用專業且通順的小說翻譯，翻譯下方英文為繁體中文，用語符合台灣常用詞彙，注意，不僅使用字面翻譯，也要搭配意譯，輸出前請反思修正過於機械翻譯語感的部門，不需要解釋 直接輸出結果
Light glissando up the piano by the bar followed by the obligatory tapping of a single high note. A song has come to the end. This is late Friday afternoon, October 1965, at the Tail O’ the Cock restaurant. Joe Coulombe, thirty-five, the smartest man in the room and just about every room he walks into, has gone jelly inside. Something bad is up. His friend and business partner, Merritt Adamson Jr., is mumbling, trying to gum up the courage to spit out some previously memorized line. The moment passes, and instead Joe watches Merritt lift a shy finger to the waiter, and order a fourth round of Gibsons.
輕快的滑奏在鋼琴上流轉，隨後是一個高音鍵的必然敲擊。一首曲子結束了。這是1965年10月的一個星期五下午，地點是Tail O’ the Cock餐廳。三十五歲的喬·庫隆布，這個房間裡最聰明的人，幾乎每個他走進的房間裡都是如此，此刻內心卻像果凍般軟弱無力。事情不妙。他的朋友兼生意夥伴梅里特·亞當森二世正在喃喃自語，試圖鼓起勇氣說出一些事先背好的話。這一刻過去了，喬看著梅里特羞怯地舉起一根手指，向服務生點了第四輪的吉布森雞尾