【英文原著类】IN A GERMAN PENSION(在一家德国养老院).pdf

IN A GERMAN PENSION
IN A GERMAN
PENSION
by Katherine Mansfield
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IN A GERMAN PENSION
Contents.
1. Germans at Meat.
2. The Baron.
3. The Sister of the Baroness.
4. Frau Fischer.
5. Frau Brechenmacher attends a Wedding.
6. The Modern Soul.
7. At Lehmann's.
8. The Luft Bad.
9. A Birthday.
10. The Child-Who-Was-Tired.
11. The Advanced Lady.
12. The Swing of the Pendulum.
13. A Blaze.
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IN A GERMAN PENSION
1. GERMANS AT MEAT.
Bread soup was placed upon the table. "Ah," said the Herr Rat,
leaning upon the table as he peered into the tureen, "that is what I need.
My 'magen' has not been in order for several days. Bread soup, and just
the right consistency. I am a good cook myself"--he turned to me.
"How interesting," I said, attempting to infuse just the right amount of
enthusiasm into my voice.
"Oh yes--when one is not married it is necessary. As for me, I have
had all I wanted from women without marriage." He tucked his napkin
into his collar and blew upon his soup as he spoke. "Now at nine o'clock
I make myself an English breakfast, but not much. Four slices of bread,
two eggs, two slices of cold ham, one plate of soup, two cups of tea--that
is nothing to you."
He asserted the fact so vehemently that I had not the courage to refute
it.
All eyes were suddenly turned upon me. I felt I was bearing the
burden of the nation's preposterous breakfast--I who drank a cup of coffee
while buttoning my blouse in the morning. "Nothing at all," cried Herr
Hoffmann from Berlin. "Ach, when I was in England in the morning I
used to eat."
He turned up his eyes and his moustache, wiping the soup drippings
from his coat and waistcoat.
"Do they really eat so much?" asked Fraulein Stiegelauer. "Soup and
baker's bread and pig's flesh, and tea and coffee and stewed fruit, and
honey and eggs, and cold fish and kidneys, and hot fish and liver? All
the ladies eat, too, especially the ladies."
"Certainly. I myself have noticed it, when