她的确值得有跟戏院同样长久的寿命，但是她却活不了那么久。她也没有在戏院里死去，她是在她自己的床上安静地、庄严地死去的。她临终的一句话是非常有意义的。她问：“明天有什么戏上演?”

　　她死后大概留下了500块钱。这件事我们是从她所得到的利息推断出来的——20元。姑妈把这笔钱作为遗产留给一位没有家的、正派的老小姐。这笔钱是专为每年买一张二层楼上左边位子的票而用的，而且是星期六的一张票，因为最好的戏都是在这天上演的;同时她每星期六在戏院的时候必须默念一下躺在坟墓里的姑妈。

　　这就是姑妈的宗教。

　　①多瓦尔生(1768-1844)是丹麦名雕刻家。

　　②乌果里诺是意大利13世纪的政治家。他晚年被人出卖，饿死在狱中。这里所谈的是关于他坐监牢的一出戏。

　　③这是奥地利音乐家莫扎特(Mozart,1756-1791)的一个歌剧。

 　　《姑妈》英文版：

　　Our Aunt

　　YOU ought to have known our aunt; she was charming! That is to say, she was not charming at all as the word is usually understood; but she was good and kind, amusing in her way, and was just as any one ought to be whom people are to talk about and to laugh at. She might have been put into a play, and wholly and solely on account of the fact that she only lived for the theatre and for what was done there. She was an honorable matron; but Agent Fabs, whom she used to call “Flabs,” declared that our aunt was stage-struck.