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第16部分

…布蘭福德猛抽了一口煙,心跳更加快了。

一位年輕的女士向他走來,她身材苗條,金黃的捲髮攏在小巧的耳後,雙唇紅潤,下巴精緻,眼睛深藍動人。她穿著淡綠的西裝,渾身散發著青春的活力。

他開始向她走去,根本沒注意她是否戴著玫瑰花,他走近,看到她嘴角浮起動人的微笑。

“問路嗎,軍人?”她輕輕地說。他又走近一步,接著,他看到了霍麗絲?梅內爾。

霍麗絲?梅內爾就站在這姑娘的身後,一個40多歲的女人,灰白的頭髮塞在破舊的帽子下面,很胖,厚實的雙腳穿著低跟鞋。

可在她那皺巴巴的外衣上彆著一朵紅玫瑰。

綠衣女孩匆匆離去。

布蘭福德心碎了,他多想跟著那女孩啊,然而他又真切地渴望見這個女人,是她的精神一直陪伴他,激勵他;她就站在那裡,蒼白豐滿的面龐,溫柔而理性;灰色的眼睛裡閃著溫和的光芒。

布蘭福德沒有猶豫,他緊抓著那本破舊的《人性的枷鎖》,它是向她證明身份的依據。儘管這不會是愛情,但是一種珍貴的東西,是他曾經擁有並要感激的友情……

儘管因深深的失望而感到痛苦,布蘭福德仍擺正雙肩,敬了個禮,然後把書遞給那個女人,“我是約翰?布蘭福德,您——您是梅內爾女士吧,我可以——可以請您吃飯嗎?”

女人微笑著。“孩子,我不明白這是怎麼回事,”她說道,“那位穿綠衣服的年輕小姐請求我戴上這朵玫瑰,她說如果你請我一塊出去,就告訴你,她在街對面的餐廳等你。她說這是一種考驗。”

■ 心靈小語

愛情之花需要甘露的沐浴才能綻放。如果你是一個嚮往愛情的人,那麼開始用美好的品質來澆這盆愛之花,這樣它才能成長,才能長出蓓蕾,才能美麗綻放。

愛的約會(2)

Appointment with Love

Anonymous

Six minutes to six; said the clock over the information booth in New York’s Grand Central Station。 The tall; young Army lieutenant1 lifted his sunburned face and narrowed his eyes to note the exact time。 His heart was pounding with a beat。 In six minutes he would see the woman who had filled such a special place in his life for the past 13 months; the woman he had never seen; yet whose written words had sustained2 him unfailingly。

Lieutenant Blandford remembered one day in particular; during the worst of the fighting; when his plane had been caught in the midst of a pack of enemy planes。 In one of his letters he had confessed3 to her that he often felt fear; and only a few days b