Under Western
章节目录
共 68 题- Produced by An Anonymous Volunteer and David Widger
- UNDER WESTERN EYES
- PART FIRST
- Haldin continued after waiting a while--
- II
- He made a few steps and muttered through his set teeth--
- With something resembling anguish he said to himself--
- The Prince had exclaimed hastily--
- The Prince’s voice immediately exclaimed, thick with excitement--
- Then to the Prince, explaining courteously--
- The General stared from between his hands. Prince K--- murmured--
- The General murmured--
- The Prince exclaimed--
- Then lowering his glance and with great decision declared--
- Razumov answered with energy--
- He shuddered audibly. Haldin sighed once more, then--
- The voice of the motionless Haldin began--
- III
- Razumov trudging on interrupted--
- The clerk in uniform who conducted him said in the corridor--
- An unhurried voice said--
- PART SECOND
- The young lady sitting by the window turned her head and said--
- Nathalie Haldin murmured sadly--
- She laid her hand on the newspaper and took it away again. I said--
- I was very much shocked by this piece of ingenuity.
- I understood now the poor woman’s whispered allusion to Judas.
- II
- III
- I took her offered hand.
- I gave neither. I was irresistibly impelled to say--
- I looked at her calm face and her animated eyes.
- I bowed my head.
- She remained silent for a time, then obstinately she concluded--
- IV
- I inquired after the health of her mother.
- I smiled approvingly, and she added an unexpected remark--
- I broke the silence by beginning a question on that point--
- I was astonished. “Eggs, did you say?”
- I waited a little before I observed thoughtfully--
- She slowed her pace suddenly, and in a lowered voice added--
- I spoke with some asperity.
- I had not stayed with him to be offended.
- I did not look round even.
- I had to think for a moment before I saw what he was referring to.
- PART THIRD
- But Peter Ivanovitch dissented emphatically--
- II
- The hoarse voice on the sofa uttered angrily--
- The rasping voice asked from the sofa abruptly--
- She answered, without showing the slightest surprise at the question--
- She murmured without any animosity--
- She went on much slower, with indifference--
- III
- She interrupted, without emphasis--
- She waited, with her black eyes fixed on his face. Then--
- Razumov thought suddenly, “They have been living together.” Then aloud--
- She clicked her tongue at that symptom, very struck indeed. Then--
- IV
- PART FOUR
- II
- After a pause, his ingratiating eyes turned to the door, he added--
- III
- In the end Miss Haldin went on, appealingly--
- IV
- I rose, a little shakily.
- Then, looking hard at me with her brilliant black eyes--
- I was truly astonished.