晨讀英語美文100篇六級(jí)My Perfect House

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:] [00:02.00]Passage 100 My Perfect House [00:06.92]My house is perfect. [00:09.65]By great good fortune I have found a housekeeper no less to my mind, [00:15.88]a low-voiced, light-footed woman of discreet age, strong and deft enough to render me all the service I require, [00:27.15]and not afraid of loneliness. [00:29.89]She rises very early. [00:31.86]By my breakfast-time there remains little to be done under the roof save dressing of meals. [00:39.84]Very rarely do I hear even a clink of crockery; never the closing of a door or window. [00:47.61]Oh, blessed silence! [00:50.02]My house is perfect. [00:53.19]Just large enough to allow the grace of order in domestic circumstance; [00:59.43]just that superfluity of inner space, to lack which is to be less than at one's ease. [01:06.98]The fabric is sound; the work in wood and plaster tells of a more leisurely and a more honest age than ours. [01:16.95]The stairs do not creak under my step; I am attacked by no unkindly draught; [01:24.04]I can open or close a window without muscle-ache. [01:28.32]As to such trifles as the color and device of wall-paper, I confess my indifference; [01:36.30]be the walls only plain, and I am satisfied. [01:40.78]The first thing in one's home is comfort; [01:44.72]let beauty of detail be added if one has the means, the patience, the eye. [01:52.28]To me, this little book-room is beautiful, and chiefly because it is home. [01:59.93]Through the greater part of life I was homeless. [02:04.42]Many places have I lived, some which my soul disliked, and some which pleased me well; [02:12.40]but never till now with that sense of security which makes a home. [02:18.53]At any moment I might have been driven forth by evil accident, by disturbing necessity. [02:26.08]For all that time did I say within myself: [02:30.57]Some day, perchance, I shall have a home; [02:35.27]yet the "perchance" had more and more of emphasis as life went on, [02:41.18]and at the moment when fate was secretly smiling on me, I had all but abandoned hope. [02:48.51]I have my home at last. [02:51.47]This house is mine on a lease of a score of years. [02:56.17]So long I certainly shall not live; [02:59.45]but, if I did, even so long should I have the money to pay my rent and buy my food. [03:08.21]I am no cosmopolite. [03:10.72]Were I to think that I should die away from England, the thought would be dreadful to me. [03:16.96]And in England, this is the place of my choice; this is my home.

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