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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亲爱的：
这是在船上的第八天，我还没来得及细述在加拿大女皇号这样的巨轮上的种种感想。其实我们颇为后悔没乘大莱公司的船。加拿大船通常是英式而非美式的，这艘就是这样。因此船上无处不散发着一种英国式的阴冷气，再加上北太平洋原有的冷空气，便更加不好受了。你不是告诉过我这边是夏日吗？没错，可除了难得一见的白色法兰绒上衣和白皮鞋之外，哪里还有什么夏日的迹象。走进客舱就会感到有温和的暖气袭来，可上了甲板就要紧紧裹在帽子、大衣、厚围巾甚至毯子中才行。放眼海面，只见灰暗的海水延伸到雾蒙蒙的天际，上面的苍穹同样是浓云密布，不见一线的阳光或者彩云。这就是你说的盛夏的六月？