-
Главная
-
- Книги
-
- Авторы
-
- Теодор Драйзер
-
- Американская трагедия
-
- Стр. 52/598
Для того чтобы воспользоваться озвучкой предложений, необходимо
Войти или зарегистрироваться
Озвучка предложений доступна при наличии PRO-доступа
Купить PRO-доступ
In
the
meantime
,
in
so
far
as
his
home
ties
went
,
the
irritations
and
the
depressions
which
were
almost
inextricably
involved
with
membership
in
the
Griffiths
family
were
not
different
from
what
they
had
ever
been
.
For
,
following
the
disappearance
of
Esta
,
there
had
settled
a
period
of
dejection
which
still
endured
.
Only
,
in
so
far
as
Clyde
was
concerned
,
it
was
complicated
with
a
mystery
which
was
tantalizing
and
something
more
--
irritating
;
for
when
it
came
to
anything
which
related
to
sex
in
the
Griffiths
family
,
no
parents
could
possibly
have
been
more
squeamish
.
And
especially
did
this
apply
to
the
mystery
which
had
now
surrounded
Esta
for
some
time
.
She
had
gone
.
She
had
not
returned
.
And
so
far
as
Clyde
and
the
others
knew
,
no
word
of
any
kind
had
been
received
from
her
.
However
,
Clyde
had
noted
that
after
the
first
few
weeks
of
her
absence
,
during
which
time
both
his
mother
and
father
had
been
most
intensely
wrought
up
and
troubled
,
worrying
greatly
as
to
her
whereabouts
and
why
she
did
not
write
,
suddenly
they
had
ceased
their
worries
,
and
had
become
very
much
more
resigned
--
at
least
not
so
tortured
by
a
situation
that
previously
had
seemed
to
offer
no
hope
whatsoever
.
He
could
not
explain
it
.
It
was
quite
noticeable
,
and
yet
nothing
was
said
.
And
then
one
day
a
little
later
,
Clyde
had
occasion
to
note
that
his
mother
was
in
communication
with
some
one
by
mail
--
something
rare
for
her
.
For
so
few
were
her
social
or
business
connections
that
she
rarely
received
or
wrote
a
letter
.
One
day
,
however
,
very
shortly
after
he
had
connected
himself
with
the
Green
--
Davidson
,
he
had
come
in
rather
earlier
than
usual
in
the
afternoon
and
found
his
mother
bending
over
a
letter
which
evidently
had
just
arrived
and
which
appeared
to
interest
her
greatly
.
Also
it
seemed
to
be
connected
with
something
which
required
concealment
.
For
,
on
seeing
him
,
she
stopped
reading
at
once
,
and
,
flustered
and
apparently
nervous
,
arose
and
put
the
letter
away
without
commenting
in
any
way
upon
what
she
had
been
doing
.
But
Clyde
for
some
reason
,
intuition
perhaps
,
had
the
thought
that
it
might
be
from
Esta
.
He
was
not
sure
.
And
he
was
too
far
away
to
detect
the
character
of
the
handwriting
.
But
whatever
it
was
,
his
mother
said
nothing
afterwards
concerning
it
.
She
looked
as
though
she
did
not
want
him
to
inquire
,
and
so
reserved
were
their
relations
that
he
would
not
have
thought
of
inquiring
.
He
merely
wondered
,
and
then
dismissed
it
partially
,
but
not
entirely
,
from
his
mind
.
A
month
or
five
weeks
after
this
,
and
just
about
the
time
that
he
was
becoming
comparatively
well-schooled
in
his
work
at
the
Green
-
Davidson
,
and
was
beginning
to
interest
himself
in
Hortense
Briggs
,
his
mother
came
to
him
one
afternoon
with
a
very
peculiar
proposition
for
her
.
Without
explaining
what
it
was
for
,
or
indicating
directly
that
now
she
felt
that
he
might
be
in
a
better
position
to
help
her
,
she
called
him
into
the
mission
hall
when
he
came
in
from
work
and
,
looking
at
him
rather
fixedly
and
nervously
for
her
,
said
:
"
You
would
n't
know
,
Clyde
,
would
you
,
how
I
could
raise
a
hundred
dollars
right
away
?
"
Clyde
was
so
astonished
that
he
could
scarcely
believe
his
ears
,
for
only
a
few
weeks
before
the
mere
mention
of
any
sum
above
four
or
five
dollars
in
connection
with
him
would
have
been
preposterous
.
His
mother
knew
that
.
Yet
here
she
was
asking
him
and
apparently
assuming
that
he
might
be
able
to
assist
her
in
this
way
.
And
rightly
,
for
both
his
clothes
and
his
general
air
had
indicated
a
period
of
better
days
for
him
.
At
the
same
time
his
first
thought
was
,
of
course
,
that
she
had
observed
his
clothes
and
goings-on
and
was
convinced
that
he
was
deceiving
her
about
the
amount
he
earned
.
And
in
part
this
was
true
,
only
so
changed
was
Clyde
's
manner
of
late
,
that
his
mother
had
been
compelled
to
take
a
very
different
attitude
toward
him
and
was
beginning
to
be
not
a
little
dubious
as
to
her
further
control
over
him
.
Recently
,
or
since
he
had
secured
this
latest
place
,
for
some
reason
he
had
seemed
to
her
to
have
grown
wiser
,
more
assured
,
less
dubious
of
himself
,
inclined
to
go
his
own
way
and
keep
his
own
counsel
.
And
while
this
had
troubled
her
not
a
little
in
one
sense
,
it
rather
pleased
her
in
another
.
For
to
see
Clyde
,
who
had
always
seemed
because
of
his
sensitiveness
and
unrest
so
much
of
a
problem
to
her
,
developing
in
this
very
interesting
way
was
something
;
though
at
times
,
and
in
view
of
his
very
recent
finery
,
she
had
been
wondering
and
troubled
as
to
the
nature
of
the
company
he
might
be
keeping
.
But
since
his
hours
were
so
long
and
so
absorbing
,
and
whatever
money
he
made
appeared
to
be
going
into
clothes
,
she
felt
that
she
had
no
real
reason
to
complain
.
Her
one
other
thought
was
that
perhaps
he
was
beginning
to
act
a
little
selfish
--
to
think
too
much
of
his
own
comfort
--
and
yet
in
the
face
of
his
long
deprivations
she
could
not
very
well
begrudge
him
any
temporary
pleasure
,
either
.
