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1、TheCuriousCaseofBenjaminButton***F.ScottFitzgeraldPublishedin1922epubBooks.comStrictlyNotforCommercialUse.ThisEPUBeBookisreleasedunderaCreativeCommons(BY-NC-ND/3.0)Licence.(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/)SourcetextandimagestakenfromthePublicDomain.ThiseBookisprovidedforfre
2、ebywww.epubbooks.comSupportepubBooksandmakeadonationbyvisiting:www.epubbooks.com/donations.1Aslongagoas1860itwastheproperthingtobebornathome.Atpresent,soIamtold,thehighgodsofmedicinehavedecreedthatthefirstcriesoftheyoungshallbeutteredupontheanaestheticairofahospital,preferablyafashionableone
3、.SoyoungMr.andMrs.RogerButtonwerefiftyyearsaheadofstylewhentheydecided,onedayinthesummerof1860,thattheirfirstbabyshouldbeborninahospital.WhetherthisanachronismhadanybearingupontheastonishinghistoryIamabouttosetdownwillneverbeknown.Ishalltellyouwhatoccurred,andletyoujudgeforyourself.TheRogerB
4、uttonsheldanenviableposition,bothsocialandfinancial,inante–bellumBaltimore.TheywererelatedtotheThisFamilyandtheThatFamily,which,aseverySouthernerknew,entitledthemtomembershipinthatenormouspeeragewhichlargelypopulatedtheConfederacy.Thiswastheirfirstexperiencewiththecharmingoldcustomofhavingba
5、bies—Mr.Buttonwasnaturallynervous.HehopeditwouldbeaboysothathecouldbesenttoYaleCollegeinConnecticut,atwhichinstitutionMr.Buttonhimselfhadbeenknownforfouryearsbythesomewhatobviousnicknameof"Cuff."OntheSeptembermorningconsecratedtotheenormouseventhearosenervouslyatsixo'clockdressedhimself,adju
6、stedanimpeccablestock,andhurriedforththroughthestreetsofBaltimoretothehospital,todeterminewhetherthedarknessofthenighthadborneinnewlifeuponitsbosom.WhenhewasapproximatelyahundredyardsfromtheMarylandPrivateHospitalforLadiesandGentlemenhesawDoctorKeene,thefamilyphysician,descendingthefrontstep
7、s,rubbinghishandstogetherwithawashingmovement—asalldoctorsarerequiredtodobytheunwrittenethicsoftheirprofession.Mr.RogerButton,thepresidentofRogerButton&Co.,WholesaleHardware,begantoruntowardDoctorKeenewithmuchlessdignitythanwasexpectedfromaSouthern
