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大学英语精读第五册07 大耳朵英语　 　 2005-09-30 00:40:20　 【打印】 UNIT 7TEXTOliver Barrett IV, a Harvard student from a wealthy WASP family, fell in love with Jennifer, a Radcliff music major, daughter of a pastry chef of Italian descent. Jennifer returned his love. The two of them started talking about marriage, thinking they were made for each other. A banker and a squeamish parent, Oliver Barrett III refused to give his blessing to the proposed alliance. Oliver and Jennifer thereupon went ahead on their own, contented with their love in a cottage.We join the novel in Chapter 13, three years after Oliver married Jennifer regardless of his fathers fierce opposition. One day, they received an invitation from Olivers parents to the old mans sixtieth birthday party. Jennifer preferred accepting the invitation, regarding it as a good opportunity for a reconciliation between father and son. But Oliver wouldnt give it a thought. Thus the two of them had a violent quarrel…Love Storyby Erich SegalCHAPTER 13Mr. And Mrs. Oliver Barrett IIIrequest the pleasure of your companyat a dinner in celebration ofMr. Barretts sixtieth birthdaySaturday, the sixth of Marchat seven oclockDover House, Ipswich, MassachusettsR. S. V. P.Well? asked Jennifer.Do you even have to ask? I replied. I was in the midst of abstracting The State v. Percival, a very important precedent in criminal law. Jenny was sort of waving the invitation to bug me.I think its about time, Oliver, she said.For what?For you know very well what, she answered. Does he have to crawl here on his hands and knees?I kept working as she worked me over.Ollie — hes reaching out to you!Bullshit, Jenny. My mother addressed the envelope. I thought you said you didnt look at it! she sort of yelled.Okay, so I did glance at it earlier. Maybe it had slipped my mind. I was, after all, in the midst of abstracting The State v. Percival, and in the virtual shadow of exams. The point was she should have stopped haranguing me.Ol