《简爱》✍ 第一章：6

I returned to my book — Bewick's history of British Birds：the letterpress thereof I cared little for, generally speaking; and yet there were certain introductory pages that, child as I was, I could not pass quite as a blank. They were those which treat of the haunts of sea-fowl; of "the solitary rocks and promontories" by them only inhabited; of the coast of Norway, studded with isles from its south-ern extremity, the Lindeness, or Naze, to the North Cape :

"where the Northern Ocean, in vast whirls,

Boils round the naked, melancholy isles

Offarthest Thule; and the Atlantic surge

Pours in among the stormy Hebrides. "

我重新又去看我的书——比尤伊克的《英国禽鸟史》。一般说来，我对正文部分不大感兴趣，不过尽管是个孩子，书中某些文字说明我还是不能当它空页似的一翻而过。其中有讲到海鸟栖息处的，讲到只有它们居住的那些“孤寂的岩石和海岬”，讲到从最南端的林内斯或者叫纳斯直到北角，岛屿星罗棋布的挪威海岸 :

那里北冰洋卷起巨大漩涡，

绕着北方极地荒凉的岛屿咆哮，

而大西洋的汹涌波涛，

注入风吹浪打的赫布里底群岛。