She takes another sip of coffee, and smiles as she remembers people from the past. The old lady down the road thought she had a ghost in the house, she says, but it was only old Tom MaAleer, frightening her for fun. The memories come fast. Twenty men, they had, only tem years ago, to bring in the potato crop. Young Hugh has a machine now. He only needs five.
It's time for the news on TV. Mrs. Chambers wants to see the racing results. She won quite a lot of money last week. Next month she's going down to Tipperary in the Republic of Ireland . The horse-racing there is wonderful. She finds it hard to stay away. But before the racing results there's another item of news. A bomb has exploded in Belfast . Several people have been killed. Mrs. Chambers shakes her head. They're all crazy, she says. It's just a few who make all the trouble. The rest of us want to live in peace. We've all got life long friends from both sides. And most of the time we never talk about the trouble.
The racing results come on. She leans forward to watch. For her, ordinary everyday life is the most important thing.
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乔柏斯太太舒服地坐在扶手椅里,享受着一杯咖啡。她有权利放松,她已经过了很长时间的忙碌生活了。
现在乔柏斯太太已经退休了,住在班戈区的一所小房子里。班戈区是贝尔法斯特附近一个广受喜爱的海边小城。但是在生命中的大部分时间里,她都住在农村。她丈夫在斯福德湖中间的一座岛上有一个农场。乔柏斯太太每周都烤两次面包,每个夏天都要做果酱,每天 12 点准时把丈夫的午饭摆在桌上。岛上的那个农场属于乔柏斯家族已经很多年了,是从父辈传下来的。那是个安静美丽的地方。他们自己种土豆和蔬菜,还养母鸡和奶牛。乔柏斯先生去世后,他的儿子接管了农场,乔柏斯太太搬离了那里。
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