Lawrence Sterne to Miss L.

Yes! I will steal from the world, and not a babbling tongue shall tell where I am. Echo shall not so much as whisper my hiding place. Suffer the imagination to permit it as a little sun-light cottage, on the side of a romantic hill. Dost thou think I will leave love and friendship behind me? No! They shall be my companions in solitude, for they will sit down and rise up with me in the amiable form of my L ... We will be as merry and as innocent as our first parents in Paradise, before the arch-fiend entered that indescribable scene

The kindest affections will have room to shoot and expand in our retirement, and produce such fruit as madness and envy and ambition have always killed in the bud. Let the human tempest and hurricane rage at a distance, the desolation is beyond the horizon of peace. My L... has seen a polyanthus blow in December ... me friendly wall has sheltered it from the biting wind. No planetary influence shall reach us but that which presides and cherishes the sweetest flowers. God preserve us! How delightful this prospect in idea! We will build and we will plant, in our own way ...simplicity shall not be tortured by art. We will learn of nature how to live ... she shall be our alchemist, to mingle all the good of life in one salubrious draught. The gloomy family of care and distrust shall be banished from our dwelling, guarded by the kind and tutelary deity. We will sing our choral songs of gratitude and rejoice to the end of our pilgrimage.

Adieu, my L ...

Return to one who languishes for your society.


 

劳伦斯·斯特恩致L小姐

可以。我行将悄然分开这世界，任何饶舌鬼也说不出我在哪里。回声不出我的藏身之处。受害想象力允许它作为一个小太阳光线平房，一边一个浪漫的山。您以为我会把爱情和友谊在我后面？没有！它们是我孤独中的伴侣，他们会坐下来，起的形式我…我们将一样快乐和天真，是我们的乐园，在大恶魔进入那无法形容的场景

最美好的爱情会有加深和发展的余地在我们退休，由此而产生的疯狂、嫉妒和非凡之想都会扼杀在萌芽之中。让人间的暴风骤雨在远方肆虐的荒凉，超越和平。我的爱。已经在十二月樱草的打击…我有堵墙挡住了凛冽的寒风。没有尘世的干扰而掌管爱的温馨。上帝保佑我们！这个想法多么令人愉快的前景！我们将自由自在地植物，以我们自己的方式……朴实再不会受到折磨的艺术。我们将学习如何生活的本质…她是我们的炼金术士，要把生活中一切美好的一个清爽的风。阴郁的家庭不再有忧虑和不信任的赶出我们的居所，被善良的守护神。我们将同声歌唱，感激和快乐结束我们的旅程。

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