The Life I Pursued

That must be the story of innumerable couples, and the pattern of life it offers has a homely grace. It reminds you of aplacid（平静的，温和的） rivulet（小溪，小河）,meandering（漫步）smoothly through green pastures and shaded by pleasant trees, till at last it falls into the vastly sea; but the sea is so calm, so silent, so indifferent, that you are troubled suddenly by avague（模糊的） uneasiness（不安，担忧）.

Perhaps it is only by akink（扭结，奇想）in my nature, strong in me even in those days, that I felt in such an existence, the share of the great majority, somethingamiss（有毛病的，有缺陷的）. I recognized its social value. I saw its ordered happiness, but a fever in my blood asked for a wilder course.

There seemed to me something alarming in such easy delights. In my heart was desire to live more dangerously. I was not unprepared forjagged（锯齿状的）rocks andtreacherous（奸诈的，叛逆的）,shoals（浅滩，沙洲）it I could only have change-change and the excitement of unforeseen.