Eleanor Estes

意識到錯誤的瑪蒂埃和佩琪給旺達寫了一封信，過了很久她們都沒有收到回信。終于，在圣誕節(jié)那天，老師給大家念了旺達的信，信里沒有抱怨沒有仇恨，她說要把那一百條裙子中的兩條送給佩琪和瑪蒂埃。旺達用自己的友善，包容并原諒了同學的過錯。

She went home and she 1）pinned her drawing over a torn place in the pink- flowered wall-paper in the bedroom. The 2）shabby room came alive from the 3）brilliancy of the colors. Maddie sat down on the edge of her bed and looked at the drawing. She had stood by and said nothing， but Wanda had been nice to her anyway.

Tears blurred her eyes and she gazed for a long time at the picture. Then

4）hastily she rubbed her eyes and studied it 5）intently. The colors in the dress were so vivid she had scarcely noticed the face and head of the drawing. But it looked like her， Maddie！ It really did. The same short blonde hair， blue eyes， and wide straight mouth. Why， it really looked like her own self！ Wanda had really drawn this for her. Wanda had drawn her！ In excitement she ran over to

1） pin [p?n] v.釘住??? 4） hastily [?he?st?li] adv.匆忙地

2） shabby [???bi] adj.破舊的??? 5） intently [?n'tentli] adv.專注地

3） brilliancy ['br?lj?ns?] n.光輝

Peggy's.

“Peg！” she said. “Let me see your picture.”

“What's the matter？” asked Peggy as they clattered up the stairs to her room， where Wanda's drawing was lying face down on the bed. Maddie carefully lifted it up.

“Look！ She drew you. That's you！” she exclaimed. And the head and face of this picture did look like the auburn-haired Peggy.

“What did I say！” said Peggy. “She must have really liked us anyway.”

“Yes， she must have，” agreed Maddie， and she blinked away the tears that came every time she thought of Wanda standing alone in that sunny spot in the school yard close to the wall， looking stolidly over at the group of laughing girls after she had walked off， after she had said， “Sure， a hundred of them—all lined up...”

回到家里，瑪蒂埃把旺達的那張畫釘在了臥室的粉花墻紙上，用它遮住了一處破損的地方，簡陋的小屋竟立刻因為那些亮麗的顏色而變得生動起來。瑪蒂埃坐在床沿上，默默地看著那張畫。曾經她只是站在一邊保持緘默，而旺達卻對她那么好。

淚水模糊了她的視線，她就那么長久地注視著那張畫。突然，她飛快地揉了揉眼睛，專注地研究了起來。畫上的那些顏色是那么活靈活現，以至于她幾乎忽略了那畫上人物的頭部和臉部——看上去多像她啊！像瑪蒂埃！絕對像！同樣的金色短發(fā)，藍眼睛，寬厚的嘴唇。天啊，真的就是她?。⊥_的這張畫就是畫給她的，旺達畫的就是她??！她興奮不已地跑到佩琪家。

“佩琪！”她喊道，“讓我看看你的畫！”

“怎么了？”佩琪邊問邊和她一起飛快地跑上樓去。旺達的畫就放在佩琪的床上，瑪蒂埃小心翼翼地把它舉了起來。

“看！她畫的是你，這是你！”她叫著，畫上畫的分明就是長著褐色頭發(fā)的佩琪。

“我說什么來著，”佩琪說，“她一定是真的喜歡我們！”

“對，肯定是的！”瑪蒂埃很贊同，她的眼中此時又噙滿了淚水，就像每一次她想起旺達那樣，想起她說完“……當然，一百條裙子，全都掛在那里……”后就走開，獨自站在校園靠墻的太陽地里，呆望著那群正笑作一團的女孩子……