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The king was working in the garden.He seemed very glad to see me.We walked through the garden.This is the queen,he said.She was clipping a rose bush.Oh how do you do,she said.We sat down at a table under a big tree and the king ordered whiskey and soda.We have good whiskey anyway,he said.The revolutionary committee,he told me,would not allow him to go outside the palace grounds.Plastiras is a very good man I believe,he said,but frightfully difficult.I think he did right though shooting those chaps.If Kerensky had shot a few men things might have been altogether different.Of course the great thing in this sort of an affair is not to be shot oneself!

国王在花园里劳作。看到我，他似乎很高兴。我们一路穿过花园。这位是王后，他向我介绍。她正在修剪一丛玫瑰。噢，你好啊，她说。我们在大树下的桌子旁坐下，国王命人端来威士忌苏打水。不管怎样，我们的威士忌很出色，他说。他告诉我，革命委员会不允许他走出宫殿。我相信帕拉斯蒂拉斯是个很好的人，他说，就是极其难说话。我觉得他做得对，尽管他杀掉了那些小伙子。如果是克伦斯基杀了几个人，那情况可能就完全不同了。当然，这类事件发生时，最重要的是自己不能死在枪下！

It was very jolly.We talked for a long time.Like all Greeks he wanted to go to America.

我们的交谈很愉快。我们谈了很久。跟所有希腊人一样，他梦想着到美国去。