Then，one late afternoon in mid­July，the hottest time of the year，I was walking by his house and he opened the door，mentioned me to come inside. The hall was cool，shaded，and it took my eyes a minute to adjust to the dim light.

　　“I owe you，”Mr Ballou，“but. . . ”

　　I thought I'd save him the trouble of thinking of a new excuse. “No problem. Don't worry about it. ”

　　“The bank made a mistake in my account，”he continued，ignoring my words. “It will be cleared up in a day or two. But in the meantime I thought perhaps you could choose one or two volumes for a down payment. ”

　　He gestured toward the walls and I saw that books were stacked(堆放)everywhere. It was like a library，except with no order to the arrangement.

　　“Take your time，”Mr. Ballou encouraged. “Read，borrow，keep. Find something you like. What do you read？”

　　“I don't know. ”And I didn't. I generally read what was in front of me，what I could get from the paperback stack at the drugstore，what I found at the library，magazines，the back of cereal boxes，comics. The idea of consciously seeking out a special title was new to me，but，I realized，not without appeal—so I started to look through the piles of books.

　　“You actually read all of these？”

　　“This isn't much，”Mr. Ballou said. “This is nothing just what I've kept，the ones worth looking at a second time. ”

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