H's pop was a corporation lawyer

He's wealthy and invested Broadway shows

The show investments flopped sometimes which depressed H's mom

Mom is nervous after Allie died

Thats why H hated to let mom know he's been axed for the second time

H eats light

H loves malted milk which he thought was full of vitamins

H called himself Holden Vitamin Caulfield

In came two nuns with suitcases

H helped them with their non-expensive suitcases

This led H back to Elkton Hill days when he lived 2 months with a Dick Slagle

Dick hid his cheap suitcases under the bed because H's Mark Cross suitcases were too flashy

Slagle started calling H's everything "bourgeois"

H started moving his own mark Cross under the bed too

Slagle started moving his cheap bags onto the suitcase rack

H deciphered that Slagle wanted people to think that The cheap ones were H's while the Mark Crosses were his

Both the two of them asked to move out

H picked Stradlater at Pencey because "his suitcases were as good as mine"

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Maid answered H's phone

Then her father

Then came Sally Hayes

Sally bragged about her new Harvard date and a guy in West Point, a cadet

H asked to meet 2 o'clock at Baltimore station

He's taking her to a show at 2:30

H checked out hotel and onboard a cab

He started counting his cash in the wallet and found he spent a lot these two weeks

spendthrift 揮霍無度的人

"What I don't spend, I lose."

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H barely moved himself to the bathroom for a shot of Bourbon

H started imagining he revenged himself with an automatic in the pocket after he ambushed Maurice in the elevator

H would throw the pistol into the elevator shaft after wiping out all his fingerprints

Then H swore he had seen too many movies that he was almost ruined by it

H wished to throw himself out of the window

The image his corpse was surrounded by all the strangers-passersby stopped his suicide impulse

Chap. 15

H slept for some 3 or 4 hours

It was already 10 o'clock in the morning when H woke

H hadn't been eaten for 35 hours

The thought the hotel alloted Maurice to bring up his breakfast to him stopped his calling for room service

H called Sally Hayes instead

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The couple pushed into H's room

Maurice extorted another 5 bucks

H rejected

Maurice pinched H to the door

Girl took H's wallet and took a 5 buck out of it

H started swearing that Maurice would soon become stray who depended on people's pity

Maurice smacked on H's stomach

The two left

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H bet Childs that Jesus Himself wouldn't send Judas down to hell

Childs said he should go to church

H thought of parents have other religion

That's why all his siblings are atheists

H hated school ministers who sermon with the one and only phony "Holy Joe" tone

On this, a knock on the door

H guessed Maurice and Sunny

They both appeared at H's door

Maurice extorted another 5 buck

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After young prostitute left, H smoked a few cigarettes and hop on to bed

H reminisced one time he turned Allie down

He didn't bring Allie along to picnic with his friend Bobby Fallon

Ever since then, H got into the habit of speaking to Allie loudly and pushed Allie to taking his bike and come along when H was alone

Then H thought of praying

Then he remembered he was atheist who was not supposed to pray

Then he thought of his Quaker classmate Arthur Childs

He and Childs used to argue about the Disciples

H meant they were nothing but tripped Jesus down

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The girl was named Sunny

H barely kept up a conversation

H lied he had this clevichord down in the spine canal on which just had an operation

Sunny started her effort coaxing H

Sunny said H was like an actor in some Mel-vine Douglas movie

H said he hardly sees movies

Sunny got angry why H called her if he couldn't even do it

H said he'll pay

H took out 5 dollar bill

Sunny said it was 10 to be exact

H refused

Sunny went away

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Prostitute was about H's age

Prostitute kept asking if H had a watch

She crossed her leg, jiggling one of her legs

She stripped off her green dress so suddenly that H was more shocked than arroused

H started conversation

Girl was offended when H spent more time than he should

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H gave reasons why he's keeping his virginity

Girls who dated him or their parents or the other guy's date in front seats always stopped him from action

H recalled a blue book he read at Whooton

Monsieur Blanchard with a château on Riviera and whatnot

Blanchard once compared women's body to violins

That mystified H

Someone rang the room bell

H went up to open the door but tripped by his own suitcase in the way

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H thought of getting another drink before going back to hotel

He has great capacity

Once he drank whole Saturday night at Whooton school chapel

Raymond Goldfarb, his roommate, discovered he's been drinking

Two men lurched their way out of the bar, asking H direction for the subway

Cuban-looking guy kept blowing his foul breaths into H's face

H decided to go back hotel directly

Elevator guy pimped

H consented

H was a virgin

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