尼罗河的惨案10

XIn his office downtown Mr. Andrew Pennington was opening his personal mail. Suddenly his fistclenched itself and came down on his desk with a bang; his face crimsoned ¹ and two big veinsstood out on his forehead. He pressed a buzzer ² on his desk and a smart-looking stenographerappeared with commendable ³ promptitude.,“Tell Mr. Rockford to step in here.”,“Yes, Mr. Pennington. ”,A few minutes later, Sterndale Rockford, Pennington’s partner, entered the office. The two menwere not unlike—both tall, spare, with greying hair and clean-shaven, clever faces.,“What’s up, Pennington?
”,Pennington looked up from the letter he was rereading. He said. “Linnet’s married….”,“You heard what I said! Linnet Ridgeway’s married! ”,“How? When? Why didn’t we hear about it?
”,Pennington glanced at the calendar on his desk.,“She wasn’t married when she wrote this letter, but she’s married now. Morning of the fourth.,That’s today.”,Tu Hsueh-shih took this attitude of his nephew as a downright insult and crimsoned violently. 这在杜学诗看来
，简直是对于他老叔的侮辱
。他满脸通红了！ 来自子夜部分,The buzzer went off at eight o'clock.蜂鸣器在8点钟时响了。