柴科婷英美短篇小说10300120159 of self-preservation. He thought of the evening he had spent in the bosom of Down-by-the-starn"Hemmings' family, receiving his last instructions--the security of that suburban villa, its discouraging gentility; the superior acidity of the Miss Hemmings; the noble names of large contractors, of company promoters, of a peer, dragged with the lightness of gun-carriages across the conversation; the autocracy of Hemmings, rasped up here and there, by some domestic contradiction. It was all so nice and safe--as if the whole thing had been fastened to an anchor sunk beneath the pink cabbages of the drawing-room carpet Hemmings, seeing him off the premises, had said with secrecy: "Little Pippin will have a good thing. We shall make his salary L----. He'll be a great man-quite a king. Ha-ha! Scorrier shook the ashes from his pipe. 'Salary! he thought, straining his ears; 'I wouldn,'t take the place for five thousand pounds a year. And yet it's a fine country and with ironic violence he repeated, ' a dashed fine country Ten days later, having finished his report on the new mine, he stood on the jetty waitng to go abroad the steamer for home God bless you! said Pippin. Tell them they needn ' t be afraid and sometimes when you're at home think of me, eh? Scorrier, scrambling on board, had a confused memory of tears in his eyes, and a convulsive handshake It was eight years before the wheels of life carried Scorrier back to that disenchanted spot, and this time not on the business of the New Colliery Company. He went for another company with a mine some thirty miles away. Before starting, however, he visited Hemmings The secretary was surrounded by pigeon-holes and finer than ever; Scorrier blinked in the full radiance of his courtesy. a little man with eyebrows full of questions, and a grizzled beard was seated in an arm-chair by the fire "You know Mr. Booker, "said Hemmings--"one of my directors. This is Mr Scorrier, 1 The premises:(企业、机构等使用的)经营场地,生产场所。这里指 Hemmings工作的公司。 汽船 13 Convulsive:突然而无法控制的柴科婷 英美短篇小说 10300120159 5 of self-preservation. He thought of the evening he had spent in the bosom of "Down-by-the-starn" Hemmings' family, receiving his last instructions--the security of that suburban villa, its discouraging gentility; the superior acidity of the Miss Hemmings; the noble names of large contractors, of company promoters, of a peer, dragged with the lightness of gun-carriages across the conversation; the autocracy of Hemmings, rasped up here and there, by some domestic contradiction. It was all so nice and safe--as if the whole thing had been fastened to an anchor sunk beneath the pink cabbages of the drawing-room carpet! Hemmings, seeing him off the premises11, had said with secrecy: "Little Pippin will have a good thing. We shall make his salary L----. He'll be a great man-quite a king. Ha-ha!" Scorrier shook the ashes from his pipe. 'Salary!' he thought, straining his ears; 'I wouldn't take the place for five thousand pounds a year. And yet it's a fine country,' and with ironic violence he repeated, 'a dashed fine country!' Ten days later, having finished his report on the new mine, he stood on the jetty waiting to go abroad the steamer12 for home. "God bless you!" said Pippin. "Tell them they needn't be afraid; and sometimes when you're at home think of me, eh?" Scorrier, scrambling on board, had a confused memory of tears in his eyes, and a convulsive 13 handshake. II It was eight years before the wheels of life carried Scorrier back to that disenchanted spot, and this time not on the business of the New Colliery Company. He went for another company with a mine some thirty miles away. Before starting, however, he visited Hemmings. The secretary was surrounded by pigeon-holes and finer than ever; Scorrier blinked in the full radiance of his courtesy. A little man with eyebrows full of questions, and a grizzled beard, was seated in an arm-chair by the fire. "You know Mr. Booker," said Hemmings--"one of my directors. This is Mr. Scorrier, 11 The premises: （企业、机构等使用的）经营场地，生产场所。这里指 Hemmings 工作的公司。 12 Steamer: 汽船 13 Convulsive: 突然而无法控制的