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1. What are they, which are six in all? b. We cannot tell who they are, but they are probably people. 2. How does the passage describe Uncle Paul? b. He owns many kinds of books. 3. Uncle Paul .. d. All of the above. 4. Are Uncle Paul’s stories immediately practical? b. No, they are not but make us feel better. — 朗読テキスト One evening, at twilight, they were assembled in a group, all six of them. Uncle Paul was reading in a large book. He always reads to rest himself from his labors, finding that after work nothing refreshes so much as communion with a book that teaches us the best that others have done, said, and thought. He has in his room, well arranged on pine shelves, books of all kinds. There are large and small ones, with and without pictures, bound and unbound, and even gilt-edged ones. When he shuts himself up in his room it takes something very serious to divert him from his reading. And so they say that Uncle Paul knows any number of stories. He investigates, he observes for himself. When he walks in his garden he is seen now and then to stop before the hive, around which the bees are humming, or under the elder bush, from which the little flowers fall softly, like flakes of snow; sometimes he stoops to the ground for a better view of a little crawling insect, or a blade of grass just pushing into view. What does he see? What does he observe? Who knows? They say, however, that there comes to his beaming face a holy joy, as if he had just found himself face to face with some secret of the wonders of God. It makes us feel better when we hear stories that he tells at these moments; we feel better, and furthermore we learn a number of things that some day may be very useful to us. — © Copyright 2021 Adamorbis, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 音声と、朗読したテキストは、個人用に、それぞれダウンロード、コピペしていただいて結構です。 前述を除き、このサイトの全てのコンテンツは、Adamorbis, LLC の知的財産であり、サイトを訪れた個人による、個人的消費に供されます。 個人・公を問わず、いかなる手段によるものでも、転載・書き換え、引用等、による他者への内容の伝達は全て禁じます。