The Great Gatsby / Великий Гэтсби. Книга для чтения на английском языке

I waited but she didn’t say any more, and after a moment I returned rather weakly to the subject of her daughter.

“I suppose she talks, and – eats, and everything.”

“Oh, yes.” She looked at me absently. “Listen, Nick; let me tell you what I said when she was born. Would you like to hear?”

“Very much.”

“It’ll show you how I’ve gotten to feel about – things. Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling[26 - I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling – я очнулась после наркоза, чувствуя себя всеми брошенной], and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl.

She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and cried. �All right,’ I said, �I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. ’ ”

“You see I think everything’s terrible anyhow,” she went on in a convinced way. “Everybody thinks so. And I know. I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything.” She laughed with thrilling scorn. “Sophisticated – God, I’m sophisticated!”

I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said[27 - I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said. – В глубине ее слов я чувствовал неискренность.

]. It made me worried, as though the whole evening had been a trick of some sort to get some emotion from me.

Inside, the crimson room bloomed with light. Tom and Miss Baker sat at either end of the long couch and she read aloud to him from The Saturday Evening Post. When we came in she held us silent for a moment with a lifted hand[28 - she held us silent for a moment with a lifted hand – она предостерегающе подняла руку, чтобы мы молчали].

“To be continued,” she said, throwing the magazine on the table, “in our very next issue.” She stood up. “Ten o’clock,” she remarked, as though finding the time on the ceiling. “Time for this good girl to go to bed.”

“Jordan’s going to play in the tournament tomorrow,” explained Daisy.

“Oh – you’re Jordan Baker.