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发信人: in (robbe), 信区: English
标 题: Jellu-Bean
发信站: 大红花的国度 (Tue Jun 13 09:55:49 2000), 转信
发信人: tanso (哑哑·卖身求荣), 信区: EnglishWorld
标 题: Jelly-Bean by Fitzgerald (3)
发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Fri Dec 31 17:33:11 1999)
When the war was over he came home. He was twenty-one, his trousers were too
short and too tight. His buttoned shoes were long and narrow. His tie was an
alarming conspiracy of purple and pink marvellously scrolled, and over it were
two blue eyes faded like a piece of very good old cloth long exposed to the
sun.
In the twilight of one April evening when a soft gray had drifted down along
the cotton fields and over the sultry town, he was a vague figure leaning
against a board fence, whistling and gazing at the moon's rim above the
lights of Jackson Street. His mind was working persistently on a problem that
had held his attention for an hour. The Jelly-bean had been invited to a party.
Back in the days when all the boys had detested all the girls, Clark Darrow
and Jim had sat side by side in school. But, while Jim's social aspirations
had died in the oily air of the garage, Clark had alternately fallen in and
out of love, gone to college, taken to drink, given it up, and, in short,
become one of the best beaux of the town. Nevertheless Clark and Jim had
retained a friendship that, though casual, was perfectly definite. That
afternoon Clark's ancient Ford had slowed up beside Jim, who was on the
sidewalk and, out of a clear sky, Clark had invited him to a party at the
country club. The impulse that made him do this was no stranger than the
impulse which made Jim accept. The latter was probably an unconscious ennui,
a half-frightened sense of adventure. And now Jim was soberly thinking it over.
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tanso最大的愿望,就是在明年夏天,和一个穿着
裙子的女孩吃饭……
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