杰克对着报纸皱起了眉头。“这些人都是谁？”
Jake scowled at the newspaper. “Who are all these people?”
马龙深吸了一口气。“你应该知道文宁家族。迈克尔?文宁就是文宁家族的代表。除了签收支票，他从未为家族做过任何事情。他刚刚回国，这是他二十年来的第一次回国访问。他一直住在东方，印度、新加坡、上海，因为他喜欢那里。他是个高大魁梧的家伙，看起来脾气可能很坏，而且没什么脑子。他的妻子是个身材高挑优雅的女人，体态像一匹非常漂亮的马，看起来就像宿醉未醒的麦克白夫人。不知道她带着这个面无表情的护士，是为了有人陪伴还是因为她有点傻，她时来自森林湖和夏洛瓦的普特南家族。”
Malone drew a long breath. “Even you ought to be familiar with the Venning estate. Michael Venning is the Venning estate. He’s never done anything for it except cash the checks. Just returned to this country for his first visit in twenty years. Been living in the Orient—India, Singapore, Shanghai—because he liked it there. Big, beefy guy, looks as though he might have an ugly temper and no brains worth mentioning. His wife is a tall, graceful dame with a figure like a very beautiful horse. Looks like Lady Macbeth with a bad hang-over. Can’t figure if she has this granite-puss nurse just to keep her pany or because she’s a dopey. She’s of the Putnams, of Lake Forest and Charlevoix.”
杰克用牙齿发出一声轻蔑的啧啧声，说：“我们可以把你宣传成吉纳维耶芙?马龙，给你找份写社交专栏的工作。把瓶子递给我，接着讲你的故事。”
Jake made an insulting, clucking noise with his teeth and said, “We could bill you as Genevieve Malone and get you a job writing society columns. Hand me the bottle and go on with your story.”
“我离开的时候，麦克劳林那小子还醉得不省人事。即使醉眼惺忪，他也很帅气，有一种迷人的堕落感。他是那种买了六双英国制造的鞋子、在地中海找到一个漂亮小岛，然后在在那里度过余生的那种女人的独子。他在那里的高档私立学校长大。母亲大约一年前去世了，断奶对他来说是个不小的打击。莫娜?麦克莱恩是他母亲的好友，所以她把他带在身边照顾。”
“The McLaurin boy was still passed out when I left. Good-looking even when cockeyed, in an appealingly revolting sort of 方式。He was the only child of the sort of dame who buys six pairs of British-made shoes, finds a nice island in the Mediterranean, and lives there the rest of her life. He was brought up there and in swanky private schools. Mamma kicked the bucket about a year ago, and the cutting of the apron strings was a nasty sock. Mona McClane was a close pal of his old lady, so she’s taken him under her wing.”
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