To act with honesty and good faith was such a habit with Susan that she had never before thought of examining the Golden Rule:” All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.” But the longer she thought about it, the more seriously she doubted that she did not always obey it. So she asked her mother about its meaning.
“It implies. ”said her mother, “in the first place, a total destruction of all selfishness (自私): for a man who loves himself better than his neighbors, can never do to others as he would have others do to him. We are bound not only to do, but to feel, toward others as we would have others feel toward us. Remember. it is much easier to blame others for their selfishness than to overcome temptation (诱惑) when we face it. ”
Susan thought carefully and seriously about what her mother had said. She told herself that she would remember and follow the Golden Rule.
It was not long after this that an opportunity to test Susan’s principles occurred. One Saturday evening when she went, as usual, to farmer Thompson’s hotel, to bring back the money for her mother’s washing for the boarders, which amounted to five pounds. She found the farmer in the yard.
He was apparently in a terrible rage (勃然大怒) with some horse dealers with whom he had been bargaining (讨价还价). He held in his hand an open handbag, full of banknotes, and didn’t see the child as she made her request, except to blame her, as usual, for troubling him when he was busy. After that, he handed her a banknote. Glad to escape so easily, Susan hurried out of the gate. and then, pausing to put the money safely in her pocket, she discovered that he had given her two banknotes instead of one. She looked around: nobody was around to see her discovery.
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“It is mine, all mine.” she said happily to herself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Suddenly she turned around and rushed along the road with breathless speed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
When Sam and I were first married, we lived in a quiet neighborhood. Across the street, there was a big house with a six-foot high hedge (树篱) that blocked all but a small path to its yard. It was clear that our neighbors wanted privacy and weren’t interested in any “neighborly” behavior. Sam had discovered that a brother and sister lived in the house. The house belonged to the sister, and the brother helped around the house with things like getting the mail and setting the rubbish cans out on the day when the rubbish-collecting truck would come. The sister and brother were both very old. And we considered them unfriendly because they had called the police when Sam played music with his band in our yard one afternoon.
Not realizing it was we who were in the wrong, we thought our neighbors caused trouble to our already difficult life. At the time, Sam and I were quite short of money. We felt sad when Christmas was around the corner. It was our first Christmas as a married couple, and we didn’t have much money to celebrate it. There were no gifts or parties. We didn’t even have any special holiday treats to share at home.
“I wish we could have enough good stuff on Christmas Day. When I was a kid, my family would always have cheese, meat, cookies, candies, etc. It always felt like a feast (盛宴) to me as a kid,” I told Sam. I understood that Christmas wasn’t all about nice things, but it just didn’t feel like Christmas with only a few foods. Sam seemed to feel the same way. “Things will get a lot better next year,” he said, trying to be cheerful.
Three weeks before Christmas, we got to know our “unfriendly” neighbor, the brother, had a bad disease and passed away. One morning after that, we noticed our neighbor—the tiny sister Mary—trying with all her strength to pull her rubbish cans to the roadside alone. She looked so weak and lonely.
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Sam couldn’t stand it and rushed to her, saying, “May I help you?”
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When we answered the door, there was nobody but a big bag of goods.
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