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"He got a stomach affliction," I devilled, "so that one mouthful of
spirits turned it outside in. It were wisdom not to drink when
one's tank will not hold the drink."
While we talked Pons was gathering to my bedside my clothes for the
day.
"Drink on, my master," he answered. "It won't hurt you. You'll die
with a sound stomach."
"You mean mine is an iron-lined stomach?" I wilfully misunderstood
him.
"I mean--" he began with a quick peevishness, then broke off as he
realized my teasing and with a pout of his withered lips draped my
new sable cloak upon a chair-back. "Eight hundred ducats," he
sneered. "A thousand goats and a hundred fat oxen in a coat to keep
you warm. A score of farms on my gentleman's fine back."
"And in that a hundred fine farms, with a castle or two thrown in,
to say nothing, perhaps, of a palace," I said, reaching out my hand
and touching the rapier which he was just in the act of depositing
on the chair.
"So your father won with his good right arm," Pons retorted. "But
what your father won he held."
Here Pons paused to hold up to scorn my new scarlet satin doublet--a
wondrous thing of which I had been extravagant.
"Sixty ducats for that," Pons indicted. "Your father'd have seen
all the tailors and Jews of Christendom roasting in hell before he'd
a-paid such a price."
And while we dressed--that is, while Pons helped me to dress--I
continued to quip with him.
"It is quite clear, Pons, that you have not heard the news," I said
slyly.
Whereat up pricked his ears like the old gossip he was.
"Late news?" he queried. "Mayhap from the English Court?"
"Nay," I shook my head. "But news perhaps to you, but old news for
all of that. Have you not heard? The philosophers of Greece were
whispering it nigh two thousand years ago. It is because of that
news that I put twenty fat farms on my back, live at Court, and am
become a dandy. You see, Pons, the world is a most evil place, life
is most sad, all men die, and, being dead . . . well, are dead.
Wherefore, to escape the evil and the sadness, men in these days,
like me, seek amazement, insensibility, and the madnesses of
dalliance."
"But the news, master? What did the philosophers whisper about so
long ago?"
"That God was dead, Pons," I replied solemnly. "Didn't you know
that? God is dead, and I soon shall be, and I wear twenty fat farms
on my back."
"God lives," Pons asserted fervently. "God lives, and his kingdom
is at hand. I tell you, master, it is at hand. It may be no later
than to-morrow that the earth shall pass away."
"So said they in old Rome, Pons, when Nero made torches of them to
light his sports."
Pons regarded me pityingly.
"Too much learning is a sickness," he complained. "I was always
opposed to it. But you must have your will and drag my old body
about with you--a-studying astronomy and numbers in Venice, poetry
and all the Italian FOL-DE-ROLS in Florence, and astrology in Pisa,
and God knows what in that madman country of Germany. Pish for the
philosophers! I tell you, master, I, Pons, your servant, a poor old
man who knows not a letter from a pike-staff--I tell you God lives,
and the time you shall appear before him is short." He paused with
sudden recollection, and added: "He is here, the priest you spoke
of."
On the instant I remembered my engagement.
"Why did you not tell me before?" I demanded angrily.
"What did it matter?" Pons shrugged his shoulders. "Has he not been
waiting two hours as it is?"
"Why didn't you call me?"
He regarded me with a thoughtful, censorious eye.
"And you rolling to bed and shouting like chanticleer, 'Sing cucu,
sing cucu, cucu nu nu cucu, sing cucu, sing cucu, sing cucu, sing
cucu.'"
He mocked me with the senselessrefrain in an ear-jangling falsetto.
Without doubt I had bawled the nonsense out on my way to bed.
spirits turned it outside in. It were wisdom not to drink when
one's tank will not hold the drink."
While we talked Pons was gathering to my bedside my clothes for the
day.
"Drink on, my master," he answered. "It won't hurt you. You'll die
with a sound stomach."
"You mean mine is an iron-lined stomach?" I wilfully misunderstood
him.
"I mean--" he began with a quick peevishness, then broke off as he
realized my teasing and with a pout of his withered lips draped my
new sable cloak upon a chair-back. "Eight hundred ducats," he
sneered. "A thousand goats and a hundred fat oxen in a coat to keep
you warm. A score of farms on my gentleman's fine back."
"And in that a hundred fine farms, with a castle or two thrown in,
to say nothing, perhaps, of a palace," I said, reaching out my hand
and touching the rapier which he was just in the act of depositing
on the chair.
"So your father won with his good right arm," Pons retorted. "But
what your father won he held."
Here Pons paused to hold up to scorn my new scarlet satin doublet--a
wondrous thing of which I had been extravagant.
"Sixty ducats for that," Pons indicted. "Your father'd have seen
all the tailors and Jews of Christendom roasting in hell before he'd
a-paid such a price."
And while we dressed--that is, while Pons helped me to dress--I
continued to quip with him.
"It is quite clear, Pons, that you have not heard the news," I said
slyly.
Whereat up pricked his ears like the old gossip he was.
"Late news?" he queried. "Mayhap from the English Court?"
"Nay," I shook my head. "But news perhaps to you, but old news for
all of that. Have you not heard? The philosophers of Greece were
whispering it nigh two thousand years ago. It is because of that
news that I put twenty fat farms on my back, live at Court, and am
become a dandy. You see, Pons, the world is a most evil place, life
is most sad, all men die, and, being dead . . . well, are dead.
Wherefore, to escape the evil and the sadness, men in these days,
like me, seek amazement, insensibility, and the madnesses of
dalliance."
"But the news, master? What did the philosophers whisper about so
long ago?"
"That God was dead, Pons," I replied solemnly. "Didn't you know
that? God is dead, and I soon shall be, and I wear twenty fat farms
on my back."
"God lives," Pons asserted fervently. "God lives, and his kingdom
is at hand. I tell you, master, it is at hand. It may be no later
than to-morrow that the earth shall pass away."
"So said they in old Rome, Pons, when Nero made torches of them to
light his sports."
Pons regarded me pityingly.
"Too much learning is a sickness," he complained. "I was always
opposed to it. But you must have your will and drag my old body
about with you--a-studying astronomy and numbers in Venice, poetry
and all the Italian FOL-DE-ROLS in Florence, and astrology in Pisa,
and God knows what in that madman country of Germany. Pish for the
philosophers! I tell you, master, I, Pons, your servant, a poor old
man who knows not a letter from a pike-staff--I tell you God lives,
and the time you shall appear before him is short." He paused with
sudden recollection, and added: "He is here, the priest you spoke
of."
On the instant I remembered my engagement.
"Why did you not tell me before?" I demanded angrily.
"What did it matter?" Pons shrugged his shoulders. "Has he not been
waiting two hours as it is?"
"Why didn't you call me?"
He regarded me with a thoughtful, censorious eye.
"And you rolling to bed and shouting like chanticleer, 'Sing cucu,
sing cucu, cucu nu nu cucu, sing cucu, sing cucu, sing cucu, sing
cucu.'"
He mocked me with the senselessrefrain in an ear-jangling falsetto.
Without doubt I had bawled the nonsense out on my way to bed.
- enormous [i´nɔ:məs]
a.巨大地，很，极 (初中英语单词) - wisdom [´wizdəm] n.智慧，聪明，才智 (初中英语单词)
- standing [´stændiŋ] n.持续 a.直立的 (初中英语单词)
- instant [´instənt] a.立即的 n.紧迫；瞬间 (初中英语单词)
- guilty [´gilti] a.有罪的；心虚的 (初中英语单词)
- system [´sistəm] n.系统，体系，制度 (初中英语单词)
- beginning [bi´giniŋ] n.开始，开端；起源 (初中英语单词)
- convey [kən´vei] vt.运送；传达；转让 (初中英语单词)
- pursuit [pə´sju:t] n.追踪；追击；事务 (初中英语单词)
- interval [´intəvəl] n.间隙；(工间)休息 (初中英语单词)
- beheld [bi´held] behold的过去式(分词) (初中英语单词)
- liberal [´libərəl] a.大方的 n.开明的人 (初中英语单词)
- estimate [´estimət, ´estimeit] n.估计；评价 vt.估价 (初中英语单词)
- thoroughly [´θʌrəli] ad.完全地，彻底地 (初中英语单词)
- unable [ʌn´eibəl] a.不能的；无能为力的 (初中英语单词)
- jacket [´dʒækit] n.茄克衫；外套 (初中英语单词)
- orderly [´ɔ:dəli] a.整洁的 n.勤务兵 (初中英语单词)
- intent [in´tent] a.专心致志的 n.意图 (初中英语单词)
- opening [´əupəniŋ] n.开放；开端 a.开始的 (初中英语单词)
- conscious [´kɔnʃəs] a.意识的；自觉的 (初中英语单词)
- spoken [´spəukən] speak的过去分词 (初中英语单词)
- writing [´raitiŋ] n.书写；写作；书法 (初中英语单词)
- enable [i´neibəl] vt.使能够；赋予权力 (初中英语单词)
- despite [di´spait] prep.尽管 (初中英语单词)
- stomach [´stʌmək] n.胃；胃口，食欲 (初中英语单词)
- scarlet [´skɑ:lit] n.猩红色 a.猩红的 (初中英语单词)
- greece [gri:s] n.希腊 (初中英语单词)
- amazement [ə´meizmənt] n.惊愕；惊奇 (初中英语单词)
- whisper [´wispə] v.耳语 n.低语；沙沙声 (初中英语单词)
- learning [´lə:niŋ] n.学习；学问；知识 (初中英语单词)
- italian [i´tæliən] a.意大利 n.意大利人 (初中英语单词)
- priest [pri:st] n.教士；牧师；神父 (初中英语单词)
- extension [ik´stenʃən] n.延长；扩展；延期 (高中英语单词)
- infinite [´infinit] a.无限的，无穷的 (高中英语单词)
- ridiculous [ri´dikjuləs] a.荒谬的；可笑的 (高中英语单词)
- celestial [si´lestiəl] a.天空的，天的 (高中英语单词)
- universe [´ju:nivə:s] n.天地；全人类；银河系 (高中英语单词)
- exquisite [ik´skwizit] a.精巧的；敏锐的 (高中英语单词)
- solitary [´sɔlitəri] a.独居的；孤独的 (高中英语单词)
- comprehension [,kɔmpri´henʃən] n.理解；领悟 (高中英语单词)
- corridor [´kɔridɔ:] n.走廊；指定航路 (高中英语单词)
- inevitable [i´nevitəbəl] a.不可避免的 (高中英语单词)
- impatient [im´peiʃənt] a.不耐烦的，急躁的 (高中英语单词)
- openly [´əupənli] ad.公开地；直率地 (高中英语单词)
- deliberately [di´libərətli] ad.故意地；慎重地 (高中英语单词)
- pronounced [prə´naunst] a.发出音的；显著的 (高中英语单词)
- overthrown [,əuvə´θrəun] overthrow的过去分词 (高中英语单词)
- gossip [´gɔsip] n.&vi.说闲话；聊天 (高中英语单词)
- sadness [´sædnis] n.悲哀；悲痛；凄惨 (高中英语单词)
- solemnly [´sɔləmli] ad.严肃地，庄严地 (高中英语单词)
- venice [´venis] n.威尼斯 (高中英语单词)
- recollection [,rekə´lekʃən] n.回忆；追想；记忆力 (高中英语单词)
- thoughtful [´θɔ:tfəl] a.深思的；体贴的 (高中英语单词)
- refrain [ri´frein] v.抑制；忍住 n.迭句 (高中英语单词)
- nonsense [´nɔnsəns] n.胡说 int.胡说!废话 (高中英语单词)
- starry [´stɑ:ri] a.星光照耀的，闪亮的 (英语四级单词)
- touching [´tʌtʃiŋ] a.动人的 prep.提到 (英语四级单词)
- cleanliness [´kli:nlinis] n.清洁 (英语四级单词)
- considering [kən´sidəriŋ] prep.就…而论 (英语四级单词)
- jingle [´dʒiŋgəl] v.(使)叮当响 (英语四级单词)
- hopelessly [´həuplisli] ad.无希望地，绝望地 (英语四级单词)
- mouthful [´mauθful] n.一口；少量 (英语四级单词)
- gathering [´gæðəriŋ] n.集会，聚集 (英语四级单词)
- bedside [´bedsaid] n.床边 a.护理的 (英语四级单词)
- astronomy [ə´strɔnəmi] n.天文学 (英语四级单词)
- florence [´flɔrəns] n.佛罗伦萨 (英语四级单词)
- senseless [´sensləs] a.无知觉的；愚蠢的 (英语四级单词)
- knuckle [´nʌkəl] n.指关节 vi.屈从 (英语六级单词)
- fleecy [´fli:si] a.羊毛似的 (英语六级单词)
- foregoing [´fɔ:gəuiŋ] a.在前的，上述的 (英语六级单词)
- well-being [´wel´bi:iŋ] n.幸福；健康；福利 (英语六级单词)
- unborn [,ʌn´bɔ:n] a.未生的；将来的 (英语六级单词)
- lazily [´leizili] ad.懒惰地，慢吞吞地 (英语六级单词)
- inwardly [´inwədli] ad.内向；独自地 (英语六级单词)
- deluge [´delju:dʒ] n.大洪水 vt.泛滥 (英语六级单词)
- speaking [´spi:kiŋ] n.说话 a.发言的 (英语六级单词)
- familiarity [fə,mili´æriti] n.熟悉；新近；随便 (英语六级单词)
- christendom [´krisəndəm] n.基督教徒 (英语六级单词)
- fervently [´fə:vəntli] ad.火热地，热烈地 (英语六级单词)
- madman [´mædmən] n.疯子；狂人 (英语六级单词)
- chanticleer [,tʃænti´kliə] n.雄鸡，公鸡 (英语六级单词)
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