有声英语儿童童话故事 海的女儿 第6章

Oh, how eagerly did the youngestsister listen to all these descriptions! And afterwards, when she stood at theopen window looking up through the dark-blue water, she thought of the greatcity, with all its bustle and noise, and even fancied she could hear the soundof the church bells down in the depths of the sea.

In another year the second sisterreceived permission to rise to the surface of the water and to swim about whereshe pleased. She rose just as the sun was setting, and this, she said, was themost beautiful sight of all. The whole sky looked like gold, and violet androse-colored clouds, which she could not describe, drifted across it. And moreswiftly than the clouds, flew a large flock of wild swans toward the settingsun, and like a long white veil across the sea. She also swam towards the sun,but it sank into the waves, and the rosy tints faded from the clouds and fromthe sea.