📝 您未登录，登录后完成练习可保存成绩、查看最佳记录。
总字符
0
正确字符
0
错误字符
0
错误率
0.00%
耗时(秒)
0
速度 WPM
0
0 / 71
1An Opinion Worn out by anxious watching, Mr. Lorry fell asleep at his post. On the tenth morning of his suspense, he was
2startled by the shining of the sun into the room where a heavy slumber had overtaken him when it was dark night. He
3rubbed his eyes and roused himself; but he doubted, when he had done so, whether he was not still asleep. For, going to
4the door of the Doctor's room and looking in, he perceived that the shoemaker's bench and tools were put aside again,
5and that the Doctor himself sat reading at the window. He was in his usual morning dress, and his face (which Mr. Lorry
6could distinctly see), though still very pale, was calmly studious and attentive. Even when he had satisfied himself
7that he was awake, Mr. Lorry felt giddily uncertain for some few moments whether the late shoemaking might not be a
8disturbed dream of his own; for, did not his eyes show him his friend before him in his accustomed clothing and aspect,
9and employed as usual; and was there any sign within their range, that the change of which he had so strong an
10impression had actually happened? It was but the inquiry of his first confusion and astonishment, the answer being
11obvious. If the impression were not produced by a real corresponding and sufficient cause, how came he, Jarvis Lorry,
12there? How came he to have fallen asleep, in his clothes, on the sofa in Doctor Manette's consulting-room, and to be
13debating these points outside the Doctor's bedroom door in the early morning? Within a few minutes, Miss Pross stood
14whispering at his side. If he had had any particle of doubt left, her talk would of necessity have resolved it; but he
15was by that time clear-headed, and had none. He advised that they should let the time go by until the regular
16breakfast-hour, and should then meet the Doctor as if nothing unusual had occurred. If he appeared to be in his
17customary state of mind, Mr. Lorry would then cautiously proceed to seek direction and guidance from the opinion he had
18been, in his anxiety, so anxious to obtain. Miss Pross, submitting herself to his judgment, the scheme was worked out
19with care. Having abundance of time for his usual methodical toilette, Mr. Lorry presented himself at the breakfast-hour
20in his usual white linen, and with his usual neat leg. The Doctor was summoned in the usual way, and came to breakfast.
21So far as it was possible to comprehend him without overstepping those delicate and gradual approaches which Mr. Lorry
22felt to be the only safe advance, he at first supposed that his daughter's marriage had taken place yesterday. An
23incidental allusion, purposely thrown out, to the day of the week, and the day of the month, set him thinking and
24counting, and evidently made him uneasy. In all other respects, however, he was so composedly himself, that Mr. Lorry
25determined to have the aid he sought. And that aid was his own. Therefore, when the breakfast was done and cleared away,
26and he and the Doctor were left together, Mr. Lorry said, feelingly: "My dear Manette, I am anxious to have your
27opinion, in confidence, on a very curious case in which I am deeply interested; that is to say, it is very curious to
28me; perhaps, to your better information it may be less so." Glancing at his hands, which were discoloured by his late
29work, the Doctor looked troubled, and listened attentively. He had already glanced at his hands more than once. "Doctor
30Manette," said Mr. Lorry, touching him affectionately on the arm, "the case is the case of a particularly dear friend of
31mine. Pray give your mind to it, and advise me well for his sake--and above all, for his daughter's--his daughter's, my
32dear Manette." "If I understand," said the Doctor, in a subdued tone, "some mental shock--?" "Yes!" "Be explicit," said
33the Doctor. "Spare no detail." Mr. Lorry saw that they understood one another, and proceeded. "My dear Manette, it is
34the case of an old and a prolonged shock, of great acuteness and severity to the affections, the feelings, the--the--as
35you express it--the mind. The mind. It is the case of a shock under which the sufferer was borne down, one cannot say
36for how long, because I believe he cannot calculate the time himself, and there are no other means of getting at it. It
37is the case of a shock from which the sufferer recovered, by a process that he cannot trace himself--as I once heard him
38publicly relate in a striking manner. It is the case of a shock from which he has recovered, so completely, as to be a
39highly intelligent man, capable of close application of mind, and great exertion of body, and of constantly making fresh
40additions to his stock of knowledge, which was already very large. But, unfortunately, there has been," he paused and
41took a deep breath--"a slight relapse." The Doctor, in a low voice, asked, "Of how long duration?" "Nine days and
42nights." "How did it show itself? I infer," glancing at his hands again, "in the resumption of some old pursuit
43connected with the shock?" "That is the fact." "Now, did you ever see him," asked the Doctor, distinctly and
44collectedly, though in the same low voice, "engaged in that pursuit originally?" "Once." "And when the relapse fell on
45him, was he in most respects--or in all respects--as he was then?" "I think in all respects." "You spoke of his
46daughter. Does his daughter know of the relapse?" "No. It has been kept from her, and I hope will always be kept from
47her. It is known only to myself, and to one other who may be trusted." The Doctor grasped his hand, and murmured, "That
48was very kind. That was very thoughtful!" Mr. Lorry grasped his hand in return, and neither of the two spoke for a
49little while. "Now, my dear Manette," said Mr. Lorry, at length, in his most considerate and most affectionate way, "I
50am a mere man of business, and unfit to cope with such intricate and difficult matters. I do not possess the kind of
51information necessary; I do not possess the kind of intelligence; I want guiding. There is no man in this world on whom
52I could so rely for right guidance, as on you. Tell me, how does this relapse come about? Is there danger of another?
53Could a repetition of it be prevented? How should a repetition of it be treated? How does it come about at all? What can
54I do for my friend? No man ever can have been more desirous in his heart to serve a friend, than I am to serve mine, if
55I knew how. "But I don't know how to originate, in such a case. If your sagacity, knowledge, and experience, could put
56me on the right track, I might be able to do so much; unenlightened and undirected, I can do so little. Pray discuss it
57with me; pray enable me to see it a little more clearly, and teach me how to be a little more useful." Doctor Manette
58sat meditating after these earnest words were spoken, and Mr. Lorry did not press him. "I think it probable," said the
59Doctor, breaking silence with an effort, "that the relapse you have described, my dear friend, was not quite unforeseen
60by its subject." "Was it dreaded by him?" Mr. Lorry ventured to ask. "Very much." He said it with an involuntary
61shudder. "You have no idea how such an apprehension weighs on the sufferer's mind, and how difficult--how almost
62impossible--it is, for him to force himself to utter a word upon the topic that oppresses him." "Would he," asked Mr.
63Lorry, "be sensibly relieved if he could prevail upon himself to impart that secret brooding to any one, when it is on
64him?" "I think so. But it is, as I have told you, next to impossible. I even believe it--in some cases--to be quite
65impossible." "Now," said Mr. Lorry, gently laying his hand on the Doctor's arm again, after a short silence on both
66sides, "to what would you refer this attack?" "I believe," returned Doctor Manette, "that there had been a strong and
67extraordinary revival of the train of thought and remembrance that was the first cause of the malady. Some intense
68associations of a most distressing nature were vividly recalled, I think. It is probable that there had long been a
69dread lurking in his mind, that those associations would be recalled--say, under certain circumstances--say, on a
70particular occasion. He tried to prepare himself in vain; perhaps the effort to prepare himself made him less able to
71bear it." "Would he remember what took place in the relapse?" asked Mr. Lorry, with natural hesitation.
🎉 全部完成！共 71 行