云中命案 12

Chapter 12,At Horbury Chase,Lord Horbury stood by the sideboard and helped himself absent-mindedly to kidneys.,Stephen Horbury was twenty-seven years of age. He had a narrow head and a long chin. Helooked very much what he was—a sporting out-of-door kind of man without anything veryspectacular in the way of brains. He was kind- hearted, slightly priggish, intensely loyal andinvincibly obstinate ¹.,He took his heaped plate back to the table and began to eat. Presently he opened a newspaper,but immediately, with a frown, he cast it aside. He thrust aside his unfinished plate, drank somecoffee and rose to his feet. He paused uncertainly for a minute, then with a slight nod of the headhe left the dining-room, crossed the wide hall and went upstairs. He tapped at a door and waitedfor a minute. From inside the room a clear high voice cried out, ‘Come in.’,Lord Horbury went in.,Any man might be excused if his breath came a little faster confronted by so much loveliness;but the charming picture his wife presented affected ³ Lord Horbury not at all.,There had been a time, three years ago, when the breathtaking loveliness of his Cicely had setthe young man’s senses reeling. He had been madly, wildly, passionately ⁴ in love. All that wasover. He had been mad. He was now sane ⁵.,Lady Horbury said in some surprise:,‘Why, Stephen?’,He said abruptly ⁶, ‘I’d like to talk to you alone.’,The trader was obstinate in the negotiation.这个商人在谈判中拗强固执 。,He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。