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Chapter Six.
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The Unfinished Letter—Too Late!
Next morning young Milton—or, as he was called by his comrades, John Miles—rose with the depressing thought that it was to be his last day in England. As he was dressing1, it flashed across him that he had left his unfinished letter on the reading-room table, and, concluding that it would be swept away in the rush of people there—at all events that, not having been folded or addressed, it could not be posted—his depression was deepened.
The first thing that roused him to a better frame of mind was the smell of tea!
Most people are more or less familiar with teapots; with the few teaspoonfuls of the precious leaf which thrifty2 housekeepers3 put into these pots, and the fragrant4 liquid that results. But who among civilians5, (save the informed), can imagine a barrack-room teapot?
Open your ears, O ye thrifty ones! while we state a few facts, and there will be no need to tell you to open your eyes.
Into the teapot which supplied Miles with his morning cup there was put, for one making, eight pounds of tea!—not ounces, observe, but pounds,—twenty-nine pounds of sugar, and six gallons—an absolute cowful—of milk! The pot itself consisted of eight enormous coppers6, which were filled with boiling water to the brim.
“Yes, sir,” remarked the military cook, who concocted7 the beverage8, to a speechless visitor one day; “it is a pretty extensive brew9; but then, you see, we have a large family!”
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平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓 | |
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铜( copper的名词复数 ); 铜币 | |
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repentance
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(军队的)团( regiment的名词复数 ); 大量的人或物 | |
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