《了不起的盖茨比·Chapter IX》第14节
He was reluctant to close the book, reading each item aloud and then looking eagerly at me. I think he rather expected me to copy down the list for my own use. A little before three the Lutheran minister arrived from Flushing, and I began to look involuntarily out the windows for other cars. So did Gatsby’s father. And as the time passed and the servants came in and stood waiting in the hall, his eyes began to blink anxiously, and he spoke of the rain in a worried, uncertain way. The minister glanced several times at his watch, so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour. But it wasn’t any use. Nobody came. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ About five o’clock our procession of three cars reached the cemetery and stopped in a thick drizzle beside the gate—first a motor hearse, horribly black and wet, then Mr. Gatz and the minister and me in the limousine, and a little later four or five servants and the postman from West Egg, in Gatsby’s station wagon, all wet to the skin. As we started through the gate into the cemetery I heard a car stop and then the sound of someone splashing after us over the soggy ground. I looked around. It was the man with owl-eyed glasses whom I had found marvelling over Gatsby’s books in the library one night three months before.
注释摘要
老人不肯合上那本书。他把每一条计划都念出声来，念完便热切地看向尼克，那眼神里分明有一种期待——他大约在等着尼克把这表格抄下来，拿去自己用。快到三点时，从弗拉辛请来的路德宗牧师到了，我不由自主地开始往窗外望，看还有没有别的车来。盖兹先生也望着窗外。时间一分一秒过去，仆人们也走进来，站在门厅里等着，老人的眼睛开始焦急地眨动，他谈起雨来，语气里透着不安和拿不准。…