Neighbour Rosicky (Excerpt X)《邻居罗西基》（节选十）

Moreover， he had what he called a happy home life. Very near the tailor shop was a small furniture-factory， where an old Austrian， Loeffler， employed a few skilled men and made unusual furniture， most of it to order， for the rich German housewives uptown. The top floor of Loeffler’s five-storey factory was a loft， where he kept his choice lumber and stored the old pieces of furniture left on his hands. One of the young workmen he employed was a Czech， and he and Rosicky became fast friends. They persuaded Loeffler to let them have a sleeping-room in one corner of the loft. They bought good beds and bedding and had their pick of the furniture kept up there. The loft was low-pitched， but light and airy， full of windows， and good-smelling by reason of the fine lumber put up there to season. Old Loeffler used to go down to the docks and buy wood from South America and the East from the sea captains. The young men were as foolish about their house as a bridal pair. Zichec， the young cabinet-maker， devised every sort of convenience， and Rosicky kept their clothes in order. At night and on Sundays， when the quiver of machinery underneath was still， it was the quietest place in the world， and on summer nights all the sea winds blew in. Zichec often practised on his flute in the evening. They were both fond of music and went to the opera together. Rosicky thought he wanted to live like that for ever.

此外他还享有一种他所谓的“幸福家庭生活”。（剩余3676字）