这个日子真是令人沮丧，可怜的乔若莎·艾伯特，作为孤儿院里年纪最大的孤儿当然更加倒霉。不过，这个特别的星期三，终于到头了。乔若莎离开了厨房，她刚在这里为来客们做了三明治，现在正跑回楼上完成她每天的例行工作。她负责第6室，那里有11个4岁到7岁的小家伙和11张排成一列的小床。乔若莎好不容易把他们叫过来，帮他们整理好皱巴巴的衣服，擦干净鼻涕，排成一行，然后带领他们去餐室，在那里他们可以尽情地享受半小时的好时光，喝牛奶，吃面包和梅子布丁。

Then she dropped down on the window seat and leaned throbbing temples against the cool glass. She had been on her feet since five that morning, doing everybody's bidding, scolded and hurried by a nervous matron. Mrs. Lippett, behind the scenes, did not always maintain that calm and pompous dignity with which she faced an audience of Trustees and lady visitors. Jerusha gazed out across a broad stretch of frozen lawn, beyond the tall iron paling that marked the confines of the asylum, down undulating ridges sprinkled with country estates, to the spires of the village rising from the midst of bare trees.

她疲惫地跌坐在窗台的椅子上，把涨得发疼的太阳穴贴着冰冷的玻璃。从早晨5点钟开始，她的手脚就不停地忙碌着，听从所有人的命令，还不时被神经兮兮的女监事骂得晕头转向。私下的李皮太太可不是像她面对理事们和来访的女士面前表现的那样冷静、庄重。乔若莎的眼神掠过孤儿院高高的铁栏杆外一片上了冻的开阔草地，看到远处起伏的山峰，山上散落的村舍，光秃秃的树丛中露出了房屋的尖顶。

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