-
Главная
-
- Книги
-
- Авторы
-
- Фрэнсис Скотт Фицджеральд
-
- По эту сторону рая
-
- Стр. 59/348
Для того чтобы воспользоваться озвучкой предложений, необходимо
Войти или зарегистрироваться
Озвучка предложений доступна при наличии PRO-доступа
Купить PRO-доступ
Amory
liked
Louisville
and
Memphis
best
:
these
knew
how
to
meet
strangers
,
furnished
extraordinary
punch
,
and
flaunted
an
astonishing
array
of
feminine
beauty
.
Chicago
he
approved
for
a
certain
verve
that
transcended
its
loud
accent
--
however
,
it
was
a
Yale
town
,
and
as
the
Yale
Glee
Club
was
expected
in
a
week
the
Triangle
received
only
divided
homage
.
In
Baltimore
,
Princeton
was
at
home
,
and
every
one
fell
in
love
.
There
was
a
proper
consumption
of
strong
waters
all
along
the
line
;
one
man
invariably
went
on
the
stage
highly
stimulated
,
claiming
that
his
particular
interpretation
of
the
part
required
it
.
There
were
three
private
cars
;
however
,
no
one
slept
except
in
the
third
car
,
which
was
called
the
"
animal
car
,
"
and
where
were
herded
the
spectacled
wind-jammers
of
the
orchestra
.
Everything
was
so
hurried
that
there
was
no
time
to
be
bored
,
but
when
they
arrived
in
Philadelphia
,
with
vacation
nearly
over
,
there
was
rest
in
getting
out
of
the
heavy
atmosphere
of
flowers
and
grease-paint
,
and
the
ponies
took
off
their
corsets
with
abdominal
pains
and
sighs
of
relief
.
When
the
disbanding
came
,
Amory
set
out
post
haste
for
Minneapolis
,
for
Sally
Weatherby
's
cousin
,
Isabelle
Borge
,
was
coming
to
spend
the
winter
in
Minneapolis
while
her
parents
went
abroad
.
He
remembered
Isabelle
only
as
a
little
girl
with
whom
he
had
played
sometimes
when
he
first
went
to
Minneapolis
.
She
had
gone
to
Baltimore
to
live
--
but
since
then
she
had
developed
a
past
.
Amory
was
in
full
stride
,
confident
,
nervous
,
and
jubilant
.
Scurrying
back
to
Minneapolis
to
see
a
girl
he
had
known
as
a
child
seemed
the
interesting
and
romantic
thing
to
do
,
so
without
compunction
he
wired
his
mother
not
to
expect
him
...
sat
in
the
train
,
and
thought
about
himself
for
thirty-six
hours
.
"
PETTING
"
On
the
Triangle
trip
Amory
had
come
into
constant
contact
with
that
great
current
American
phenomenon
,
the
"
petting
party
.
"
None
of
the
Victorian
mothers
--
and
most
of
the
mothers
were
Victorian
--
had
any
idea
how
casually
their
daughters
were
accustomed
to
be
kissed
.
"
Servant-girls
are
that
way
,
"
says
Mrs.
Huston-Carmelite
to
her
popular
daughter
.
"
They
are
kissed
first
and
proposed
to
afterward
.
"
But
the
Popular
Daughter
becomes
engaged
every
six
months
between
sixteen
and
twenty-two
,
when
she
arranges
a
match
with
young
Hambell
,
of
Cambell
&
Hambell
,
who
fatuously
considers
himself
her
first
love
,
and
between
engagements
the
P.
D.
(
she
is
selected
by
the
cut-in
system
at
dances
,
which
favors
the
survival
of
the
fittest
)
has
other
sentimental
last
kisses
in
the
moonlight
,
or
the
firelight
,
or
the
outer
darkness
.
Amory
saw
girls
doing
things
that
even
in
his
memory
would
have
been
impossible
:
eating
three-o'clock
,
after-dance
suppers
in
impossible
cafes
,
talking
of
every
side
of
life
with
an
air
half
of
earnestness
,
half
of
mockery
,
yet
with
a
furtive
excitement
that
Amory
considered
stood
for
a
real
moral
let-down
.
But
he
never
realized
how
wide-spread
it
was
until
he
saw
the
cities
between
New
York
and
Chicago
as
one
vast
juvenile
intrigue
.
Afternoon
at
the
Plaza
,
with
winter
twilight
hovering
outside
and
faint
drums
down-stairs
...
they
strut
and
fret
in
the
lobby
,
taking
another
cocktail
,
scrupulously
attired
and
waiting
.
Then
the
swinging
doors
revolve
and
three
bundles
of
fur
mince
in
.
The
theatre
comes
afterward
;
then
a
table
at
the
Midnight
Frolic
--
of
course
,
mother
will
be
along
there
,
but
she
will
serve
only
to
make
things
more
secretive
and
brilliant
as
she
sits
in
solitary
state
at
the
deserted
table
and
thinks
such
entertainments
as
this
are
not
half
so
bad
as
they
are
painted
,
only
rather
wearying
.
But
the
P.
D.
is
in
love
again
...
it
was
odd
,
was
n't
it
?
--
that
though
there
was
so
much
room
left
in
the
taxi
the
P.
D.
and
the
boy
from
Williams
were
somehow
crowded
out
and
had
to
go
in
a
separate
car
.
Odd
!
Did
n't
you
notice
how
flushed
the
P.
D.
was
when
she
arrived
just
seven
minutes
late
?
But
the
P.
D.
"
gets
away
with
it
.
"
