Water bottle, she took a happy look at her room, rose-pink and Nattier-blue,
With the gold cherubs of her dressing-table, and sighed with satisfaction. She
Thought how very Madame de Pompadour it was. She put out the light but she
did not feel at all sleepy. She would have liked really to go to Quag's and
Dance, but not to dance with Michael, to dance with Louis XV or Ludwig of
Bavaria or Alfred de Musset. Clairon and the Bal de l'Opra.
She remembered the miniature ( )
Charles had once given her ( ). That was how
she felt tonight ( ). Such an
adventure ( ) had not happened to her for ages (
// ; age ). The last time was eight years
before ( :
). That was an episode ( : ) that she ought to
have been thoroughly ashamed of (
; thoroughly; to be ashamed of smth. ,
); goodness, how scared she'd been afterwards (,
/ /; goodness ,
; . , , ,
), but she had in point of fact never been able to think of it since (,
, :
) without a chuckle ( ).
adventure [qd'ventSq] episode ['epIsqVd] afterward(s) ['Q:ftqwqd(z)]
She remembered the miniature Charles had once given her. That was how she
Felt tonight. Such an adventure had not happened to her for ages. The last
time was eight years before. That was' an episode that she ought to have been
thoroughly ashamed of; goodness, how scared she'd been afterwards, but she
Had in point of fact never been able to think of it since without a chuckle.
That had been an accident too ( :
; accident // , ). She had been
acting for a long time without a rest (
) and she badly needed one ( //; badly
/.-./ , ). The play she was in was ceasing to
attract (, //, //) and
they were about to start rehearsing a new one (
//; to be about to do smth.
-) when Michael got the chance (
; to get a chance ) of letting the theatre to a
French company for six weeks (
; to let . , ). It seemed a good opportunity (
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) for Julia to get away (
//; to get away , ). Dolly had rented a house at
Cannes for the season ( ) and Julia could stay
with her ( ). It was just before Easter (
) when she started off ( ; to start
off = start out ), and the trains south were so crowded (
, // , ) that she had not been able to
get a sleeper ( : //
; sleeper = sleeping-car ), but at a travel
agency they had said ( ) that it would be
quite all right ( ) and there would be one waiting for her (
/ / : ) at the station in Paris
( ).
Easter ['i:stq] crowded ['kraVdId] sleeper ['sli:pq]
That had been an accident too. She had been acting for a long time without a
