Meanwhile Julia had been playing a succession of important parts and was
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- 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
- Table by her side. She looked at him while he read the paper. Was it possible
- He specialized in men about town, gentlemanly gamblers, guardsmen and
- It was a warm beautiful night. Michael had bought options, though it wrung
- Light dawned on him, and he was so surprised that he slowed down. Was it
- Care of yourself. It's a chance in a thousand, and I think it would be madness
- Julia spent a happy morning in bed reading the Sunday papers. She read first
- Kneeling by her side put his arms round her.
- Was happier than he had ever been before. It was a damned satisfactory
- To her praise of his exquisite nose and beautiful eyes. She got a little private
- Unkind things she had for so long been thinking of him.
- He was getting more out of her than any other director had done.
- Outrageously vain of his person.
- Now and slipped between the sheets.
- Side to him. And terribly good-looking. My word.
- From which the fat had been cut, and some dry toast. Julia got up, dressed,
- Prosperous to me. For all you know he may have gone without his dinner for a
- Fan letters. That was how she kept in touch with her public. Having addressed
- Tamerleys, who had never got on very well, agreed to separate. It was indeed
- Her magnetism was incontestable. It gave him quite a thrill to realize on a
- Middle-aged man, and she thought of him as a nice old thing. She was madly
- His beautiful manners she could count upon him not making a nuisance of
Recognized as the best of the younger actresses. Throughout the war the
Theatre was very prosperous, and she profited by being seen in plays that had
Long runs. Salaries went up, and with Michael to advise her she was able to
Extort eighty pounds a week from reluctant managers. Michael came over to
England on his leaves and Julia was divinely happy. Though he was in no
More danger than if he had been sheep-farming in New Zealand, she acted as
Though the brief periods he spent with her were the last days the doomed man
Would ever enjoy on earth.
She treated him (она обращалась с ним так) as though he had just come (как
если бы он только что возвратился) from the horror of the trenches (от ужасов
окопов: «траншей») and was tender, considerate, and unexacting (и была
нежной, внимательной и нетребовательной).
It was just before the end of the war (как раз перед самым окончанием войны)
that she fell out of love with him (она его разлюбила; to fall out of love with smb.
— разлюбить кого-либо).
  
She was pregnant at the time (она была беременна в это время). Michael had
judged it imprudent (Майкл рассудил, что это было неблагоразумным) to have
a baby just then (завести ребенка именно тогда), but she was nearly thirty (но ей
было почти тридцать) and thought (и думала) that if they were going to have one
at all (что если они собираются иметь /ребенка/ вообще) they ought to delay no
longer (им не следует больше откладывать); she was so well established on the
stage (она занимала такое прочное положение в профессии: «на сцене»;
established — упрочившийся, установившийся, признанный) that she could
afford (что она могла позволить) not to appear for a few months (не появляться
/на публике/ несколько месяцев), and with the possibility that Michael might be
killed at any moment (и с той возможностью, что Майкла могли убить в любой
момент) — it was true he said he was as safe as a house (по правде: «это было
правдой» он говорил, что /он/ был в полнейшей безопасности; as safe as a
house — совершенно надежный, обеспеченный, безопасный), he only said that
to reassure her (он говорил так, только чтобы успокоить ее), and even generals
were killed sometimes (и даже генералов иногда убивают) — if she was to go on
living (если она собирается продолжать жить) she must have a child by him
(она должна иметь ребенка от него).
trench [trentS] unexacting ["AnIg'zxktIN] imprudent [Im'pru:d(q)nt]
She treated him as though he had just come from the horror of the trenches
And was tender, considerate, and unexacting.
It was just before the end of the war that she fell out of love with him.
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