“太好了,”她说,“真有你的。” “我想,”他接着说,“现在是周六下午,我们可以去萨利纳斯的一家饭店吃顿饭,再去看场电影,庆祝一下,你看怎么样。”“太好了,”她重复道。“真是好极了。”亨利接着开玩笑说,“今天晚上有拳击赛,你愿意看吗?”“不,”她紧张地说,“我可不喜欢拳击赛。”“骗你哪,伊利莎。我们去看电影。让我想一下,现在是下午两点,我去叫斯哥迪,把牛赶下山。这大概要两个钟头。我们会在五点钟到城里,去克民诺斯酒店吃晚饭。你觉得怎么样?”“当然可以,在外面吃饭好。”“那好,我去准备几匹马。”“我想我会有充裕的时间把这些苗儿种上的。”伊利莎说。
She heard her husband calling Scotty down by the barn. And a little later she saw the two men ride up the pale yellow hillside in search of the steers. There was a little square sandy bed kept for rooting the chrysanthemums. With her trowel she turned the soil over and over, and smoothed it and patted it firm. Then she dug ten parallel trenches to receive the sets. Back at the chrysanthemum bed she pulled out the little crisp shoots, trimmed off the leaves of each one with her scissors and laid it on a small orderly pile.
继而,她听到丈夫在谷仓那儿叫斯哥迪。又过了一会儿,她看见他们两个骑着马,走上灰黄的山坡找菜牛。花园里有一块四四方方的沙地,是用来种菊花幼苗的。她用泥铲把土翻了又翻,又弄平,再拍结实。然后又挖了十道平行的小沟,好栽种菊苗。她从菊花园里拔了些脆嫩的幼苗,用剪刀剪掉叶子,然后整齐地放在一起。
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