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

“We persuaded Gausse to keep on a cook and a garçon and a chasseur[39 - garçon – (фр.) официант; chasseur – (фр.) слуга в гостинице] – it paid its way and this year it’s doing even better.”

“But you’re not in the hotel.”

“We built a house, up at Tarmes.”

“The theory is,” said Dick, arranging an umbrella to clip a square of sunlight off Rosemary’s shoulder, “that all the northern places, like Deauville[40 - Deauville – Довиль, фешенебельный курорт во Франции, на берегу Ла-Манша], were picked out by Russians and English who don’t mind the cold, while half of us Americans come from tropical climates – that’s why we’re beginning to come here.

”

The young man of Latin aspect had been turning the pages of The New York Herald[41 - The New York Herald – ежедневная нью-йоркская газета, выходила с 1835 по 1967 г.; в 1924 г.

слилась с газетой Tribune и изменила свое название на The New York Herald Tribune].

“Well, what nationality are these people?” he demanded, suddenly, and read with a slight French intonation, “ ’Registered at the Hotel Palace at Vevey are Mr. Pandely Vlasco, Mme. Bonneasse’ – I don’t exaggerate – ’Corinna Medonca, Mme. Pasche, Seraphim Tullio, Maria Amalia Roto Mais, Moises Teubel, Mme. Paragons, Apostle Alexandre, Yolanda Yosfuglu and Geneveva de Momus!’ She attracts me most – Geneveva de Momus.

Almost worth running up to Vevey to take a look at Geneveva de Momus.”

He stood up with sudden restlessness, stretching himself with one sharp movement. He was a few years younger than Diver or North. He was tall and his body was hard but overspare save for the bunched force gathered in his shoulders and upper arms. At first glance he seemed conventionally handsome – but there was a faint disgust always in his face which marred the full fierce lustre of his brown eyes.

Yet one remembered them afterward, when one had forgotten the inability of the mouth to endure boredom and the young forehead with its furrows of fretful and unprofitable pain.

“We found some fine ones in the news of Americans last week,” said Nicole. “Mrs. Evelyn Oyster and – what were the others?”

“There was Mr. S. Flesh,” said Diver, getting up also.