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CHAPTER LXVI
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And so this romance ended for me. At the time, of course, I did not know it; on leaving her I was under the impression that I was more than ever attached to her. In the face of this postponement1, life took on a grayer and more disappointing aspect. To be forced to wait when at that moment, if ever, was the time!
And yet I told myself that better days were surely in store. I would return East and in some way place myself so that soon we might be reunited. It was a figment of hope. By the time I was finally capable of maintaining her economically, my earlier mood had changed. That hour which we had known, or might have known, had gone forever. I had seen more of life, more of other women, and although even then she was by no means unattractive the original yearning2 had vanished. She was now but one of many, and there were those who were younger and more sophisticated, even more attractive.
And yet, before I left her, what days! The sunshine! The lounging under the trees! The drowsy3 summer heat! The wishing for what might not be! Having decided4 that her wish was genuine and my impulse to comply with it wise, I stood by it, wishing that it might be otherwise. I consoled myself thinly with the thought that the future must bring us together, and then left, journeying first to St. Louis and later to New York. For while I was here that letter from my brother which urged me once more to come to New York was forwarded to me. Just before leaving Pittsburgh I had sent him a collection of those silly “features” I had been writing, and he also was impressed. I must come to New York. Some metropolitan5 paper was the place for me and my material. Anyhow, I would enjoy visiting there in the summer time more than later. I wired him that I would arrive at a certain time, and then set out for St. Louis and a visit among my old newspaper friends there.
I do not know how most people take return visits, but I have often noted6 that it has only been as I have grown older and emotionally less mobile that they have become less and less significant to me. In my earlier years nothing could have been more
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decided
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metropolitan
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luster
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innately
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exterior
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fumbling
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craved
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渴望,热望( crave的过去式 ); 恳求,请求 | |
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reigned
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enticing
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rivalry
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itinerant
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theatrical
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condescending
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minor
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lighting
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lurid
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meditating
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drizzle
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v.下毛毛雨;n.毛毛雨,蒙蒙细雨 | |
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jersey
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inquiries
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graceful
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羽毛( plume的名词复数 ); 羽毛饰; 羽毛状物; 升上空中的羽状物 | |
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skyscrapers
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contemptible
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serene
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frightful
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politic
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preyed
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shameful
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graft
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adj.极好的;使人晕倒的 | |
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ousted
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驱逐( oust的过去式和过去分词 ); 革职; 罢黜; 剥夺 | |
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corruptions
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n.堕落( corruption的名词复数 );腐化;腐败;贿赂 | |
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rhythmically
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northward
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metropolis
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lining
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ascended
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entirely
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ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地 | |
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reassured
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majesty
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