Francis Fitzgerald - The Beautiful and Damned / Прекрасные и обреченные. Уровень 4

Gloria laughed.

“Isn’t he cute?” she required of Maury. “‘Whatever he decides to do!’ But what am I going to do if he works? Maury, will you entertain me if Anthony works?”

“Anyway, I’m not going to work yet,” said Anthony quickly.

“Why don’t you go out to – out to Greenwich or something?” suggested Richard Caramel.

“I’d like that,” said Gloria, brightening. “Do you think we could get a house there?”

Dick shrugged his shoulders and Maury laughed.

“Well, it seems to me there’re a lot of towns like Rye between New York and Greenwich where you could buy a little gray house,” said Dick.

Gloria leaped at the phrase triumphantly. For the first time since their return she knew what she wanted.

“Oh, yes!” she cried. “Oh, yes! that’s it: a little gray house! Where can we find one?”

As the unfortunate upshot of this conversation, they took Dick’s advice literally, and two days later went out to Rye. They were shown houses at a hundred a month; they were shown isolated houses. They looked at a few really nice houses, aloof, dignified, and cool – at three hundred a month. But they did not like them.

Anthony ran into the living room one afternoon.

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Anthony Patch – Энтони Пэтч

conscious stage – стадия пробуждения сознания

Cross Patch – Сердитый Пэтч

Tarrytown – Тэрритаун

Alicia Withers – Алисия Уитерс

Henrietta Lebrune – Генриетта Лебрюн

he was looked upon – его почитали

the Ritz – отель «Риц»

Dick Caramel – Дик Кэрэмэл

Maury Noble – Мори Нобл

shakes hands – здоровается за руку

High Jinks – «Шумные забавы»

telephone girl – телефонистка

Geraldine – Джеральдина

Abercrombie – Аберкромби

soon as – как только

had called on him – зашёл к нему

Muriel Kane – Мюриэл Кейн

What do you do with yourself? – Чем вы занимаетесь?

bacon and eggs – яичница с беконом

Bloeckman – Бликман

organ-grinder – шарманщик

laundry-bags – мешки для прачечной