抵达。
    它是我们Oldport盛夏的一天的变化。在上午下雨它在相当一个令人沮丧的方式，姑妈说，她曾应把它在她的日记。这是一个元素时，为简阿姨的日记了非常严重的事情。到中午时分，太阳出来了清晰和闷热，好像从来没有云，东北风力消失，海湾是一动不动，从今年夏天的榆树尖声第一蝗虫和知更鸟好像是煮好的蝴蝶他们永不满足的第二热窝，而没有什么似乎是一个除了冰淇淋和风扇人类午餐可取的。在下午的西南风来了海湾，其深蓝色的波纹，其美味清凉线，而水的颜色变得越来越激烈，直到我们似乎是在一个蓝宝石的心生活。
    坐在底下的家庭大旧麦斯威尔西方门口， - 他后门，而在水面上看起来。房子刚刚被重新占领了我的姑妈，其曾祖父已建成它，虽然它已走出家庭几代了。我知道那些大型殖民住房，其中克里斯托弗雷恩爵士的天才留给我们的民主的庄严日子的传统没有细化标本。
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    AN ARRIVAL.
    IT was one of the changing days of our Oldport midsummer. In the morning it had rained in rather a dismal way, and Aunt Jane had said she should put it in her diary. It was a very serious thing for the elements when they got into Aunt Jane's diary. By noon the sun came out as clear and sultry as if there had never been a cloud, the northeast wind died away, the bay was motionless, the first locust of the summer shrilled from the elms, and the robins seemed to be serving up butterflies hot for their insatiable second brood, while nothing seemed desirable for a human luncheon except ice-cream and fans. In the afternoon the southwest wind came up the bay, with its line of dark-blue ripple and its delicious coolness; while the hue of the water grew more and more intense, till we seemed to be living in the heart of a sapphire.
    The household sat beneath the large western doorway of the old Maxwell House,--he rear door, which looks on the water. The house had just been reoccupied by my Aunt Jane, whose great-grandfather had built it, though it had for several generations been out of the family. I know no finer specimen of those large colonial dwellings in which the genius of Sir Christopher Wren bequeathed traditions of stateliness to our democratic days.