'Will you not go with us?' asked Martin, looking directly at his friend for the first time since the dread2 explanation concerning Emily Mitchell had passed between them, and still speaking with nervous trepidation4; 'will you not go with us?'
'No,' replied Humphrey, 'not now; there is something which I think ought to be done, and I am the proper person to do it.'
'His manner was so odd that both Alice and Martin were struck by it at once, and the latter, taking Humphrey by the arm, drew him aside for a moment and said,
'I have an idea of what now fills your mind, and of the errand on which you are going. You will not suffer yourself to run into any danger?'
'Danger!'
'I repeat the word--danger! Life has a new happiness in store for you now, Humphrey Statham, and should consequently be more precious than you have ever yet considered it.'
His voice had regained5 its usual clear tone, and as he spoke6 he looked frankly7 in his friend's eyes. In the gaze which met his own, Martin saw that the deadly wrong which he had unwittingly wrought8 upon his companion was forgiven, and had he doubted it, the grasp with which his hand was seized would have been sufficient proof.
'Don't fear for me, old friend,' said Humphrey, his face glowing with delight at the idea which Martin's words had aroused; 'depend upon it I will run no risks, and neither by word or act give a chance by which I or others could be compromised. But it is necessary that a word of warning should be spoken in a certain quarter, with energy and promptitude. So for the present farewell.'
He turned to Alice as he finished speaking, and raising his hat was about to move away. But she put out her hand to him, and said, with pretty becoming hesitation9, 'I cannot thank you as I ought, Mr. Statham, for the manner in which you have just pleaded my cause with--with that lady, any more than I can show my gratitude10 for the constant kindness I have met with at your hands.'
Humphrey Statham attempted to make a reply, but gave utterance11 to nothing. The words failed him, and for the first time in his life perhaps he was fairly nonplused. As the sweet young voice rang on his ear, as he felt the pressure of the warm soft hand, a strange vibration12 ran through him, and he knew himself on the point of giving way to an exhibition of feeling, the possibility of which a few months previously13 he would have laughed to scorn. So with a bow and a smile he turned on his heel and hurried rapidly away.
Martin watched his friend's departing figure for a moment, then with a half-sigh he said to his companion, 'I am glad that you spoke your thanks to Humphrey so warmly, Alice; for he has been your truest and best friend.'
'Rather say one of them,' said Alice, laying her hand lightly on his arm; 'you take no credit to yourself, Mr. Gurwood.'
The colour had faded from his cheeks and from his compressed lips ere he replied coldly, 'I take as much as is my due. Now let me call a cab and take you home, for on our way there I have something more to say to you.'
'Something more,' she cried, with a frightened air. 'O, Mr. Gurwood, nothing more dreadful, I hope; nothing that--'
'Do you imagine for an instant that I would put you to unnecessary suffering,' he said, almost tenderly, looking down into her pleading upturned eyes; 'that I, or any of us, would not shield you from any possible annoyance14. No, what I have to say to you will, I think, be rather pleasant to you than otherwise. Here is the cab; I will tell you as we go along.'
When they were seated in the vehicle, Martin said to his companion, 'You have now, Alice, had Madame Du Tertre for your friend quite long enough to judge of her disposition15, and to know whether the desire to serve your interests which she originally professed16 was dictated17 by a spirit of regard for you, or merely assumed to serve her own purposes.'
'There can be no question in the matter,' said Alice, almost indignantly; 'nothing can exceed the devotion which Pauline has exhibited to me ever since we came together. She is infinitely18 more like an elder sister to me than a person whose acquaintance I seem to have made by the merest chance.'
'There is often more than chance in these matters,' said Martin gravely; 'more than there seems to be in the chance use of a word. You have said that Pauline has seemed to you as an elder sister--suppose she really stood to you in that position?
'That could scarcely be,' said Alice; 'for years and years I had no relation but my poor brother, and since his death--'
'Since his death Providence19 has sent some one to fill his place much more efficiently20 than he ever filled it himself; so far as you are concerned, my poor child,' said Martin.
And then he told her what had occurred between them and Pauline at Statham's office, omitting, of course, all reference to the jealous feelings by which the Frenchwoman had at first been actuated, and dwelling21 upon the self-sacrifice and devotion with which she had espoused22 her kinswoman's cause.
Alice was much touched at this narrative23, and when they reached home she embraced Pauline with such tenderness, that the latter knew at once that her story had been told; knew too, that Martin had been silent about the incidents of her early life and the reasons which had originally prompted her to throw herself in Alice's way, and was proportionately grateful to him.
Late that night, when they were together, Alice lying in her bed and Pauline sitting by her side, the two women had a long, earnest, and affectionate talk, in the course of which the strange events which the day had brought to light came under discussion. It was evident to Pauline that Alice had braced24 herself up to talk of her own position, and of the deception25 of which she had been the victim; but the Frenchwoman saw that her companion was in no condition to bear the excitement which such a topic would necessarily evoke26, and gradually, but skilfully27, drew her away from it. The case, however, was different when Alice depicted29 the rage and consternation30 of Mrs. Calverley at learning the part taken by her son in the concealment31 of the Claxton mystery. This was a point in which Pauline took the keenest interest, and she induced Alice to dilate32 on it at her will, framing her questions with much subtlety33, and pondering over each answer she received. When Alice stated Mrs. Calverley's intention of disinheriting her son, and leaving him to struggle on in the comparatively obscure position which he then occupied, something like a ray of light shot into Pauline's darkened soul. Should the intention thus announced be carried out, should Martin be left to his own resources, she might then have the chance, such as never could occur to her under other circumstances, of proving her disinterested34 love for him. For the man of wealth, for the man even with great expectations, she could do nothing; any advances which she might make, any assistance which she might offer; the world would but regard as so much small bait thrown out for the purpose of securing a greater booty; and he, knowing as he did the circumstances of her previous life, the scheming predatory manner of her early existence, would too surely be of the opinion of the world. But if he were poor, and broken, and humbled35, grieving over the alienation36 of his mother, and feeling himself solitary37 and shunned38, her self-appointed task in winning him, in proving to him her devotion, in placing at his disposal the small means which she had, the worldly talent which even he acknowledged she possessed39, would be a very much easier one.
'Mistress of her own fortune, and would continue to remain so; that is what she said, is it?' Pauline asked, after a pause.
'That is what she said, and that she renounced40 her son, and revoked41 all the declarations she had hitherto made in his favour,' said Alice. 'Was it not dreadful for poor Mr. Gurwood? I do pity him so.'
'Do you?' said Pauline, turning her searching gaze full upon the girl's face. 'Yes, I daresay you do. It is natural you should; Mr. Gurwood has been a good friend to you.'
'The best--almost the best--I had in the world.'
'Almost the best! Why, who could rank equal with him?'
'Mr. Gurwood himself said Mr. Statham,' cried Alice with downcast eyes.
'Ay, ay,' said Pauline quickly. Then, after an interval42 of a few minutes, the old cynical43 spirit coming over her, she added, more as if talking to herself than to her companion, 'I don't think we need trouble ourselves much, for Mr. Gurwood's sake, about that old woman's threat. I know her well; she is hard and cold and proud; but with all those charming qualities, and like many of your rigid44 English Pharisees, she is superstitious45 to a degree. She dare not make a will for fear of dying immediately she had signed her name to it; and if she dies without a will, her son inherits all her property. Vogue46 la galère,! Mr. Gurwood's chances are not so bad after all. There,' she added, in a softened47 voice, seeing Alice gazing at her in astonishment48, 'get to sleep now, child; you have had a long and trying day, and must be quite wearied out.'
Alice fell asleep almost immediately, but for more than an hour afterwards Pauline sat with her feet on the fender gazing into the slowly dying embers and pondering over the circumstances by which she was surrounded. 'What was that Alice had said, that she so pitied Martin Gurwood? Yes, those were the words, and pity was akin3 to love.' But the expression on her face when she spoke had, as Pauline had noticed, nothing significant or tell-tale in it. Was there anything in the suspicion concerning Alice and Martin which had once crossed her mind? She thought not, she hoped not. And yet, what interest had she in that? There was but little chance that this one real passion of her life, her love for this quiet sedate49 young clergyman, this man so different in manner, thought, and profession from any other she had ever known--there was but little chance that her devotion would be recognised by or even known to him. Well, even in this world justice is sometimes meted50 out, as Père Gosselin used to tell her--ah, grand Dieu, how far away in the mists of ages seem Père Gosselin and the chapel51 of Notre Dame1 de la Garde and all the old Marseilles life!--and so she supposes she ought not to expect much happiness, and with a shrug52 of her shoulders and a wearied sigh, Pauline crept silently to her bed.
* * * * *
When Mr. Wetter, at the conclusion of his interview with Alice, took his departure from Pollington-terrace, he found himself unexpectedly with some spare time upon his hands. The result of that interview had been so different from what he had anticipated, his preconceived arrangement had been so rudely overthrown53, that he was almost unable at first to realise his position, and was in some doubt as to the nature of the next steps it would be best for him to take.
'A most unsatisfactory and ridiculous conclusion,' said he to himself, dropping from the hurried pace at which he had quitted the house into a leisurely54 amble55; 'most unsatisfactory and highly ridiculous, to think that a man of my experience, who has been in the habit of treating matters of this kind for so many years, and with so many different styles of persons, should allow himself to be shut up and put down by that mild-spoken innocent, is beyond all powers of comprehension. I suppose it was because she was innocent that I gave way. I had expected something so completely different, that when it dawned upon me that she was speaking the truth, and that she actually had believed herself to be that old rascal's wife, I was so taken aback, that my usual savoir-faire completely deserted56 me. No doubt about the fact, though I think women's attempts at innocence57 are generally spoiled by being overdone58; but this seemed in every way to be the genuine article. What a scoundrel must that Calverley have been This is just another instance of those men who are so highly respectable, and looked up to as patterns of all the domestic virtues59, turning out after death to have been the most consummate60 hypocrites and shams61, and infinitely worse than most of us, who, because we are less circumspect62, have obtained the reputation of being black sheep. I myself never went in for being particularly straitlaced, but certainly I was never guilty of such a cold-blooded piece of villany as that perpetrated by the respectable patriarch of Great Walpole-street.
'What an idiot I was not to have recognised at once that a person of her appearance and manner could not be what she seemed, not to have discovered that she was in a false position, and ignorant herself of what must have been thought about her! Then, of course, I should have approached her in a different manner, made other plans equally easy of execution and far more certain of success. What an idiot I am,' he continued, striking his cane63 with vehemence64 against the ground, 'to think about her any more! There are hundreds of women quite as pretty and far more fascinating who would be only too well pleased to receive any attention from me, so why do I worry myself about one who has given me such a decided65 rebuff. Why? Most likely from the fact that that very rebuff has given piquancy66 to the adventure, that I am disinclined, because unaccustomed, to sit down under a sense of failure, and because--there!--because she seems to have bewitched me, and at my time of life, with all my experience, I am as much in love with her as if I were a boy suffering under my first passion.'
With a gesture of contempt for his own folly67 Mr. Wetter called a cab, and caused himself to be conveyed to his lodgings68 in South Audley-street, whence, at the expiration69 of a quarter of an hour, he issued to mount his horse, which he had ordered to be brought round to him, and to ride off at a sharp pace. Whither? With the one idea of Alice dominant70 in his mind, he thought he would like to see once more the spot to which his attention had once been attracted; and though he had not much daylight before him, he turned his horse's head in the direction of Hendon.
Daylight was in truth beginning to wane71, and Miss M'Craw, who was true to her old habits, and kept up as strict a system of espionage72 upon the family of the American gentleman, then domiciled in Rose Cottage, as ever she had upon Alice and John Calverley, was thinking of retiring from her post of observation at the window, when the figures of the horseman and his chestnut73 thoroughbred, which had formerly74 been so familiar to her, once more met her view.
Miss M'Craw strained almost out of the window with astonishment. 'What on earth has brought him back after so long an absence?' she said to herself. 'He cannot possibly be going to call upon those horrible American people.'
From her employment of this adjective, it will be gathered that Miss M'Craw did not cherish a particularly friendly feeling towards the new occupants of Rose Cottage. The fact was that her inquisitiveness75 and propensity76 to scandal came speedily under the observation of Mr. Hiram B. Crocker, the American gentleman in question, who described them under the head of 'general cussedness,' declined the acquaintance of Miss M'Craw, and had huge hoardings built up in the corners of his grounds for the purpose of intercepting77 her virgin78 gaze.
No, the equestrian79 was not going to call at Rose Cottage; did not stop at the gate, but rode slowly on until he reined-in his horse in the accustomed spot on the brow of the hill, and raising himself in his stirrups stood for an instant looking into the garden. He remembered then how he had first seen her tending her flowers, and looking eagerly out, evidently awaiting the arrival of some one, and how in a subsequent ramble80 he had discovered that some one to be John Calverley of Great Walpole-street, and all that had happened therefrom.
'How well the cards lay to my hand at one time,' he said to himself with an impatient gesture; 'and what a mess I have made of the game.' And with that he shook his horse's bridle81 and cantered away.
When Mr. Wetter reached South Audley-street, he found his groom82 standing83 on the curbstone, and a gentlemen in the act of knocking at the door. Alighting, he found this gentleman, to his great astonishment, to be Mr. Humphrey Statham; and at sight of him an uneasy pang84 shot through Mr. Wetter's mind. Humphrey Statham was, as he knew, an intimate friend of Mrs. Claxton's, and his visit there was doubtless on business connected with her. If she had described the scene which had passed between them that morning, that business would doubtless be of a very unpleasant character, and Mr. Wetter was not a brave man physically85. He had borne in his time a vast amount of moral obloquy86, and borne it well; but he had a horror of anything like physical pain, and Humphrey Statham was a big, strong, and resolute87 man. No wonder, therefore, that the article which did Mr. Wetter duty for a conscience quailed88 within him, or that he felt sorely uncomfortable when he recognised the visitor on his doorstep.
But he was the last man to give any early outward sign of such emotion, and it was in sprightly89 tones and with an air of easy jauntiness90 that he said,
'My dear Mr. Statham, I congratulate myself immensely on having returned so exactly in the nick of time, if, as I imagine, you were about to do me the honour of paying me a visit.'
'I was coming to call upon you, Mr. Wetter,' said Statham simply.
'Then pray walk in,' said Wetter, opening the door with his key, and following closely after him up the stairs. 'Take that chair; you will find it, I think, a particularly comfortable one; and,' going to an old oak sideboard, 'let me give you an appetiser, a petit verre of absinthe or vermouth. They are both here, and either of them is a most delicious ante-prandial specific.'
'No, thank you,' said Humphrey Statham; 'I will not drink with you.'
Whether intentionally91 or not, he laid such stress on the last words that Mr. Wetter looked up at him for an instant with flashing eyes. But his voice was quite calm when, a minute after he said, 'I will not attempt to persuade you. There is no such mistaken hospitality as that. And now, as a man of your business habits does not waste his time without a purpose, I will inquire the object of this visit.'
'It is not one into which business enters, in the strict sense of the word,' said Statham.
'So much the better,' said Mr. Wetter, with a gay smile. 'What is not a visit of business must be a visit of pleasure.'
'I hope you will find it so,' said Statham grimly. 'Its object, so far as I am concerned, is very easily stated. You were at Mrs. Claxton's to-day?'
'I was,' said Wetter, putting a bold face on the matter.
'And when there you thought it expedient92 to your purpose, and being expedient for your purpose, not below your dignity as a man, to subject your hostess for the time to the grossest insult that could be passed upon any one.'
'Sir!' cried Wetter, springing up.
'Be patient, Mr. Wetter, please,' said Humphrey Statham calmly; 'I have a great deal more to say. This lady had been made the victim of a most shameful93, most diabolical94 fraud--the innocent victim, mind, of a fraud which robbed her of her good name, and blasted her position among honest men and women. She was ignorant as well as innocent, she knew not how basely she had been deceived; her friends kindly95 conspired96 to hide from her the blackness of her surroundings, and to keep her, poor child, in a fool's paradise of her own. And they succeeded until you came.'
'I was the serpent, in point of fact, in this fool's paradise that you speak of.'
'The character fits you to a nicety, Mr. Wetter, and you kept up the allegory by opening the eyes of the woman and causing her to know the position she occupied! Which was a genial97, gentlemanly, generous act!'
'Look here,' said Mr. Wetter, 'there is a certain amount of right in what you say, though you are sufficiently98 hard upon me. But you know all is fair in love.'
'Love!' cried Statham scornfully.
'Well,' said Mr. Wetter, 'it is the most euphonious99 name for the feeling. All is fair in love or war, and I give you my word that when I spoke to Mrs. Claxton, I fully28 believed that she knew perfectly100 well the position she was occupying, and had accepted it of her own free will.'
'Do you believe that now?'
'No, I do not. I am a tolerably good hand at reading character, and there was something in her look and manner which convinced me that her statement, that she really believed Calverley to be Claxton, and imagined herself to be his wife, was true.'
'Don't let us use harsh words, please, Mr. Statham. This is all very fine talking, but the fact remains102 the same. This lady was John Calverley's mistress; nothing can put that aside or blot103 that out. What I proposed to do was, to make her very rich, and happy, and comfortable. Could a man be found who would do any more? Is there any one who would be such a fool as to marry her?'
'Yes,' said Humphrey Statham, rising from his seat and confronting his companion; 'yes, Mr. Wetter,' he said, speaking very slowly, 'there is one man whose dearest hope in life it is to marry Alice Claxton. You are a man of the world, Mr. Wetter, and having said that much, I need add nothing to make you understand that it will be best and safest for you to respect her for the future. I came here this evening to impress this upon you, and having done so, I take my leave. Goodnight.'
And as he walked out, he saw by the expression of Mr. Wetter's face that no farther interference on the part of that gentleman was to be looked for.
点击
收听单词发音
收听单词发音 |
1
dame
|
|
| n.女士 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
2
dread
|
|
| vt.担忧，忧虑；惧怕，不敢；n.担忧，畏惧 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
3
akin
|
|
| adj.同族的，类似的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
4
trepidation
|
|
| n.惊恐，惶恐 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
5
regained
|
|
| 复得( regain的过去式和过去分词 )； 赢回； 重回； 复至某地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
6
spoke
|
|
| n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
7
frankly
|
|
| adv.坦白地，直率地；坦率地说 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
8
wrought
|
|
| v.引起；以…原料制作；运转；adj.制造的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
9
hesitation
|
|
| n.犹豫，踌躇 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
10
gratitude
|
|
| adj.感激，感谢 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
11
utterance
|
|
| n.用言语表达，话语，言语 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
12
vibration
|
|
| n.颤动，振动；摆动 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
13
previously
|
|
| adv.以前，先前（地） | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
14
annoyance
|
|
| n.恼怒，生气，烦恼 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
15
disposition
|
|
| n.性情，性格；意向，倾向；排列，部署 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
16
professed
|
|
| 公开声称的，伪称的，已立誓信教的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
17
dictated
|
|
| v.大声讲或读( dictate的过去式和过去分词 )；口授；支配；摆布 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
18
infinitely
|
|
| adv.无限地，无穷地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
19
providence
|
|
| n.深谋远虑，天道，天意；远见；节约；上帝 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
20
efficiently
|
|
| adv.高效率地，有能力地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
21
dwelling
|
|
| n.住宅，住所，寓所 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
22
espoused
|
|
| v.（决定）支持，拥护（目标、主张等）( espouse的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
23
narrative
|
|
| n.叙述，故事；adj.叙事的，故事体的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
24
braced
|
|
| adj.拉牢的v.支住( brace的过去式和过去分词 )；撑牢；使自己站稳；振作起来 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
25
deception
|
|
| n.欺骗，欺诈；骗局，诡计 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
26
evoke
|
|
| vt.唤起，引起，使人想起 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
27
skilfully
|
|
| adv. (美skillfully)熟练地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
28
fully
|
|
| adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
29
depicted
|
|
| 描绘，描画( depict的过去式和过去分词 )； 描述 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
30
consternation
|
|
| n.大为吃惊，惊骇 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
31
concealment
|
|
| n.隐藏, 掩盖，隐瞒 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
32
dilate
|
|
| vt.使膨胀，使扩大 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
33
subtlety
|
|
| n.微妙，敏锐，精巧；微妙之处，细微的区别 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
34
disinterested
|
|
| adj.不关心的，不感兴趣的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
35
humbled
|
|
| adj. 卑下的，谦逊的，粗陋的 vt. 使 ... 卑下，贬低 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
36
alienation
|
|
| n.疏远；离间；异化 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
37
solitary
|
|
| adj.孤独的，独立的，荒凉的；n.隐士 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
38
shunned
|
|
| v.避开，回避，避免( shun的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
39
possessed
|
|
| adj.疯狂的；拥有的，占有的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
40
renounced
|
|
| v.声明放弃( renounce的过去式和过去分词 )；宣布放弃；宣布与…决裂；宣布摒弃 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
41
revoked
|
|
| adj.[法]取消的v.撤销，取消，废除( revoke的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
42
interval
|
|
| n.间隔，间距；幕间休息，中场休息 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
43
cynical
|
|
| adj.(对人性或动机)怀疑的，不信世道向善的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
44
rigid
|
|
| adj.严格的，死板的；刚硬的，僵硬的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
45
superstitious
|
|
| adj.迷信的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
46
Vogue
|
|
| n.时髦，时尚；adj.流行的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
47
softened
|
|
| （使）变软( soften的过去式和过去分词 )； 缓解打击； 缓和； 安慰 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
48
astonishment
|
|
| n.惊奇，惊异 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
49
sedate
|
|
| adj.沉着的，镇静的，安静的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
50
meted
|
|
| v.（对某人）施以，给予（处罚等）( mete的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
51
chapel
|
|
| n.小教堂，殡仪馆 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
52
shrug
|
|
| v.耸肩(表示怀疑、冷漠、不知等) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
53
overthrown
|
|
| adj. 打翻的，推倒的，倾覆的 动词overthrow的过去分词 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
54
leisurely
|
|
| adj.悠闲的；从容的，慢慢的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
55
amble
|
|
| vi.缓行，漫步 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
56
deserted
|
|
| adj.荒芜的，荒废的，无人的，被遗弃的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
57
innocence
|
|
| n.无罪；天真；无害 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
58
overdone
|
|
| v.做得过分( overdo的过去分词 )；太夸张；把…煮得太久；（工作等）过度 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
59
virtues
|
|
| 美德( virtue的名词复数 )； 德行； 优点； 长处 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
60
consummate
|
|
| adj.完美的；v.成婚；使完美 [反]baffle | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
61
shams
|
|
| 假象( sham的名词复数 )； 假货； 虚假的行为（或感情、言语等）； 假装…的人 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
62
circumspect
|
|
| adj.慎重的，谨慎的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
63
cane
|
|
| n.手杖，细长的茎，藤条；v.以杖击，以藤编制的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
64
vehemence
|
|
| n.热切；激烈；愤怒 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
65
decided
|
|
| adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
66
piquancy
|
|
| n.辛辣，辣味，痛快 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
67
folly
|
|
| n.愚笨，愚蠢，蠢事，蠢行，傻话 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
68
lodgings
|
|
| n. 出租的房舍, 寄宿舍 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
69
expiration
|
|
| n.终结，期满，呼气，呼出物 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
70
dominant
|
|
| adj.支配的，统治的；占优势的；显性的；n.主因，要素，主要的人(或物)；显性基因 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
71
wane
|
|
| n.衰微，亏缺，变弱；v.变小，亏缺，呈下弦 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
72
espionage
|
|
| n.间谍行为，谍报活动 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
73
chestnut
|
|
| n.栗树，栗子 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
74
formerly
|
|
| adv.从前，以前 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
75
inquisitiveness
|
|
| 好奇，求知欲 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
76
propensity
|
|
| n.倾向；习性 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
77
intercepting
|
|
| 截取（技术），截接 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
78
virgin
|
|
| n.处女，未婚女子；adj.未经使用的；未经开发的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
79
equestrian
|
|
| adj.骑马的；n.马术 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
80
ramble
|
|
| v.漫步，漫谈，漫游；n.漫步，闲谈，蔓延 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
81
bridle
|
|
| n.笼头，束缚；vt.抑制，约束；动怒 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
82
groom
|
|
| vt.给（马、狗等）梳毛，照料，使...整洁 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
83
standing
|
|
| n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
84
pang
|
|
| n.剧痛，悲痛，苦闷 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
85
physically
|
|
| adj.物质上，体格上，身体上，按自然规律 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
86
obloquy
|
|
| n.斥责，大骂 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
87
resolute
|
|
| adj.坚决的，果敢的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
88
quailed
|
|
| 害怕，发抖，畏缩( quail的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
89
sprightly
|
|
| adj.愉快的，活泼的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
90
jauntiness
|
|
| n.心满意足；洋洋得意；高兴；活泼 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
|
91
intentionally
|
|
| ad.故意地，有意地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
92
expedient
|
|
| adj.有用的，有利的；n.紧急的办法，权宜之计 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
93
shameful
|
|
| adj.可耻的，不道德的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
94
diabolical
|
|
| adj.恶魔似的，凶暴的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
95
kindly
|
|
| adj.和蔼的，温和的，爽快的；adv.温和地，亲切地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
96
conspired
|
|
| 密谋( conspire的过去式和过去分词 )； 搞阴谋； （事件等）巧合； 共同导致 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
97
genial
|
|
| adj.亲切的，和蔼的，愉快的，脾气好的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
98
sufficiently
|
|
| adv.足够地，充分地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
99
euphonious
|
|
| adj.好听的，悦耳的，和谐的 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
100
perfectly
|
|
| adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
101
insolence
|
|
| n.傲慢；无礼；厚颜；傲慢的态度 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
102
remains
|
|
| n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
|
103
blot
|
|
| vt.弄脏（用吸墨纸）吸干；n.污点，污渍 | |
参考例句： |
|
|
|
| 欢迎访问英文小说网 |