pile of postcards alone ran a fr over the, saw that they all bore the sa picture; an overlored reproduction of sea, sky, and o trees he unted the there were exactly forty-eight

他把它們翻過來，注意到四十八張都有同樣的郵戳和同樣的訊息：“玩得很開心，希望你也在這兒。” 二十四張署名 “傑克”，另外二十四張署名 “海倫”。

he turned the over, noted that all forty-eight had the sa postark and the sa ssa: “havg wonderful ti, wish you were here” enty-four of the were signed “jake,” the other enty-four were signed “helene”

小個子律師把明信片整整齊齊地疊好，深深地嘆了口氣，然後把注意力轉向其餘的郵件。廣告扔進了廢紙簍，還有三個小信封也扔了進去，信封上分別是三種不同的女性筆跡。他開啟四封商務信件，看了看日期和簽名，然後把它們放進標有 “未讀信件” 的資料夾裡。他匆匆看了一眼第五封商務信件，然後把它放進標有 “未回覆信件” 的資料夾裡。其餘的都是賬單。

小主，這個章節後面還有哦，，後面更精彩！

the little wyer id the a neat stack, sighed deeply, and turned his attention to the rest of the ail advertisents went the wastebasket, did three sallish envelopes, addressed three different fee handwritgs he opened four bess letters, noted the dates and the signatures, and pced the the file arked “unread rrespondence” he gnced through a fifth bess letter and pced it the file arked “unanswered rrespondence” the rest were bills

他開啟薩克斯百貨的賬單，看到那個來自巴黎咖啡館的長腿黑髮女子在和一個失業的單簧管演奏者去紐約之前，用他的賬戶買了六雙長筒襪和一條緊身內衣的費用，他把賬單揉成一個緊實的小紙團，扔到破舊的皮沙發下面。他快速看了一眼大樓物業管理公司送來的賬單，讀了用漂亮的斯賓塞字型寫的措辭禮貌的便條，然後下定決心一旦有錢就把房租付了。他把那張賬單塞進外套口袋，把其餘的都掃進廢紙簍，雙手交叉放在腦後，向後靠在椅子上思考事情。

he opened the bill fro saks, saw that the long-legd brute fro chez paree had put six pairs of stockgs and a girdle on his char aount before gog to new york with an uneployed