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NOT always remarkable1 for arriving at just conclusions, Lady Loring had drawn2 the right inference this time. Stella had stopped the first cab that passed her, and had directed the driver to Camp’s Hill, Islington.
The aspect of the miserable3 little street, closed at one end, and swarming4 with dirty children quarreling over their play, daunted5 her for the moment. Even the cabman, drawing up at the entrance to the street, expressed his opinion that it was a queer sort of place for a young lady to venture into alone. Stella thought of Romayne. Her firm persuasion6 that she was helping7 him to perform an act of mercy, which was (to his mind) an act of atonement as well, roused her courage. She boldly approached the open door of No. 10, and knocked on it with her parasol.
The tangled8 gray hair and grimy face of a hideous9 old woman showed themselves slowly at the end of the passage, rising from the strong-smelling obscurity of the kitchen regions. “What do you want?” said the half-seen witch of the London slums. “Does Madame Marillac live here?” Stella asked. “Do you mean the foreigner?” “Yes.” “Second door.” With those instructions the upper half of the witch sank and vanished. Stella gathered her skirts together, and ascended11 a filthy12 flight of stairs for the first time in her life.
Coarse voices, shameless language, gross laughter behind the closed doors of the first floor hurried her on her way to the rooms on the higher flight. Here there was a change for the better — here, at least, there was silence. She knocked at the door on the landing of the second floor. A gentle voice answered, in French; “Entrez!”— then quickly substituted the English equivalent, “Come in!” Stella opened the door.

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adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的 | |
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密集( swarm的现在分词 ); 云集; 成群地移动; 蜜蜂或其他飞行昆虫成群地飞来飞去 | |
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使(某人)气馁,威吓( daunt的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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n.劝说;说服;持有某种信仰的宗派 | |
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(wide area network)广域网 | |
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wretch
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virgin
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elasticity
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gathering
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positively
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anonymous
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benefactor
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concealment
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submission
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adv.严格地;严厉地;非常恶劣地 | |
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miserably
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adv.痛苦地;悲惨地;糟糕地;极度地 | |
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n.调查( inquiry的名词复数 );疑问;探究;打听 | |
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eldest
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distressed
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baker
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Christian
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duel
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entreated
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interval
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allude
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trifling
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pauper
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asylum
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privately
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steadily
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adv.稳定地;不变地;持续地 | |
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vaudeville
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inveterate
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reluctance
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n.厌恶,讨厌,勉强,不情愿 | |
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misery
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n.痛苦,苦恼,苦难;悲惨的境遇,贫苦 | |
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mere
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consolation
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