精靈鼠小弟 第72期:寫信給埃姆斯小姐

"Have you any engraved stationery?" he asked the storekeeper.

“你這里有信紙嗎?”他問店主。

I'm behind on mycorrespondence.

我要寫一封信。

The storekeeper helped Stuart up onto the counter and found some letter paper for him--small paper, marked with the initial "L".

店主把他放到柜臺(tái)上，給他找了幾張信紙——那些紙很小，每張紙的上角還印著一個(gè)字母“L ”。

Stuart whipped out his fountain pen and sat down against a five-cent candy bar and began a letter to Harriet: "MY DEAR MISS AMES," he wrote.

斯圖亞特拉下鋼筆帽，倚坐在一塊價(jià)值五美分的硬糖上，開始給哈麗雅特寫信：“我親愛的埃姆斯小姐，”他寫。

I am a young person of modest proportions.

我是一個(gè)謙虛的年輕人。

By birth I am a New Yorker, but at the moment I am traveling on business of a confidentialnature.

我來自紐約，出來旅行是由于一個(gè)秘密的目的。

My travels have brought me to your village.

現(xiàn)在我來到了你們這個(gè)鎮(zhèn)。

Yesterday the keeper of your local store, who has an honest face and an open manner, gave me a most favorable report of your character and appearance.

昨天你們的一個(gè)店主，就是有著一張誠實(shí)的面孔和開朗性格的那個(gè)男人，對我說了不少關(guān)于你的好話。

At this point in the letter Stuart's pen ran dry from the long words,

寫到這里鋼筆沒水了，

and Stuart had to get the storekeeper to lower him head-first into a bottle of ink so that he could refill the pen.

斯圖亞特只好讓店主拎著他的尾巴把他順到淺淺的墨水瓶里，這樣才可以把他的鋼筆灌滿墨水。

Then he went back to letter writing.

然后他又坐回來接著寫……