| 1. | Those gilded cashbooks , drawers locked like gates of fortresses , heaps of bank - bills , come from i know not where , and the quantities of letters from england , holland , spain , india , china , and peru , have generally a strange influence on a father s mind , and make him forget that there is in the world an interest greater and more sacred than the good opinion of his correspondents
那些烫金的账簿，那些象堡垒的大门那样锁得严严的抽屉，那些我不知道从哪儿来的成堆的票据，以及那些从英国荷兰西班牙印度中国和秘鲁寄来的一叠叠的信件，通常会对一个父亲的头脑产生一种奇怪的影响，使他忘记世界上还有比社会地位和他来往银行的建议更应关切和更神圣的事情。 |
