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Chapter 36 A smile

Hot 1697 views. 2020-7-15 20:54 |Individual Classification:Ivory Academy

AT the beginning of term Sophie ran to school happily. This time she had brought a great pile of new manuscripts to share with her professor. However, in the first Intensive Reading Class, it was Professor Li, instead of Professor Hu who met them. Professor Li told the class that Professor Hu had heart attack and was seriously ill. She must stay at home for a week before she came back and give classes to them. And she could only teach them for two months. Then she must go to America to have an operation. Gravely, Professor Li asked them to cooperate well with Professor Hu in the rest of her classes. 

Every one looked up. Their smile vanished. Sophie walked out of the classroom in low spirit. 

Outside it was already dark. In the drizzling autumn rain Sophie felt chilly. Dressed in thin garments, Sophie walked in the gloomy lamplight. The past flashed across her mind, so clear, and so vague. As if all had happened yesterday, but dispersed like wisps of clouds.

The next day Sophie waited for the class to start sullenly. She thought her professor would look as low as her. The problem she was facing was very great. But she was wrong. The professor before her, though looked pale, was smiling even more heartily than ever before. No one would guess from this kind of smile that the professor was seriously ill and insisted on coming to the class. Sophie understood what kind of destiny was hide behind this smile, and what kind of agony it covered. She used to doubt that one could face misfortunes in life optimistically. She always believed that one need only to live according to one’s own will, and just act according to one’s nature, being sad, cross, listless or happy, as the mood suggested. But she finally understood that one’s greatest sadness was to enlarge her own sadness, and one’s greatest happiness was to divide her own happiness to others. Looking at her professor, Sophie wanted either to smile or weep.

But finally she gave a smile to her professor. She listened very carefully to the professor, not missing a single word. When the professor had spoken too much and stopped to take a breath, Sophie was very worried. She hoped this lesson would never end, so that she could be with her professor forever. She also hoped the class to be over very quickly, so that the professor could have a good rest. 

For the rest of the Intensive English Reading class, Sophie valued very much. It seemed as if she had grown up overnight. 

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