听名著练听力之简爱篇 第95期

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Diana, Mary, and I had a wonderful Chiristmas week. We took walks on the moors², read, and sang together. We were even happier to know that we were independent³ women now, because of our new money. But [-----1-----]. He continued to study all the time, and visited the sick and poor as he had always done. "St. John, are you still going to leave us and become a missionary⁴?" Diana asked him one day, a little sadly⁵. "Nothing will change my plans," he told his sister. "i will leave England in a few months."

"And Rosamund Oliver?" asked Mary gently⁶.

"What about her? She is going to marry a Mr. Granby. Her father tells me he is a very nice young man." St. John's face was calm, and his mind was thinking⁷ about other things. With surprise, I realized he no longer loved Rosamund. Somehow⁸, [-----2-----].

Soon our lives at Moor¹ House returned to normal, once Christmas was over. We began to study the things that interested us again, such as languages and drawing⁹. However, st. John began to spend more time with Diana, Mary and I sometimes I thought he was watching me. One day when I was alone, he said to me, "Jane, would you learn the Hindustani language with me? I'll need it for my work in India, and you can help me to learn it by studying with me. You don't need German, anyway. You will be a good partner for me, because you study harder than my sisters do." [-----3-----], so I began to study Hindustani. Diana and Mary were surprised that I had stopped learning German