欧亨利短篇小说《TheLastLeaf》(《最后一片常青藤叶》(5)

She arranged her board and began a pen-and-ink drawing to illustrage a mahazine stofy .Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to literature.
医生离去之后，苏艾到工作室里哭了一声，把一张 日本纸餐巾擦得一团糟。然后，她拿起画板，吹着拉格泰姆音乐调子，昂首阔步地走进琼珊的房间。
琼西躺在被窝里，脸朝着窗口，一点儿动静也没有。苏以为她睡着了，赶紧停止吹口哨。
她架起画板，开始替杂志画一幅短篇小说的钢笔画插图。青年画家不得不以杂志小说的插图来铺平通向艺术的道路，而这些小说则是 青年作家为了铺平文学道路而创作的。
Johnsy"s eyes were open wide. She was looking out the window and counting - counting backward.
"Twelve," she said, and little later "eleven"; and then "ten," and "nine"; and then "eight" and "seven", almost together.
So looked solicitously out of the window. What was there to count? There was only a bare, dreary yard to be seen, and the blank side of the brick house twenty feet away. An old, old ivy vine, gnarled and decayed at the roots, climbed half way up the brick wall. The cold breath of autumn had stricken its leaves from the vine until its skeleton branches clung, almost bare, to the crumbling bricks.