looked again, this time more carefully.The heart was still there and there was a suggestion of an arrow through it.The letters on one side were indistinct, but on the other an \'R\' was clearly visible with what looked like an \'I\' after it.\"Some budding romance?\" I asked, \"did you know who they were?\"
\"Oh yes, I knew them\", said Mary Smith, \"it says RH loves MS\".
I realised that I could be getting out of my depth, and longed to be in my office, away from here and this old lady, snug, and with a mug of tea in my hand.
She went on …\"He had a penknife with a spike for getting stones from a horse\'s hoof, and I helped him to carve my initials.We were very much in love, but he was going away, and could not tell me what he was involved in the army.I had gueed of course.It was the last evening we ever spent together，because he went away the next day, back to his Unit.\"
Mary Smith was quiet for a while, then she sobbed.\"His mother showed me the telegram.\'Sergeant R Holmes …..Killed in action in the 9)invasion of France\'\".
\"\'I had hoped that you and Robin would one day get married\" she said, \"He was my only child, and I would have loved to be a Granny, they would have been such lovely babies\'- she was like that! \"
\"Two years later she too was dead.\'Pneumonia, following a chill on the chest\' was what the doctor said, but I think it was an old fashioned broken heart.A child would have helped both of us.\"
There was a further pause.Mary Smith gently careed the wounded tree, just as she would have careed him.\"And now they want to take our tree away from me.\" Another quiet sob, then she turned to me.\"I was young and pretty then, I could have had anybody, I wasn\'t always the old woman you see here now.I had everything I wanted in life, a lovely man, health and a future to look forwards to\".
She paused again and looked around.The breeze gently moved through the leaves with a sighing sound.\"There were others, of course, but not a patch on my Robin!\" she said strongly.\"And now I have nothingand more while watching life.
I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding patter if I were not there for the day.
I would never have bought anything just because it was practical, would not show soil or was guaranteed to last a life time.
There would have been more \"I love yous\" ...more \"I\'m sorrys\"...but mostly, given another shots at life, I would seize every minute...look at it and really see it...live it...and never give it back.
英语美文文章摘抄4
Stars on a Snowy Night
The thermometer had dropped to 18 degrees below zero, but still chose to sleep in the porch as usual.In the evening, the most familiar sight to me would be stars in the sky.Though they were a mere sprinkle of twinkling dots, yet I had become so accustomed to them that their occasional absence would bring me loneline and ennui.
It had been snowing all night, not a single star in sight.My roommate and I, each wrapped in a quilt, were seated far apart in a different corner of the porch, facing each other and chatting away.
She exclaimed pointing to something afar, “Look, Venus in rising!” I looked up and saw nothing but a lamp round the bend in a mountain path.I beamed and said pointing to a tiny lamplight on the opposite mountain, “It’s Jupiter over there!”
More and more lights came into sight as we kept pointing here and there.Lights from hurricane lamps flickering about in the pine forest created the scene of a star-studded sky.With the distinction between sky and forest obscured by snowflakes, the numerous lamp-lights now easily paed for as many stars.
Completely lost in a make-believe world, I seemed to see all the lamplights drifting from the ground.With the illusory stars hanging still overhead, I was spared the effort of tracing their positions when I woke up from my dreams in the dead of night.
Thus I found consolation even on a lonely snowy night !
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