My house is perfect. By great good fortune I have found a housekeeper no less to my mind, a lowvoiced, light-footed woman of dicreet age, stronge and deft enough to render me all the service I require, and not afraid of loneliness. She rises very early. By mybreakfast-time there remains littles to be done under the roof save dressing of meals. Very rarely do I hear even a clink of crockery; never the closing of a door or window. Oh, blessed silence!
My house is perfect. Just large enough to allow the grace of order in domestic circustance; just that superfluity of inner space, to lack which is to be less than at one's ease. The fabric is sound; the work in wood and plaster tells of a more leisurely and a more honest age than ours. The stairs do not creak under my step; I am attacked by no unkindly draught; I can open or close a window without muscle-ache.As to such trifles as the color and decive of wall-paper, I confess my indifference; be the walls only plain, and I am satisfied. The first thing in one's home is comfort; let beauty of detail be added if one has the means, the patience, the eye.
To me, this little book-room is beautiful, and chiefly beacause it is home. Through the greater part of life I was hmeless. Many places have I lived, some which my soul disliked, and some which please me well; but never till now with that sense of security which makes a home. At any moment I might have been driven forth by evil accident, by disturbing necessity. For all that time did I say within myself: Some day, perchance, I shall have a home; yet the "perchance" had more and more of emphasis as life went on, and at the moment when fate was secretly smiling on me, I had all but abandoned hope. I have my home at last. This house is mine on a lease of a score of years. So long should I have the money to pay my rent and buy my food.
I am no cosmopolite. Were I to think that I should die away from England, the thought would be dreadful to me. And in England, this is the place of my choice; this is my home.
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