玉兰

<p>3 Jun 2007 </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;great expectations&gt; chapter one&nbsp;------ Pip and the stranger</p><p>&nbsp; my real name is Philip,but when i was younger i was only able to say Pip, so Pip became my name and this was what everybody called me. i came from a samll vollage in Essex.i lived there with my elder sister .She was older than me bu more than twenty years,Her husband's name was Joe Gargery,who was the village ironworker.my sister raised me because my psrents had died when i was a baby. i was not able to remember them at all.Still ,i would often go to vivit the churchyard, which was about a mile from the village. they were buried there in the graveyard, and i would go to look at their name on the stones.</p>

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玉兰

<p><span lang="EN-US">5 Jun 2007 </span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp; "I promise I'll do what you ask ,sir," I answered .My whole body was shaking from fright.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp;"My friend ,who's just over there, cooks boy's hearts and eats them, So wherever you are , he'll find and take your heart out. Bring the tool need and the food to that wooden building over there early tomorrow morning. Remember, you promised!”</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>The he turned and walked across the wetlands. The chain around his leg made it difficult for him . After he disappeared from sight ,I ran home as fast as I could.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>My sister ,Mrs. Joe Gargery ,raised me since I was a little boy . She believed that all children had to brought up “by hand.” Nobody explained to me what “by hand” meant, but my sister was very proud of the fact that she had brought me up “by hand”. She had both a hard and a heavy hand, and she used it freely on Joe as well as me. I believe it safe to say that Joe and I were brought up by hand .In other hand words , my sister brought us up most strictly .In looks she was not a beauty, being much too all and thin ,which I guess we did as she always complained about us .Joe ,on the other hand ,was a gentle and kind man .He had light hair and blue accepting eyes.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Joe and I were good friends because we were in the same position, that is ,of being scolded by Mrs.Joe would try to protect me from her anger whenever he could .So later that day when I ran breathless into the kitchen after my meeting the strange man , he give me a friendly warning .”She’s out trying to find to find you ,Pip! And she has the beating stick with her!” I knew this stick quite well. It had been used so often on me that it was quite smooth by now.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>Just then my sister rushed in.</span></p>

玉兰

<p><span lang="EN-US">6 Jun 2007 </span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">"And where have you been, you monkey?" she shouted. I hid behind Joe so that she couldn't hit me with the stick.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>“Only to the churchyard ,”I whispered ,I almost started to cry. </span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>“Churchyard ! If hadn’t decided to bring you up , the churchyard’s where you’d be right now ---- dead with our parents! One day you’ll send me to the churchyard !”</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>For the rest of the evening I couldn’t stop thinking about the stranger I had met on the wetlands. When the wind blew outside , I imagined I could hear his voice and the voice of the young man who ate boy’s hearts.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>Just before going to bed ,we heard the sound of the big gun out on the wetlands .”was that a gun, Joe?” I asked.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>“Ah ,yes!” said Joe .”It means another prisoner has escaped . I heard that one prisoner managed to escape last night.”</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>“Is it the police that fires the gun?” I asked. I looked at Joe and he shook his head as if to warn me .</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>My sister replied by angrily cutting me short. “Too many questions,” she frowned . “ If you must know it’s those men in the prison-ship who fire the gun.”</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>I really wanted to know more so I managed to ask in a quiet way ,” I wonder who is in prison-ship, and why?”</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>This questioning of mine was too much for Mrs. Joe .”Listen ,you! I didn’t bring up by hand to bother people all the time! The river has ships on it that are used as prisons, These places are for thieves and murders , and they stay on those ships for years sometimes. And when they were little they would ask too many questions! Now ,go to bed!”</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span></span></p>

玉兰

<p><span lang="EN-US">7 Jun 2007</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp; I wasn't able to sleep all night. I was afraid of the young man who would take me heart ,I was afraid of the stranger with the iron chain, and I was afraid that my sister would later discover that some food had been stolen. As soon as the sky became a little bright outside my window, I got out of bed and quietly went down to the kitchen. I stole some bread and cheese, and big meat pie. I was hoping that nobody would notice the food that was missing, as there was a lot of food ready for Christmas. I wasn’t brave enough to take the whole bottle of wine for that would surely be noticed . So I poured some wine into a smaller bottle and put it in my bag. Then I filled up the big wine bottle with what I thought was water from a big brown bottle .Then I went to joe’s box of tools to find the a tool the stranger wanted .When I ran outside, it was still quite dark.</span></p>

yern

Thank you so much!!

玉兰

<p><span lang="EN-US">12 Jun 2007 </span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp;The mist was so thick that I wasn't able to see anything. It wad difficult finding my way to the wooden building and I almost got lost. When I was near the building I saw a man sitting on the ground, half asleep. I went up to him and touched his shoulder. He jumped up in surprise and then I realized it was the wrong man! It was another man dressed in grey , and he also had iron chain on his leg . He quickly took off into the mist.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">“oh no!” I thought, “It’s the young man who eats boy’s hearts!” A feeling of pain came into my heart.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>When I reached the building ,I saw the stranger I had met before. He looked so cold and hungry that I even felt sorry for him. Shaking violently , he swallowed the wine and ate the food as quickly as he could. He looked like a hunted animal as he kept looking around all the time for danger.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>“Are you sure you didn’t tell anyone? Or bring anyone?”</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>“No, sir ! I’m glad you like the food ,sir.”</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>“Thank you ,my boy .You’ve been kind to a poor man.”</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>“But it looks like you haven’t left any for him.”</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>“Him? Who do you mean?” My friend stopped in the middle of eating.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>“the young man who travels with you.”</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>“Oh him!” he replied ,smiling ,”he doesn’t want any food .”</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>“I thought he looked pretty hungry when I saw him,” I answered.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">He opened his eyes wide in great surprise. “ looked ? When ?” he asked.</span></p>

玉兰

<div class="msgheader">QUOTE:</div><div class="msgborder"><b>以下是引用<i>yern</i>在2007-6-9 12:24:00的发言：</b><br/>Thank you so much!!</div><p>what did you thank for?</p>

yelunp

<div class="msgheader">QUOTE:</div><div class="msgborder"><b>以下是引用<i>玉兰</i>在2007-6-12 15:05:00的发言：</b><br/><p>what did you thank for?</p></div><p>Because you have so many baozi,,,,,,every body want to eat,,,,,,</p>

玉兰

<p><span lang="EN-US">14 Jun 2007 <p></p></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp;"Just now ,over there in the churchyard .I thought it was you because he was dressed like you, and I went over and woke him up and--" I was anxious to express this as politely as I could “---it looked like he had the same reason for wanting to borrow this tool I brought.”</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">“then I did hear the gun being fired last night! You know , boy , when you’re alone at night ,you imagine all kinds of things ---voice calling, guns firing ,soldiers marching !But tell me where this man went. When I find him I’ll smash his face and be finished with him! Let me have the tool first.”</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">I became afraid of him again now that he was angry.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>“ I’m sorry,” I apologized, “I have to go home now.” He paid no further attention to me and was bending over his chained leg, cutting away at the iron like a crazy man. I ran as fast as I can towards home. When I stopped halfway home in the mist ,I could still hear the sound of him trying to cut his chain.<p></p></span></p><p></p>

玉兰

<p><span lang="EN-US">20 Jun 2007</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>I have been in home nearly ten days, I’m ill and have had a fever three days, the illness is not serious I think that I am tired ,the reason is that I overwork recently , so my ability to resist disease goes down.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>I’m sitting down in the office now with splitting headache and thirst, After I took two pill that allay a fever, now I’m sweating too much .I have not written my homework in the past few days, so it is necessary to write a few words today,,,</span></p><p></p>