【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER TWO(11)(在线收听

 She still carried with her that aura of having been something-in-the-Sixties –  Dexter had seen the photographs, the clippings from faded  colour supplements  –  but  with no apparent sadness or regret she had given this up for a resolutely respectable, secure, comfortable family life. Typically, it was as if she had sensed exactly the right moment to leave the party. Dexter suspected that she had occasional  flings  with  the  doctors,  the lawyers,  the  people  who  spoke  on  the  radio,  but  he found it hard to be angry with her. And always people said the same thing – that he had got it  from  her.  No-one  was  specific  about  what "it‘  was,  but  everyone  seem  to  know;  looks  of course, energy and good health, but also a certain nonchalant self-confidence, the right to be at the centre of things, on the winning team.

Even  now,  as  she  sat  in  her  washed-out  blue  summer  dress,  fishing  in  her  immense  handbag  for  matches,  it  seemed  as  if  the  life  of  the  Piazza  revolved  around  her.  Shrewd brown eyes in a heart-shaped face under a mess of expensively dishevelled black hair,  her dress undone one button too far, an immaculate mess. She saw him approach and her face cracked with a wide smile.
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