这支小提琴是Rosemary她爸爸在世时,不知曾演奏出多少美妙多采乐曲的爱物,像舒伯特的小夜曲,托西里小夜曲,沙拉沙特的流浪者之歌等,现在仍不时在我耳际回响,但物在人亡,不禁令人稀嘘鼻酸。一具StanwayModel A Grand piano钢琴虽然颇经岁月依然光彩亮丽,只是形单影只的我,已经快二年没碰过琴键了。因为要用积装箱远运跨越印度洋,琴弦己放松,但试弹了一下,动作俱正常,要找调音师校调一下了。试琴的时候,听到琴声 (叮) 的一声,不知怎地不禁心中咯磴一下。
后来小齐就常来我家走动,跟露露也很谈得来,我们常在我书房中玩济慈和雪莱情诗的接龙游戏有一天,Rosemary去了台中,阿姨下班回去了,天色有些晚,就我和小齐二人在家中,我穿着得比较轻薄的居家服装,我一边弹奏着悲多芬(悲怆)奏鸣曲,二人都啜饮着 Jahnnie walker blue label scotch on the rock 冰威士忌。
一面读济慈的那首When I have Fear(当我害怕时)我说:
「When I have fears that I may cease to beBefore my pen has glean’d my teeming brain,Before high-piled books, in charactery,Hold like rich garners the full ripen’d grain;」他一脸严肃地接着说:
「When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face,Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;我说:
「And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,That I shall never look upon thee more,Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love;–then on the shore」他亳不迟疑道:
「Of the wide world I stand alone, and thinkTill love and fame to nothingness do sink. 」我们哈哈大笑,相互鼓掌。