【有声英语文学名著】英国病人 81

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 He would pack before the evening began, which would allow him to just climb into the truck the next morning, hung over. So he drove her into town, the air humid, the traffic bad and slow because of the hour. “It’s so hot. " (she said). "I need a beer. Do you want one?” “No, I have to arrange for a lot of things in the next couple of hours. You’ll have to excuse me.” “That’s all right,” she said. “I don’t want to interfere¹.” “I’ll have one with you when I come back.” “In three weeks, right?” “About that.” “I wish I were going too.” He said nothing in answer to that. They crossed the Bulaq Bridge and the traffic got worse. Too many carts, too many pedestrians² who owned the streets. He cut south along the Nile towards the Semiramis Hotel, where she was staying, just beyond the barracks. “You’re going to find Zerzura this time, aren’t you.” “I’m going to find it this time.”