Empress of Canada
June23rd，1928
Darling：
This is the 8th day on board and I haven't told you much about what it feels to be on board such a big ship as the Empress of Canada. The fact is we very much regret having taken to this boat instead of one of the Dollar－line boats. This is a Canada ship，a Britisher，not American. Consequently the atmosphere on board is pervaded with that British chill which is made doubly worse by the sea chill of the Northern Pacific. You mean to tell me this is summer time？Yes，except in the sight of here and the barely surviving white flannels and white canvas shoes one finds it extremely difficult to make out any trace of summer .Enter the drawing room sand you feel（not surprisedly）the good of the radiators heartily at work again；go to the decks and you feel the good of caps and over coats and heavy shawls and thick team ship rugs tightly tugged round your sides；look at the sea and you are confronted with indifferent masses of steely water hemmed in by hazy horizons and over cast with a misty firmament that promises neither sunlight nor gold-hued clouds. And you mean to tell me that this is summer，the month of June？
Wemps just proposed a star plan to us which，if success－fully carried out will combine art and money. “Go to join the Hollywood crowd and make a million gold dollars of fortune out of say three years' work.”－He says he can think of no better plan than that.
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親愛的：
這是在船上的第八天，我還沒來得及細述在加拿大女皇號這樣的巨輪上的種種感想。其實我們頗為後悔沒乘大萊公司的船。加拿大船通常是英式而非美式的，這艘就是這樣。因此船上無處不散發著一種英國式的陰冷氣，再加上北太平洋原有的冷空氣，便更加不好受了。你不是告訴過我這邊是夏日嗎？沒錯，可除了難得一見的白色法蘭絨上衣和白皮鞋之外，哪裏還有什麽夏日的跡象。走進客艙就會感到有溫和的暖氣襲來，可上了甲板就要緊緊裹在帽子、大衣、厚圍巾甚至毯子中才行。放眼海麵，隻見灰暗的海水延伸到霧蒙蒙的天際，上麵的蒼穹同樣是濃雲密布，不見一線的陽光或者彩雲。這就是你說的盛夏的六月？