Tender is the night / Ночь нежна. Книга для чтения на английском языке

They recognized me – no matter where we go everybody’s seen “Daddy’s Girl’”

Mrs. Speers waited for the glow of egotism to subside; then she said in a matter-of-fact way: “That reminds me, when are you going to see Earl Brady?”

“I thought we might go this afternoon – if you’re rested.”

“You go – I’m not going.”

“We’ll wait till to-morrow then.”

“I want you to go alone. It’s only a short way – it isn’t as if you didn’t speak French[24 - it isn’t as if you didn’t speak French – ты ведь говоришь по-французски].

“Mother – aren’t there some things I don’t have to do?”

“Oh, well then go later – but some day before we leave.”

“All right, Mother.”

After lunch they were both overwhelmed by the sudden flatness that comes over American travellers in quiet foreign places. No stimuli worked upon them, no voices called them from without, no fragments of their own thoughts came suddenly from the minds of others, and missing the clamor of Empire[25 - Empire – вероятно, здесь речь идет о США] they felt that life was not continuing here.

“Let’s only stay three days, Mother,” Rosemary said when they were back in their rooms. Outside a light wind blew the heat around, straining it through the trees and sending little hot gusts through the shutters.

“How about the man you fell in love with on the each?”

“I don’t love anybody but you, Mother, darling.

Rosemary stopped in the lobby and spoke to Gausse père[26 - père – (фр.) отец] about trains. The concierge, lounging in light-brown khaki by the desk, stared at her rigidly, then suddenly remembered the manners of his métier[27 - métier – (фр.) профессия]. She took the bus and rode with a pair of obsequious waiters to the station, embarrassed by their deferential silence, wanting to urge them: “Go on, talk, enjoy yourselves.

The first-class compartment was stifling; the vivid advertising cards of the railroad companies – The Pont du Gard at Aries, the Ampitheatre at Orange, winter sports at Chamonix[28 - Pont du Gard – (фр.) Пон-дю-Гар; речь идет о древнеримском акведуке (I в. до н. э.