I carried them, one after another, to a bookstall in the City Road - one part of which, near our house, was almost all bookstalls and bird shops then - and sold them for whatever they would bring.

• 又那么忙，事情又那不寻常，也顾不上对我另眼相看，何况不论对成年人还是少年人，我也从不说我的来历，对于我在这里的愁苦也不流露半分。