cite her imagination into a passion of love or fear;
and his memory seems to have vanished from her

dull brain as a shadow passes away upon a white
screen. She lives in the cottage and works for Miss

Swaffer. She is Amy Foster for everybody, and
the child is 'Amy Foster's boy.' She calls him

Johnny--which means Little John.
"It is impossible to say whether this name re-

calls anything to her. Does she ever think of the
past? I have seen her hanging over the boy's cot

in a very passion of maternaltenderness. The lit-
tle fellow was lying on his back, a little frightened

at me, but very still, with his big black eyes, with
his fluttered air of a bird in a snare. And looking

at him I seemed to see again the other one--the
father, cast out mysteriously by the sea to perish

in the supremedisaster of loneliness and despair."
End

• imagination [i,mædʒi´neiʃən] n.想象(力) (初中英语单词)
• passion [´pæʃən] n.激情；激怒；恋爱 (初中英语单词)
• cottage [´kɔtidʒ] n.村舍；小屋；小别墅 (初中英语单词)
• mysteriously [mis´tiəriəsli] ad.神秘地；故弄玄虚地 (初中英语单词)
• supreme [su:´pri:m, sju:-] a.最高的，无上的 (初中英语单词)
• disaster [di´zɑ:stə] n.灾难，不幸 (初中英语单词)
• foster [´fɔstə] vt.促进；推动；鼓励 (高中英语单词)
• hanging [´hæŋiŋ] n.绞刑 a.悬挂着的 (高中英语单词)
• tenderness [´tendənis] n.娇嫩；柔软；温柔 (高中英语单词)
• loneliness [´ləunliniz] n.孤独，寂寞 (高中英语单词)
• maternal [mə´tə:nl] a.母亲的；母性(系)的 (英语四级单词)