原文 (英語)

TWICE TOLD TALES EDWARD FANE'S ROSEBUD By Nathaniel Hawthorne There is hardly a more difficult exercise of fancy, than, while gazing at a figure of melancholy age, to re-create its youth, and, without entirely obliterating the identity of form and features, to restore those graces which time has snatched away. Some old people, especially women, so age-worn and woeful are they, seem never to have been young and gay. It is e