古墓之谜 3

Two,INTRODUCING AMY LEATHERAN,I don’t pretend to be an author or to know anything about writing. I’m doing this simply becauseDr.?Reilly asked me to, and somehow when Dr.?Reilly asks you to do a thing you don’t like torefuse.,“Oh, but, doctor,” I said, “I’m not literary—not literary at all. ”,“Nonsense!
” he said. “Treat it as case notes, if you like.”,Well, of course, you can look at it that way.,“If one of the interested parties writes it, it won’t carry conviction. They’ll say it’s biased ¹ oneway or another. ”,And of course that was true, too. I was in it all and yet an outsider, so to speak.,“Why don’t you write it yourself, doctor?
” I asked.,“I wasn’t on the spot—you were. Besides,” he added with a sigh, “my daughter won’t letme. ”,The way he knuckles ² under to that chit of a girl of his is downright disgraceful. I had half amind to say so, when I saw that his eyes were twinkling. That was the worst of Dr.?Reilly. Younever knew whether he was joking or not. He always said things in the same slow melancholy ³ way—but half the time there was a twinkle underneath ⁴ it.,The Methods: They employed were heavily biased in the gentry's favour. 他们采用的方法严重偏袒中上阶级 。,He gripped the wheel until his knuckles whitened. 他紧紧握住方向盘 ，握得指关节都变白了
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