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John Rossiter's Wife
約翰·羅西特的太太
by Charles G. Norris
查爾斯·G·諾里斯
The most fascinating place in the United States is Palm Beach and the most interesting spotin Palm Beach is "Whitney's." The name isn't Whitney's at all, but anyone who has ever been to Palm Beach will know the establishment to which I refer.
美國最迷人的地方是棕櫚灘，棕櫚灘最有意思的地方是惠特尼飯店。這爿店根本不叫惠特尼，但凡是去過棕櫚灘的人，都知道我指的是哪一家店。
Whitney's is a restaurant and a gambling place，and sooner or later everybody who comes to Palm Beach visit Whitney's.
惠特尼是家飯店兼賭場，凡是來棕櫚灘的人遲早會去光顧惠特尼。
There is no restaurant or hotel in France, Italy, Germany, or Spain whose food can compare with Whitney's. At Whitney's there are no menus; you order what you wish from an endless variety of special foods, anything from duck soup to bird's tongues - and the surprising fact is that you get what you order. But on your first visit to Whitney's you often pay little attention to what you eat, for very soon, as the room commences to fill, you can hardly believe your eyes. At every table you soon recognize someone who is either famous or notorious.
在法國、意大利、德國或是西班牙，沒有一家飯店或賓館的菜肴能與惠特尼的相比?；萏啬犸埖昀餂]有菜單，你從那無窮無盡各種各樣的獨特菜肴當中點自己想點的菜，從鴨湯到鳥舌，什么都行——令人驚訝的是，你點什么就能吃到什么?？墒?，初訪惠特尼時，你常常很少留意自己吃什么，因為不一會兒當飯店開始坐滿時，你幾乎難以相信自己的眼睛。在每一張桌子上你馬上就會認出某個不是享有盛譽，就是臭名昭著的人。
After lunch this brilliantly dressed group of persons goes down to the gambling room. By two o'clockthis room is well filled, by three it is crowed, and it remains so until the early hours of the morning. It is far more interesting and better conducted than Monte Carlo.Iwas deeply impressed, and soon I welcomed an opportunity to meet Mr. Whitney himself.
午餐后，這群服飾華麗的人走向賭場。到了兩點，屋子就很滿了，到了3點便相當擁擠了，就這樣一直要延續(xù)到次日清晨。這兒比蒙特卡羅有趣多了，管理也好得多，給我留下了很深的印象，不久我愉快地接受了一個采訪惠特尼先生本人的機會。
