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CHAPTER XXXIX
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Possibly it was the brightness and freshness of this first day, the romance of an international fair in America, the snowy whiteness of the buildings against the morning sun, a blue sky and a bluer lake, the lagoons1 weaving in and out, achieving a lightness and an airiness wholly at war with anything that this Western world had as yet presented, which caused me to be swept into a dream from which I did not recover for months. I walked away a little space with my friend of the night before, learning more of her home and environment. As I saw her now, she seemed more and more natural, winsome2, inviting3. Humor seemed a part of her, and romance, as well as understanding and patience, a quiet and restful and undisturbed patience. I liked her immensely. She seemed from the first to offer me an understanding and a sympathy which I had never yet realized in any one. She smiled at my humor, appreciated my moods. Returning to my room late in the afternoon I was conscious of a difficult task, what to write that was worth while, and yet so deeply moved by it all that I could have clapped my hands for joy. I wanted to versify or describe it—a mood which youth will understand and maturity4 smile at, which causes the mind to sing, to set forth5 on fantastic pilgrimages.
But if I wrote anything worth while I cannot now recall it. I was too eager to loaf and dream and do nothing at all, almost too idle to concentrate on what I had been called upon to do. I sent off something, a thousand or so words of drivel or rapture6, and then settled to my real task of seeing the Fair by night and by day. Now that I was here I was cheered by the thought that very soon, within a day or two at most, I should be able to seek out and crow over all my old familiars, Maxwell, Dunlap, Brady, Hutchinson, a considerable group of newspaper men, as well as my brothers A—— and E——, who were here employed somewhere, and my father and several sisters.
For my father, who was now seventy-two years of age, I had, all of a sudden, as I have indicated above, the greatest sympathy. At home, up to my seventeenth or eighteenth birthday, before I got out in the world and began to make my own way, I had found him
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lagoons
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n.污水池( lagoon的名词复数 );潟湖;(大湖或江河附近的)小而浅的淡水湖;温泉形成的池塘 | |
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inviting
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maturity
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entirely
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blessing
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n.祈神赐福;祷告;祝福,祝愿 | |
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scattered
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penurious
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disposition
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mania
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eyelids
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n.眼睑( eyelid的名词复数 );眼睛也不眨一下;不露声色;面不改色 | |
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passbook
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confession
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obstinate
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persuasion
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adj.(妇女)丰满的,有健康美的 | |
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delightful
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adj.令人高兴的,使人快乐的 | |
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wagon
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n.四轮马车,手推车,面包车;无盖运货列车 | |
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advantageous
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cynical
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credentials
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n.证明,资格,证明书,证件 | |
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browsed
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v.吃草( browse的过去式和过去分词 );随意翻阅;(在商店里)随便看看;(在计算机上)浏览信息 | |
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lure
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lured
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parlor
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rosy
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linen
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robust
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severely
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malice
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n.恶意,怨恨,蓄意;[律]预谋 | |
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kindly
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indifference
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n.不感兴趣,不关心,冷淡,不在乎 | |
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quelled
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v.(用武力)制止,结束,镇压( quell的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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soothing
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adj.慰藉的;使人宽心的;镇静的 | |
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muffled
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adj.(声音)被隔的;听不太清的;(衣服)裹严的;蒙住的v.压抑,捂住( muffle的过去式和过去分词 );用厚厚的衣帽包着(自己) | |
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flutes
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长笛( flute的名词复数 ); 细长香槟杯(形似长笛) | |
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vibrant
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adj.震颤的,响亮的,充满活力的,精力充沛的,(色彩)鲜明的 | |
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intrigue
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ecstasy
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n.狂喜,心醉神怡,入迷 | |
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ardent
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adj.热情的,热烈的,强烈的,烈性的 | |
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pagoda
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deliberately
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descended
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allied
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conceal
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shrug
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eerie
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spectral
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shrugged
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shred
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reluctance
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astonishment
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temperaments
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性格( temperament的名词复数 ); (人或动物的)气质; 易冲动; (性情)暴躁 | |
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innocence
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