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1、国外英文文学系列 No NameTitle: No NameAuthor: Wilkie Collins PREFACE.THE main purpose of this story is to appeal to the readers interest in a subject which has been the theme of some of the greatest writers, living and deadbut which has never been, and can never be, exhausted, because it is a subject eterna
2、lly interesting to all mankind. Here is one more book that depicts the struggle of a human creature, under those opposing influences of Good and Evil, which we have all felt, which we have all known. It has been my aim to make the character of “Magdalen,” which personifies this struggle, a pathetic
3、character even in its perversity and its error; and I have tried hard to attain this result by the least obtrusive and the least artificial of all meansby a resolute adherence throughout to the truth as it is in Nature. This design was no easy one to accomplish; and it has been a great encouragement
4、 to me (during the publication of my story in its periodical form) to know, on the authority of many readers, that the object which I had proposed to myself, I might, in some degree, consider as an object achieved.Round the central figure in the narrative other characters will be found grouped, in s
5、harp contrastcontrast, for the most part, in which I have endeavored to make the element of humor mainly predominant. I have sought to impart this relief to the more serious passages in the book, not only because I believe myself to be justified in doing so by the laws of Artbut because experience h
6、as taught me (what the experience of my readers will doubtless confirm) that there is no such moral phenomenon as unmixed tragedy to be found in the world around us. Look where we may, the dark threads and the light cross each other perpetually in the texture of human life.To pass from the Character
7、s to the Story, it will be seen that the narrative related in these pages has been constructed on a plan which differs from the plan followed in my last novel, and in some other of my works published at an earlier date. The only Secret contained in this book is revealed midway in the first volume. F
8、rom that point, all the main events of the story are purposely foreshadowed before they take placemy present design being to rouse the readers interest in following the train of circumstances by which these foreseen events are brought about. In trying this new ground, I am not turning my back in dou
9、bt on the ground which I have passed over already. My one object in following a new course is to enlarge the range of my studies in the art of writing fiction, and to vary the form in which I make my appeal to the reader, as attractively as I can.There is no need for me to add more to these few pref
10、atory words than is here written. What I might otherwise have wished to say in this place, I have endeavored to make the book itself say for me.TO FRANCIS CARR BEARD (FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND), IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE TIME WHEN THE CLOSING SCENES OF THIS STORY WERE WRITTEN. T
11、HE FIRST SCENE.COMBE-RAVEN, SOMERSETSHIRE.CHAPTER I.THE hands on the hall-clock pointed to half-past six in the morning. The house was a country residence in West Somersetshire, called Combe-Raven. The day was the fourth of March, and the year was eighteen hundred and forty-six.No sounds but the ste
12、ady ticking of the clock, and the lumpish snoring of a large dog stretched on a mat outside the dining-room door, disturbed the mysterious morning stillness of hall and staircase. Who were the sleepers hidden in the upper regions? Let the house reveal its own secrets; and, one by one, as they descen
13、d the stairs from their beds, let the sleepers disclose themselves.As the clock pointed to a quarter to seven, the dog woke and shook himself. After waiting in vain for the footman, who was accustomed to let him out, the animal wandered restlessly from one closed door to another on the ground-floor;
14、 and, returning to his mat in great perplexity, appealed to the sleeping family with a long and melancholy howl.Before the last notes of the dogs remonstrance had died away, the oaken stairs in the higher regions of the house creaked under slowly-descending footsteps. In a minute more the first of t
15、he female servants made her appearance, with a dingy woolen shawl over her shouldersfor the March morning was bleak; and rheumatism and the cook were old acquaintances.Receiving the dogs first cordial advances with the worst possible grace, the cook slowly opened the hall door and let the animal out
16、. It was a wild morning. Over a spacious lawn, and behind a black plantation of firs, the rising sun rent its way upward through piles of ragged gray cloud; heavy drops of rain fell few and far between; the March wind shuddered round the corners of the house, and the wet trees swayed wearily.Seven o
17、clock struck; and the signs of domestic life began to show themselves in more rapid succession.The housemaid came downtall and slim, with the state of the spring temperature written redly on her nose. The ladys-maid followedyoung, smart, plump, and sleepy. The kitchen-maid came nextafflicted with th
18、e face-ache, and making no secret of her sufferings. Last of all, the footman appeared, yawning disconsolately; the living picture of a man who felt that he had been defrauded of his fair nights rest.The conversation of the servants, when they assembled before the slowly lighting kitchen fire, refer
19、red to a recent family event, and turned at starting on this question: Had Thomas, the footman, seen anything of the concert at Clifton, at which his master and the two young ladies had been present on the previous night? Yes; Thomas had heard the concert; he had been paid for to go in at the back;
20、it was a loud concert; it was a hot concert; it was described at the top of the bills as Grand; whether it was worth traveling sixteen miles to hear by railway, with the additional hardship of going back nineteen miles by road, at half-past one in the morningwas a question which he would leave his m
21、aster and the young ladies to decide; his own opinion, in the meantime, being unhesitatingly, No. Further inquiries, on the part of all the female servants in succession, elicited no additional information of any sort. Thomas could hum none of the songs, and could describe none of the ladies dresses
22、. His audience, accordingly, gave him up in despair; and the kitchen small-talk flowed back into its ordinary channels, until the clock struck eight and startled the assembled servants into separating for their mornings work.A quarter past eight, and nothing happened. Half-pastand more signs of life
23、 appeared from the bedroom regions. The next member of the family who came downstairs was Mr. Andrew Vanstone, the master of the house.Tall, stout, and uprightwith bright blue eyes, and healthy, florid complexionhis brown plush shooting-jacket carelessly buttoned awry; his vixenish little Scotch ter
24、rier barking unrebuked at his heels; one hand thrust into his waistcoat pocket, and the other smacking the banisters cheerfully as he came downstairs humming a tuneMr. Vanstone showed his character on the surface of him freely to all men. An easy, hearty, handsome, good-humored gentleman, who walked
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