Neighbour Rosicky (Excerpt III) 《邻居罗西基》（节选三）

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He had driven in just when the boys had come back from the barn and were washing up for breakfast. The long table， covered with a bright oilcloth， was set out with dishes waiting for them， and the warm kitchen was full of the smell of coffee and hot biscuit and sausage. Five big handsome boys， running from twenty to twelve， all with what Burleigh called natural good manners—they hadn’t a bit of the painful self-consciousness he himself had to struggle with when he was a lad. One ran to put his horse away， another helped him off with his fur coat and hung it up， and Josephine， the youngest child and the only daughter， quickly set another place under her mother’s direction.

他赶到罗西基家时，那些小伙子们刚从牲口棚回来，正在洗手准备吃早饭。（剩余2944字）