And there she remained for the rest of the evening. It was an unusually long evening.
Yet, somehow, in spite of its notable length—affording, as it did, an excellent opportunity for undisturbed work,—Colonel Musgrave found, with a pricking2 conscience, that he made astonishingly slight progress in an exhaustive monograph3 upon the fragmentary Orderly Book of an obscure captain in a long-forgotten regiment4, which if it had not actually served in the Revolution, had at least been demonstrably granted money "for services," and so entitled hundreds of aspirants5 to become the Sons (or Daughters) of various international disagreements.
Nor did he see her at breakfast—nor at dinner.

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retired
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adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的 | |
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刺,刺痕,刺痛感 | |
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n.专题文章,专题著作 | |
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n.团,多数,管理;v.组织,编成团,统制 | |
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n.有志向或渴望获得…的人( aspirant的名词复数 )v.渴望的,有抱负的,追求名誉或地位的( aspirant的第三人称单数 );有志向或渴望获得…的人 | |
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