晨读英语美文100篇 Passage 4. A Little Girl
 音频下载[点击右键另存为][00:01.43]Passage 4. A Little Girl [00:05.59]Sitting on a grassy grave, beneath one of the windows of the church, was a little girl. [00:14.23]With her head bent back she was gazing up at the sky and singing, [00:19.37]while one of her little hands was pointing to a tiny cloud [00:24.08]that hovered like a golden feather above her head. [00:28.56]The sun, which had suddenly become very bright, shining on her glossy hair, [00:35.01]gave it a metallic luster, and it was difficult to say what was the color, dark bronze or black. [00:43.26]So completely absorbed was she in watching the cloud to which her strange song or incantation seemed addressed, [00:52.40]that she did not observe me when I rose and went towards her. [00:57.00]Over her head, high up in the blue, [01:00.50]a lark that was soaring towards the same gauzy cloud was singing, as if in rivalry. [01:07.09]As I slowly approached the child, [01:10.05]I could see by her forehead, which in the sunshine seemed like a globe of pearl, [01:16.28]and especially by her complexion, that she uncommonly lovely. [01:22.19]Her eyes, which at one moment seemed blue-gray, at another violet, [01:27.33]were shaded by long black lashes, curving backward in a most peculiar way, [01:33.25]and these matched in hue her eyebrows, [01:36.53]and the tresses that were tossed about her tender throat were quivering in the sunlight. [01:42.43]All this I did not take in at once; [01:45.28]for at first I could see nothing but those quivering, glittering, changeful eyes turned up into my face. [01:53.26]Gradually the other features, especially the sensitive full-lipped mouth, [01:59.06]grew upon me as I stood silently gazing. [02:02.45]Here seemed to me a more perfect beauty than had ever come to me in my loveliest dreams of beauty. [02:09.79]Yet it was not her beauty so much as the look she gave me that fascinated me, melted me. |
