He found thehouse, a weather-beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the lastminute the firm ordered him to Washington, and I went out to the country alone.

房子是他找的，一套风吹雨淋的木板平房，每月八十块钱。 但即将办妥的最后一刻，公司调他去了华盛顿，于是我只身一人前往郊区居住。

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