An Old-Fashioned Girl - Chapter 12

"I'M perfectly ¹ aching for some fun," said Polly to herself as she opened her window one morning and the sunshine and frosty air set her blood dancing and her eyes sparkling with youth, health, and overflowing ² spirits. "I really must break out somewhere and have a good time. It's quite impossible to keep steady any longer. Now what will I do?" Polly sprinkled crumbs ³ to the doves, who came daily to be fed, and while she watched the gleaming necks and rosy ⁴ feet, she racked her brain to devise some unusually delightful ⁵ way of enjoying herself, for she really had bottled up her spirits so long, they were in a state of uncontrollable effervescence., ,"I'll go to the opera," she suddenly announced to the doves. "It's expensive, I know, but it's remarkably ⁷ good, and music is such a treat to me. Yes, I'll get two tickets as cheap as I can, send a note to Will, poor lad, he needs fun as much as I do, and we'll go and have a nice time in some corner, as Charles Lamb and his sister used to.", ,With that Polly slammed down the window, to the dismay of her gentle little pensioners ⁸, and began to fly about with great energy, singing and talking to herself as if it was impossible to keep quiet. She started early to her first lesson that she might have time to buy the tickets, hoping, as she put a five-dollar bill into her purse, that they would n't be very high, for she felt that she was not in a mood to resist temptation. But she was spared any struggle, for when she reached the place, the ticket office was blocked up by eager purchasers and the disappointed faces that turned away told Polly there was no hope for her., , ,Fortunately she did not have to do violence to her feelings very long, for the first thing Fanny said to her was: "Can you go?", ,"Where?", ,Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。,The stands were overflowing with farm and sideline products. 集市上农副产品非常丰富 。