Make Your Way 7, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

God forgive me, while Susan smoked a cigarette and read tourist brochures out in the car. I nished storing the suitcases, bags and cartons in the trunk and backseat and waited while Nancy said a nal goodbye on the porch. She shook hands with each of them and turned and came toward the car. I waved to the couple, and they waved back. Nancy got in and shut the door. ‘Let’s go,’ she said. I put the car in gear and we headed for the freeway. At the light just before the freeway we saw a car ahead of us come o the freeway trailing a broken mu er, the sparks ying. ‘Look at that,’ Nancy said. It might catch re.’ We waited and watched until the car managed to pull o the road on to the shoulder. We stopped at a little café o the highway near Sebastopol. Eat and Gas, the sign read. We laughed at the sign. I pulled up in front of the café and we went inside and took a table near a window in the back of the café. A er we had ordered co ee and sandwiches, Nancy touched her fore nger to the table and began tracing lines in the wood. I lit a cigarette and looked outside. I saw rapid movement, and then I realized I was looking at a hummingbird in the bush beside the window. Its wings moved in a blur of motion and it kept dipping its beak into a blossom on the bush. ‘Nancy, look,’ I said. ere’s a hummingbird.’ But the hummingbird ew at this moment and Nancy looked and said, ‘Where? I don’t see it.’ It was just there a minute ago,’ I said. ‘Look, there it is. Another one, I think. It’s another humming- bird.’ We watched the hummingbird until the waitress brought our order and the bird ew at the movement and disappeared around the building. ‘Now that’s a good sign, I think,’ I said. ‘Hummingbirds. Hummingbirds are supposed to bring luck.’ ‘I’ve heard that somewhere,’ she said. ‘I don’t know where I heard that, but I’ve heard it. Well,’ she said, ‘luck is what we could use. Wouldn’t you say?’ ‘ ey’re a good sign,’ I said. ‘I’m glad we stopped here.’ She nodded. She waited a minute, then she took a bite of her sandwich. We reached Eureka just before dark. We passed the motel on the highway where Susan and I had stayed and had spent the three nights some weeks before, then turned o the highway and took a road up over a hill overlooking the town. I had the house keys in my pocket. We drove over the hill and for a mile or so until we came to a little intersection with a service station and a grocery store. ere were wooded mountains ahead of us in the valley, and pastureland all around. Some cattle were grazing in a eld behind the service station. ‘ is is pretty country,’ Nancy said. I’m anxious to see the house.’ ‘Almost there,’ I said. ‘It’s just down this road,’ I said, ‘and over that rise.’ ‘Here,’ I said in a minute and pulled into a long driveway with hedge on either side. ‘Here it is. What do you think of this?’ I’d asked the same question of Susan when she and I had stopped in the driveway. ‘It’s nice,’ Nancy said. ‘It looks ne, it does. Let’s get out.’ We stood in the front yard a minute and looked around. en we went up the porch steps and I unlocked the front door and turned on the lights. We went through the house. ere were two small bedrooms, a bath, a living room with old furniture and a replace, and a big kitchen with a view of the valley. ‘Do you like it?’ I said. ‘I think it’s just wonderful,’ Nancy said. She grinned. ‘I’m glad you found it. I’m glad we’re here.’ She opened the refrigerator and ran a nger over the counter. ‘ ank God, it looks clean enough. I won’t have to do any cleaning.’ ‘Right down to clean sheets on the beds,’ I said. ‘I checked. I made sure. at’s the way they’re renting it. Pillows even. And pillowcases, too.’ ‘We’ll have to buy some rewood,’ she said. We were standing in the living room. ‘We’ll want to have a re on nights like this.’ ‘I’ll look into rewood tomorrow,’ I said. ‘We can go shopping then too and see the town.’ She looked at me and said, ‘I’m glad we’re here.’ ‘So am I,’ I said. I opened my arms and she moved to me. I held her. I could feel her trembling. I turned her face up and kissed her on either cheek. ‘Nancy,’ I said. ‘I’m glad we’re here,’ she said. muffler (Æ): Auspufftopf shoulder: Seitenstreifen hummingbird: Kolibri blur of motion: verschwommene Bewegung driveway: Zufahrt pillowcase: Polsterbezug 134 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des V rlags öbv