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奧格特里夫人也在，她愉快地興奮著，竭力做出震驚和恐懼的樣子。傑克想起在火車和公共汽車上的人們讀著早報上的災難報道，用興奮甚至近乎高興的聲音說：“太可怕了！” 她身上有種近乎禿鷲的氣質。傑克想起了馬克斯?胡克的揭露，不知道透過和奧格特里夫人的安排，有多少八卦的小片段被變成了有利可圖的勒索材料。

there was rs ogletree, pleasantly excited and dog her ftterg best to appear shocked and horror-stricken jake was reded of people on tras and bes readg the aounts of disasters the orng paper, sayg, “how awful!” exhirated and alost eted voices there was thg alost vulture-like about her jake rebered ax hook’s revetion, and wondered how any tender orsels of gossip had been turned to crative bckail by the arrannt with rs ogletree

威爾斯?奧格特里在他妻子旁邊，看起來好像在用他那貴族般的鼻孔努力確定一隻不久前死在牆裡的老鼠的確切位置。

wells ogletree, beside his wife, looked as though he were tryg, with his aristocratic nostrils, to decide on the exact location of a oe that had perished, not too recently, the wall

艾倫?奧格特里和倫納德?馬奇蒙特一起坐在沙發上。艾倫看起來非常無聊，極其不滿，馬奇蒙特表現得就像一個在酣睡中被電話叫醒的人。他們倆似乎都覺得整個過程不僅絕對令人不快，而且極其沉悶。

ellen ogletree and leonard archont sat tother on a fa ellen looked very bored and extrely disntented, archont acted like a an who has jt been called to