[00:00.00] Some people seem easy to understand:their character appears obvious on first meeting.
[00:08.91]Appearances,homwever,can be deceptive.
[00:14.29]A FRIEND IN NEED by Somerset Mauqham'
[00:19.91]For thirty years now I have been studying my fellownmen.I do not know very much about them.
[00:28.73]I shrug my shoulders when people tell me that their first impressions of a person are always right
[00:36.62]I think they must have small insight or great vanity.
[00:42.34]For my own part I find that the longer I know people the more they puzzle me.
[00:49.03]These reflections have occurred to me because I read in this morning's paper that Edward Hyde Burton had died at Kobe
[00:58.75]He was a merchant and he had been in business in Japan for many years.I knew him very little
[01:06.82]but he interested me because once he gave me a great surprise.Unless I had heard the story from his own lips
[01:16.77]I should never have velieved that he was capable of such an action.It was more starling
[01:24.77]because both in appearance and manner he suggested a very definite type.Here if ever was a man all of a piece
[01:34.54]He was a tiny little fellow,not much more than five feet four in height ,and very slender
[01:42.32]with white hair,a red face much wrinkled ,and blue eyes.I suppose he was about sixty when I knew him
[01:51.75]He was always neatly and quietly dressed in accordance with his age and station.
[01:58.86]Though his offices were in Kobe,Burton often came down to Yokohama.
[02:05.05]I happened on one occasion to be spending a few days there, waiting for a ship,
[02:11.55]and I was introduced to him at the British Club,We played bridge together.He played a good game and a generous one
[02:20.70]He did not talk very much,either then or later when we were having drinks,but what he said was sensible
[02:29.52]He had a quiet.dry humor.He seemed to be popular at the club and afterwards,when he had gone
[02:38.41]they described him as one of the best.It happened that we were both staying at the Grand Hotel
[02:46.77]and next day he asked me to dine with him.I met his wife,fat,elderly,and smiling,and his two daughters
[02:57.35]It was evidently a united and affectionate family.I think the chief thing that struck me about Burton was his kindliness
[03:08.45]There was something very pleasing in his mild blue eyes.His voice was gentle;you could not imagine
[03:17.41]he could possibly raise it in anger;his smile was benign.Here was a man who attracted you
[03:26.81]because you felt in him a real love for his fellows.At the same time he liked his game of cards and his cocktail
[03:37.68]he could tell with point a good and spicy story ,and in his youth he had been something of an athlete.
[03:46.35]He was a rich man and he had made every penny himself.I suppose one thing
[03:54.58]that made you like him was that he was so small and frail;he aroused your instincts of protection
[04:02.52]You felt that he could not bear to hurt a fly.
[04:06.99]One afternoon I was sitting in the lounge of the GrandHotel whenBurton came in and seated himself in the chair next to mine
[04:16.00]'What do you say to a little drink?'
[04:19.74]He clapped his hands for a boy and ordered two gin fizzes.As the boy brought them a man
[04:28.56]passed along the street outside and seeing me waved his hand.
[04:34.39]'Do you know Turner?'said Burton as I nodded a greeting.
[04:39.01]'I've met him at the club.I'm told he's a remittance man.'
[04:44.60]'Yes,I believe he is.We have a good many here.'
[04:49.70]'He plays bridge well.'
[04:53.02]'They generally do.There was a fellow here last year,
[04:58.00]oddly enough a namesake of mine,who was the best bridge player I ever met
[05:04.51]I suppose you never came across him in London.Lenny Burton he called himself.I believe he'd belonged to very good clubs
[05:14.38]'No,I don't believe I remember the name.'
[05:18.96]'He was quite a remarkable player.He seemed to have an instinct about the cards.It was uncanny.
[05:27.05]I used to play with him a lot.He was in Kobe for some time.'
[05:32.90]Burton sipped his gin fizz.
[05:36.54]'It's rather a funny story,'he said.He was't bad chap.I liked him.He eas always well-dressed and smart-looking
[05:47.14]He was handsome in away with curly hair and pink-and-white cheeks.Women thought a lot of him.
[05:55.81]There was no harm in him, you know,he was only wild.Of course he drank too much.Those sort of fellows
[06:04.96]always do.A bit of money used to come on for him once a quarter and he made a bit more by card-playing.
[06:14.73]He won a good deal of mine,I know that.'
[06:18.98]Borton gave a kindly chuckle.I knew from my own experiece that he could lose money at bridge with a gook grace
[06:28.15]He stroked his shaven chin with his thin hand;the veins stood out on it and it was almost transparent.
[06:36.90]'I suppose that is why he came to me when he went broke,that and the fact that he was a namesake of mine.
[06:44.74]He came to see me in my office one day and asked me for a job.I was rather surprised.'
[06:52.55]He told me that there was no more money coming from home and he wanted to work.I asked him how old he was
[07:01.38]"Thirty-five,"he said.
[07:04.52]"And what have you been doing hitherto?"I asked him.
[07:08.64]"Well,nothing very much,"he said.
[07:13.27]I couldn't help laughing.
[07:16.53]I'm afraid I can't do anything for you just yet,"I said. "Come back and see me in another thirty-five years
[07:24.53]and I'll see what I can do."
[07:28.03]'He didn't move.He went rater pale.He hesitated for a moment and then
[07:35.42]he told me that he had had bad luck at cards for some time.He hadn't been willing to stick to bridge,
[07:43.88]he'd been playing poker.and he'd got trimmed.He hadn"d a penny.He'd pawned everything he had.
[07:52.92]He couldn't pay his hotel bill and they wouldn't give him any more credit.He was domwn and out
[08:01.07]If he couldn't get somethin to do he'd have to commit suicide.
[08:06.32]'I looked at him for a bit.I could see now that he was all to pieces.He'd been drinking more than ususl
[08:15.46]and he looked fifty.The girls wouldn't have thought so much of him if they'd seen him then.
[08:23.14]"Well isn't there anything you can do except play cards?"I asked him.
[08:29.02]"I can swim,"he said.
[08:32.42]"Swim!"
[08:34.64]'I could hardly believe my ears;it seemed such an insane answer to give.
[08:40.54]"I swam for my university."
[08:44.46]'I got some glimmering of what he was driving at.
[08:49.03]I've known too many men who were little tin gods at their university to be impressed by it
[08:55.85]"I was a pretty good swimmer myself when I was a young man,"I said.
[09:01.15]'Suddenly I had an idea.'
[09:04.76]Pausing in his story,Burton turned to me.
[09:09.02]'Do you know Kobe?'he asked.
[09:12.62]No,'I said, 'I passed through it once,but I only spent a night there.'
[09:19.20]Then you don't know the Shioya Club.When I was a young man I swam from there round the beacon
[09:27.56]and landed at the creek of TarumiIt's over three miles and it's rather difficult on account of the currents round the beacon
[09:36.99]Well,I told my young namesade about it and I said to him that if he'd fo it I'd give him a job.
[09:45.82]'I could see he was rather taken aback.
[09:49.92]"you say you're a swimmer,"I said.
[09:53.58]"I'm not in very good condition,"he answered.
[09:58.18]'I didn't say anything.I shrugged my shoulders.He looked at me for a monment and then he nodded.
[10:06.88]"All right,"he said."When do you want me to do it?"
[10:12.18]'I looked at my watch.It was just after ten.
[10:17.01]The swim shouldn't take you much over an hour and a quarter.I'll dreve round to the creek at half past twelve and meet you
[10:26.02]I'll take you back to the club to dress and then we'll have lunch together
[10:31.98]"Done,"he said.
[10:35.12]We shook hands.I wished him good luck and he left me.I had a lot of work to do that morning
[10:43.45]and I only just managed to the creek at Tarumi at half past twelve.But I needn't have hurried;he never turned up
[10:54.00]'Did he funk it at the last moment?'I asked.
[10:58.42]'No,he didn't funk it.He started all right.But of course he'd ruined his constitution by drink and dissipation.
[11:07.35]The currents round the beacon were more than he could manage.We didn't get the body for about three days
[11:15.81]I didn't say anything for a moment or two.I was a trifle shocked.Then I asked Burton a question.
[11:24.12]'When you made him that offer of a job,did you know he'd be drowned?'
[11:30.44]He gave a little mild chuckle and he looked at me with those kind and candid blue eyes of his.
[11:36.66]He rubbed his chin with his hand.
[11:40.34]"Well,I hadn't got a vacancy in my office at the moment.'
[11:45.88]cruelty deceptive fellowman for sb's(own)part/the part of
[11:52.73]残忍 靠不住的 同胞 至于…
[11:59.57]merchant definite (all) of a piece wrinkle
[12:04.04]商人 明确的 浑然一体的 使起皱纹
[12:08.50]accordance elderly evidently affectionate
[12:13.14]一致 较老的 明显地 充满爱的
[12:17.78]mild cocktail spicy something of
[12:23.26]温和的 鸡尾酒 有刺激的 有点儿
[12:28.75]instinct lounge clap fizz
[12:33.32]本能 休息室 拍手 起泡发嘶声的饮料
[12:37.89]remittance oddly namesake uncanny
[12:42.40]汇款 奇特地 同姓 不可思议的
[12:46.90]sip chap in a way curly
[12:51.30]抿 家伙 在某种程度上 卷曲的
[12:55.71]with(a)bad/good grace stroke shave vein
[13:01.43]勉强地 抚摩 刨 静脉
[13:07.15]transparent broke hitherto stick to
[13:11.72]透明的 破了产的 迄今 坚持
[13:16.29]trim pawn down and out commit
[13:20.54]修剪 典当 穷困潦倒 犯
[13:24.78]be/go(all)to pieces insane glimmering drive at
[13:30.71]身体垮下来 荒唐的 模糊的感觉 要说
[13:36.64]beacon creek current aback
[13:40.91]灯塔 小湾 潮流 猝不及防地
[13:45.18]in bad/good condition turn up funk constitution
[13:51.24]身体状况不好 来到 避开 体格
[13:57.30]dissipation trifle candid rub
[14:01.72]放荡 小事 真诚坦率的 摩擦
[14:06.94]空缺
[00:08.91]Appearances,homwever,can be deceptive.
[00:14.29]A FRIEND IN NEED by Somerset Mauqham'
[00:19.91]For thirty years now I have been studying my fellownmen.I do not know very much about them.
[00:28.73]I shrug my shoulders when people tell me that their first impressions of a person are always right
[00:36.62]I think they must have small insight or great vanity.
[00:42.34]For my own part I find that the longer I know people the more they puzzle me.
[00:49.03]These reflections have occurred to me because I read in this morning's paper that Edward Hyde Burton had died at Kobe
[00:58.75]He was a merchant and he had been in business in Japan for many years.I knew him very little
[01:06.82]but he interested me because once he gave me a great surprise.Unless I had heard the story from his own lips
[01:16.77]I should never have velieved that he was capable of such an action.It was more starling
[01:24.77]because both in appearance and manner he suggested a very definite type.Here if ever was a man all of a piece
[01:34.54]He was a tiny little fellow,not much more than five feet four in height ,and very slender
[01:42.32]with white hair,a red face much wrinkled ,and blue eyes.I suppose he was about sixty when I knew him
[01:51.75]He was always neatly and quietly dressed in accordance with his age and station.
[01:58.86]Though his offices were in Kobe,Burton often came down to Yokohama.
[02:05.05]I happened on one occasion to be spending a few days there, waiting for a ship,
[02:11.55]and I was introduced to him at the British Club,We played bridge together.He played a good game and a generous one
[02:20.70]He did not talk very much,either then or later when we were having drinks,but what he said was sensible
[02:29.52]He had a quiet.dry humor.He seemed to be popular at the club and afterwards,when he had gone
[02:38.41]they described him as one of the best.It happened that we were both staying at the Grand Hotel
[02:46.77]and next day he asked me to dine with him.I met his wife,fat,elderly,and smiling,and his two daughters
[02:57.35]It was evidently a united and affectionate family.I think the chief thing that struck me about Burton was his kindliness
[03:08.45]There was something very pleasing in his mild blue eyes.His voice was gentle;you could not imagine
[03:17.41]he could possibly raise it in anger;his smile was benign.Here was a man who attracted you
[03:26.81]because you felt in him a real love for his fellows.At the same time he liked his game of cards and his cocktail
[03:37.68]he could tell with point a good and spicy story ,and in his youth he had been something of an athlete.
[03:46.35]He was a rich man and he had made every penny himself.I suppose one thing
[03:54.58]that made you like him was that he was so small and frail;he aroused your instincts of protection
[04:02.52]You felt that he could not bear to hurt a fly.
[04:06.99]One afternoon I was sitting in the lounge of the GrandHotel whenBurton came in and seated himself in the chair next to mine
[04:16.00]'What do you say to a little drink?'
[04:19.74]He clapped his hands for a boy and ordered two gin fizzes.As the boy brought them a man
[04:28.56]passed along the street outside and seeing me waved his hand.
[04:34.39]'Do you know Turner?'said Burton as I nodded a greeting.
[04:39.01]'I've met him at the club.I'm told he's a remittance man.'
[04:44.60]'Yes,I believe he is.We have a good many here.'
[04:49.70]'He plays bridge well.'
[04:53.02]'They generally do.There was a fellow here last year,
[04:58.00]oddly enough a namesake of mine,who was the best bridge player I ever met
[05:04.51]I suppose you never came across him in London.Lenny Burton he called himself.I believe he'd belonged to very good clubs
[05:14.38]'No,I don't believe I remember the name.'
[05:18.96]'He was quite a remarkable player.He seemed to have an instinct about the cards.It was uncanny.
[05:27.05]I used to play with him a lot.He was in Kobe for some time.'
[05:32.90]Burton sipped his gin fizz.
[05:36.54]'It's rather a funny story,'he said.He was't bad chap.I liked him.He eas always well-dressed and smart-looking
[05:47.14]He was handsome in away with curly hair and pink-and-white cheeks.Women thought a lot of him.
[05:55.81]There was no harm in him, you know,he was only wild.Of course he drank too much.Those sort of fellows
[06:04.96]always do.A bit of money used to come on for him once a quarter and he made a bit more by card-playing.
[06:14.73]He won a good deal of mine,I know that.'
[06:18.98]Borton gave a kindly chuckle.I knew from my own experiece that he could lose money at bridge with a gook grace
[06:28.15]He stroked his shaven chin with his thin hand;the veins stood out on it and it was almost transparent.
[06:36.90]'I suppose that is why he came to me when he went broke,that and the fact that he was a namesake of mine.
[06:44.74]He came to see me in my office one day and asked me for a job.I was rather surprised.'
[06:52.55]He told me that there was no more money coming from home and he wanted to work.I asked him how old he was
[07:01.38]"Thirty-five,"he said.
[07:04.52]"And what have you been doing hitherto?"I asked him.
[07:08.64]"Well,nothing very much,"he said.
[07:13.27]I couldn't help laughing.
[07:16.53]I'm afraid I can't do anything for you just yet,"I said. "Come back and see me in another thirty-five years
[07:24.53]and I'll see what I can do."
[07:28.03]'He didn't move.He went rater pale.He hesitated for a moment and then
[07:35.42]he told me that he had had bad luck at cards for some time.He hadn't been willing to stick to bridge,
[07:43.88]he'd been playing poker.and he'd got trimmed.He hadn"d a penny.He'd pawned everything he had.
[07:52.92]He couldn't pay his hotel bill and they wouldn't give him any more credit.He was domwn and out
[08:01.07]If he couldn't get somethin to do he'd have to commit suicide.
[08:06.32]'I looked at him for a bit.I could see now that he was all to pieces.He'd been drinking more than ususl
[08:15.46]and he looked fifty.The girls wouldn't have thought so much of him if they'd seen him then.
[08:23.14]"Well isn't there anything you can do except play cards?"I asked him.
[08:29.02]"I can swim,"he said.
[08:32.42]"Swim!"
[08:34.64]'I could hardly believe my ears;it seemed such an insane answer to give.
[08:40.54]"I swam for my university."
[08:44.46]'I got some glimmering of what he was driving at.
[08:49.03]I've known too many men who were little tin gods at their university to be impressed by it
[08:55.85]"I was a pretty good swimmer myself when I was a young man,"I said.
[09:01.15]'Suddenly I had an idea.'
[09:04.76]Pausing in his story,Burton turned to me.
[09:09.02]'Do you know Kobe?'he asked.
[09:12.62]No,'I said, 'I passed through it once,but I only spent a night there.'
[09:19.20]Then you don't know the Shioya Club.When I was a young man I swam from there round the beacon
[09:27.56]and landed at the creek of TarumiIt's over three miles and it's rather difficult on account of the currents round the beacon
[09:36.99]Well,I told my young namesade about it and I said to him that if he'd fo it I'd give him a job.
[09:45.82]'I could see he was rather taken aback.
[09:49.92]"you say you're a swimmer,"I said.
[09:53.58]"I'm not in very good condition,"he answered.
[09:58.18]'I didn't say anything.I shrugged my shoulders.He looked at me for a monment and then he nodded.
[10:06.88]"All right,"he said."When do you want me to do it?"
[10:12.18]'I looked at my watch.It was just after ten.
[10:17.01]The swim shouldn't take you much over an hour and a quarter.I'll dreve round to the creek at half past twelve and meet you
[10:26.02]I'll take you back to the club to dress and then we'll have lunch together
[10:31.98]"Done,"he said.
[10:35.12]We shook hands.I wished him good luck and he left me.I had a lot of work to do that morning
[10:43.45]and I only just managed to the creek at Tarumi at half past twelve.But I needn't have hurried;he never turned up
[10:54.00]'Did he funk it at the last moment?'I asked.
[10:58.42]'No,he didn't funk it.He started all right.But of course he'd ruined his constitution by drink and dissipation.
[11:07.35]The currents round the beacon were more than he could manage.We didn't get the body for about three days
[11:15.81]I didn't say anything for a moment or two.I was a trifle shocked.Then I asked Burton a question.
[11:24.12]'When you made him that offer of a job,did you know he'd be drowned?'
[11:30.44]He gave a little mild chuckle and he looked at me with those kind and candid blue eyes of his.
[11:36.66]He rubbed his chin with his hand.
[11:40.34]"Well,I hadn't got a vacancy in my office at the moment.'
[11:45.88]cruelty deceptive fellowman for sb's(own)part/the part of
[11:52.73]残忍 靠不住的 同胞 至于…
[11:59.57]merchant definite (all) of a piece wrinkle
[12:04.04]商人 明确的 浑然一体的 使起皱纹
[12:08.50]accordance elderly evidently affectionate
[12:13.14]一致 较老的 明显地 充满爱的
[12:17.78]mild cocktail spicy something of
[12:23.26]温和的 鸡尾酒 有刺激的 有点儿
[12:28.75]instinct lounge clap fizz
[12:33.32]本能 休息室 拍手 起泡发嘶声的饮料
[12:37.89]remittance oddly namesake uncanny
[12:42.40]汇款 奇特地 同姓 不可思议的
[12:46.90]sip chap in a way curly
[12:51.30]抿 家伙 在某种程度上 卷曲的
[12:55.71]with(a)bad/good grace stroke shave vein
[13:01.43]勉强地 抚摩 刨 静脉
[13:07.15]transparent broke hitherto stick to
[13:11.72]透明的 破了产的 迄今 坚持
[13:16.29]trim pawn down and out commit
[13:20.54]修剪 典当 穷困潦倒 犯
[13:24.78]be/go(all)to pieces insane glimmering drive at
[13:30.71]身体垮下来 荒唐的 模糊的感觉 要说
[13:36.64]beacon creek current aback
[13:40.91]灯塔 小湾 潮流 猝不及防地
[13:45.18]in bad/good condition turn up funk constitution
[13:51.24]身体状况不好 来到 避开 体格
[13:57.30]dissipation trifle candid rub
[14:01.72]放荡 小事 真诚坦率的 摩擦
[14:06.94]空缺
