Our Mutual Friend(我们共同的朋友)
Charles Dickens
Part 1
The Cup and the Lip
Chapter 1On
the Look Out
In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there
is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable
appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between
Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of
stone, as an autumn evening was closing in.
The figures in this boat were those of a strong man with ragged
grizzled hair and a sun-browned face, and a dark girl of nineteen
or twenty, sufficiently like him to be recognizable as his
daughter. The girl rowed, pulling a pair of sculls very easily; the
man, with the rudder-lines slack in his hands, and his hands loose
in his waistband, kept an eager look out. He had no net, hook, or
line, and he could not be a fisherman; his boat had no cush…