Lamb, he had not been able to bring himself to spring to that, but she was so
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- 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.
- Meanwhile Julia had been playing a succession of important parts and was
- She was pregnant at the time. Michael had judged it imprudent to have a
- Been so badly wounded that they had got their discharge.
- Little sick. She could not respond to his ardour, she was eager that he should
Touched that he should give her anything that she could not help crying.
"What an emotional little thing you are," he said, but he was pleased and
Touched to see her tears.
She found his thrift rather an engaging trait. He could not bear to throw his
Money about. He was not exactly mean, but he was not generous. Once or
Twice at restaurants she thought he undertipped the waiter, but he paid no
Attention to her when she ventured to remonstrate. He gave the exact ten per
Cent, and when he could not make the exact sum to a penny asked the waiter
For change.
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be," he quoted from Polonius.
When some member of the company (когда кто-нибудь из членов труппы),
momentarily hard up (временно находящийся в затруднительном положении;
hard up — испытывающий денежные затруднения, без денег), tried to borrow
from him (пытался занять у него /денег/) it was in vain (то это было
бесполезно; in vain — тщетно, безрезультатно). But he refused so frankly (но
он отказывал так открыто), with so much heartiness (с такой сердечностью),
that he did not affront (что он не оскорблял /просителя/).
"My dear old boy (мой /дорогой/ приятель: «старина, дружище»), I'd love to
lend you a quid (я бы с удовольствием одолжил тебе соверен), but I'm
absolutely stony (но я совершенно без денег; stony — каменный,
безжалостный, полностью разоренный, без средств). I don't know how I'm
going to pay my rent (/я/ не знаю, как я заплачу: «собираюсь заплатить» /мою/
плату за квартиру) at the end of the week (в конце недели)."
  
For some months (несколько месяцев) Michael was so much occupied (Майкл
был настолько увлечен: «занят»; to occupy — занимать место, заполнять
время) with his own parts (своими собственными ролями) that he failed to
notice (что он не сумел заметить; to fail to do smth. — оказаться неспособным
сделать что-то, не позаботиться о чем-либо) — how good an actress Julia
was (насколько хорошей актрисой была Джулия). Of course he read the reviews
(конечно же он читал рецензии), and their praise of Julia (и их похвалы
Джулии), but he read summarily (но он прочитывал бегло: «суммарно»),
without paying much attention (не обращая особого внимания) till he came to
the remarks (пока не доходил до упоминаний: «замечаний») the critics made
about him (критиков /сделанных/ о нем самом). He was pleased by their
approval (он был доволен их одобрением; to approve — одобрять, считать
правильным), but not cast down by their censure (и не расстраивался из-за
критических оценок: «осуждения»; to cast down — разрушать, повергать в
уныние: «бросать вниз»). He was too modest (он был слишком скромным,
чтобы) to resent an unfavourable criticism (обижаться на неблагоприятную
критику; to resent — негодовать, возмущаться).
momentarily ['mqVmqnt(q)rIlI] heartiness ['hQ:tInIs] censure ['senSq]
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