英语杂谈：55 The Life I desired

（单词翻译）

That must be the story of innumerable couples, and the pattern of lifeof life it offers has a homely¹ grace. It reminds you of a placid² rivulet³, meandering⁴ smoohtly through green pastures and shaded by pleasant trees, till at last it falls into the vasty sea; but the sea is so calm, so silent, so infifferent, that you are troubled suddently by a vague uneasiness. Perhaps it is only by a kink in my nature, strong in me even in those days, that i felt in such an existence, the share of the great majority, something amiss. I recognized its social value. I saw its ordered happiness, but a fever in my blood asked for a wilder course. There seemed to me something alarming in such easy delights. In my heart was desire to live more dangerously. I was not unprepared for jagged rocks and treacherous⁵, shoals it I could only have change-change and the exicitement of unforeseen.