《了不起的盖茨比·Chapter V》第13节
And inside, as we wandered through Marie Antoinette music-rooms and Restoration Salons, I felt that there were guests concealed behind every couch and table, under orders to be breathlessly silent until we had passed through. As Gatsby closed the door of “the Merton College Library” I could have sworn I heard the owl-eyed man break into ghostly laughter. We went upstairs, through period bedrooms swathed in rose and lavender silk and vivid with new flowers, through dressing-rooms and poolrooms, and bathrooms with sunken baths—intruding into one chamber where a dishevelled man in pyjamas was doing liver exercises on the floor. It was Mr. Klipspringer, the “boarder.” I had seen him wandering hungrily about the beach that morning. Finally we came to Gatsby’s own apartment, a bedroom and a bath, and an Adam’s study, where we sat down and drank a glass of some Chartreuse he took from a cupboard in the wall. He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real. Once he nearly toppled down a flight of stairs.
注释摘要
三人在盖茨比的宅邸里穿行。尼克领着读者走过一连串冠以历史风格之名的房间：玛丽·安托瓦内特音乐厅，复辟时期沙龙，然后是“默顿学院图书馆”。盖茨比关上这间图书室的门时，尼克说他几乎可以发誓听见了那位“猫头鹰眼镜男人”幽灵般的笑声。这个细节很要紧：上次尼克在盖茨比的派对上遇见那个戴猫头鹰式大眼镜的陌生人，那人曾对这间图书室里一本本真书却书页未裁开表示惊叹。此刻的…