《**英语(2 学生用书 修订版)/新世纪高等院校英语专业本科生系列教材·》:
10 During the circus performance I kept my eye more on Hautboy than on the celebrated clown.Hautboy was the sight for me.Such genuine enjoyment as his struck me to the soul with a sense of the reality of the thing called happiness.The jokes of the clown he seemed to roll under his tongue as ripe magnum bonums.Now the foot, now the hand, was employed to attest his grateful applause.If any hit more than ordinary, he turned upon Standard and me to see if his rare pleasure was shared.In a man of forty I saw a boy of twelve, and this too without the slightest abatement of my respect.Because all was so honest and natural, every expression and attitude so graceful with genuine good—nature, that the marvelous juvenility of Hautboy assumed a sort of divine and immortal air, like that of some forever youthful god of Greece.
11 But much as I gazed upon Hautboy, and much as I admired his air, yet that desperate mood in which I had first rushed from the house had not so entirely departed as not to molest me with momentary returns.But from these relapses I would rouse myself, and swiftly glance round the broad amphitheater of eagerly interested and all—applauding human faces.Hark! Claps, thumps,deafening huzzas; the vast assembly seemed frantic with acclamation; and what, mused I, has caused all this? Why, the clown only comically grinned with one of his extra grins.
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