The breakfast next morning was like the tea over night, except that Mrs Pipchin took her roll instead of toast, and seemed a little more irate when it was over. Master Bitherstone read aloud to the rest a pedigree from Genesis judiciously selected by Mrs Pipchin), getting over the names with the ease and clearness of a person tumbling up the treadmill. That done, Miss Pankey was borne away to be shampoo'd; and Master Bitherstone to have something else done to him with salt water, from which he always returned very blue and dejected. Paul and Florence went out in the meantime on the beach with Wickam - who was constantly in tears - and at about noon Mrs Pipchin presided over some Early Readings. It being a part of Mrs Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster, the moral of these lessons was usually of a violent and stunning character: the hero - a naughty boy - seldom, in the mildest catastrophe, being finished off anything less than a lion, or a bear.

第二天早上的早餐和昨天夜间的茶点一样，所不同的是，皮普钦太太吃的是面包卷，而不是烤面包片，而且吃完之后脾气更大一些。比瑟斯通少爷向其余的人高声朗诵《创世纪》中的一个宗谱（这是皮普钦太太很有卓见地挑选 出来的），像踩踏车的人那样从容不迫、明白无误地读过了那些姓名。在这之后，潘基小姐被领走去洗澡和按摩；比瑟斯通少爷则还要用盐水来把他折腾一番；他回来的时候总是无精打采，垂头丧气。在这期间，保罗和弗洛伦斯跟威肯姆（她总是经常不断地流泪）一起出去到海边。大约在中午的时候，由皮普钦太太主持念一些孩子的读物。皮普钦太太管教孩子的方法的一个方面，就是不鼓励孩子像一朵花蕾那样发展与扩张他的智力，而是像一只牡蛎那样强迫把它打开，因此这些功课所寓的教训通常是残暴无情和使人目瞪口呆的性质：主人公——一个顽皮的孩子——在最温和的结局中，通常总不外乎被一头狮子或一头熊送了终，很少不是这样的。

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