WHEN the two men had gone she looked through the photographs again
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- With the experienced actress's instinct to fit the gesture to the word, by a
- Him on one of his birthdays and behind it a rack in red morocco, heavily gilt,
- But Michael rose from his chair.
- The young man went scarlet. He smiled stiffly in answer to Julia's warm,
- Julia, however, had insisted that she must have her bedroom as she liked, and
- On shorts and a sweater and have a run round Regent's Park.
- Great stickler for saying the author's exact words, though, God knows, the
- Make something out of it. Of course we had to cut the other woman a lot in
- Was not particularly good-looking, but he had a frank, open face and his
- Which were signed photographs of George V and Queen Mary. Over the
- WHEN the two men had gone she looked through the photographs again
- There were photographs of Julia when she was a child, and photographs of
- A comedy line, seemed to sound all wrong when she spoke it.
- Nowhere and that if he wanted to become a leading actor he must gain
- Right intonation himself he would never let a false one pass in anyone else.
- The company laughed at him and abused him and did everything they could
- The result of the interview was that Michael got an engagement. He stayed at
- Was a boisterous, fat old woman of more than sixty, but of great vitality, who
- It was two years later that Jimmie Langton discovered her. She was on tour in
- French like a Frenchwoman and so they give you broken English parts. That's
- Out of the play you're in now before you could say knife.
- Me for? I'll give you a three years' contract, I'll give you eight pounds a week
- Company? I've got much more important things to do than that, my girl. And
- Nothing to do but act eight times a week attended the rehearsals.
- Management. One's got to be one's own master. That's the only way to make a
- Julia soon discovered that he did not much like spending money, and when
- At one time there was some talk of putting him in the university boat.
- Thought never entered his lovely head.
- Dreamt what ecstatic pleasure it gave her to spend her money on him.
- Lamb, he had not been able to bring himself to spring to that, but she was so
- When some member of the company, momentarily hard up, tried to borrow
- Ended with a powerful and moving scene in which Julia had the opportunity
- To her with absorbed interest.
- She was dressed fussily, with a sort of old-fashioned richness which did not
- Bazaar stuff, and you wondered how anyone had thought it worth bringing
- To the fire, lit a cigarette.
- For the last week she had asked herself whether or not he was going to
- Michael watched the affecting scene with sympathy.
- Indeed, that she was quite willing to become his mistress, but this he refused.
- She adored to sit cuddled up to him with his arm round her waist, her face
- Face an eager, happy smile, she felt that her muscles were stiff and hard.
- Michael gave her his sweet, good-natured smile.
- He took a swing and with his open hand gave her a great smack on the face.
- Broken my heart and ruined my whole life just to keep me in your rotten
- AFTER a fortnight of rehearsals, Michael was thrown out of the part for
- In the empty carriage and looked at herself in the glass.
- Her to her room she held up her face to his.
- THE first year of their marriage would have been stormy except for Michael's
- She gave him a look of scorn.
- Business. He eventually got a part in a costume play.
Before putting them back.
"Not bad for a woman of forty-six," she smiled. "They are like me, there's no
denying that." She looked round the room for a mirror, but there wasn't one.
"These damned decorators. Poor Michael, no wonder he never uses this room.
Of course I never have photographed well."
She had an impulse to look at some of her old photographs. Michael was a
Tidy, business-like man, and her photographs were kept in large cardboard
Cases, dated and chronologically arranged. His were in other cardboard cases
In the same cupboard.
"When someone comes along (когда появится: «придет» некто) and wants to
write the story of our careers (и захочет написать историю нашей карьеры) he'll
find all the material ready to his hand (он обнаружит: «найдет», /что/ все
 
материалы готовы /и/ у него под рукой)," he said (сказал он).
With the same laudable object (по той же самой похвальной причине:
«намерению») he had had all their press cuttings (он хранил: «имел» все
вырезки из газет о них) from the very beginning (с самого начала) pasted in a
series of large books (вклеенными в ряд: «серию» больших альбомов: «книг»).
There were photographs of Julia (там были фотографии Джулии) when she was
a child (в детстве = когда она была ребенком), and photographs of her as a
young girl (фотографии ее как молодой девушки), photographs of her in her first
parts (ее фотографии в ее первых ролях), photographs of her as a young married
woman (ее фотографии как молодой замужней женщины), with Michael (с
Майклом), and then with Roger, her son, as a baby (и затем с Роджером, ее
сыном, /когда он был/ ребенком). There was one photograph of the three of them
(была и одна фотография их троих, /на ней/), Michael very manly and
incredibly handsome (Майкл очень мужественный и невероятно красивый;
handsome — красивый /о мужчинах/, статный), herself all tenderness looking
down at Roger (она сама, сама нежность, смотрящая /вниз/ на Роджера; tender
— нежный, мягкий, ласковый, любящий) with maternal feeling (с материнским
чувством; to feel — трогать, чувствовать, ощущать), and Roger a little boy
with a curly head (и Роджер, маленький мальчик с кудрявой головкой), which
had been an enormous success (которая имела огромный успех).
career [kq'rIq] laudable ['lO:dqb(q)l] paste [peIst] incredibly [In'kredqblI]
"When someone comes along and wants to write the story of our careers he'll
find all the material ready to his hand," he said.
With the same laudable object he had had all their press cuttings from the
Very beginning pasted in a series of large books.
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