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CHAPTER XV
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All that night Saxon lay, unsleeping, without taking off her clothes, and when she arose in the morning and washed her face and dressed her hair she was aware of a strange numbness1, of a feeling of constriction2 about her head as if it were bound by a heavy band of iron. It seemed like a dull pressure upon her brain. It was the beginning of an illness that she did not know as illness. All she knew was that she felt queer. It was not fever. It was not cold. Her bodily health was as it should be, and, when she thought about it, she put her condition down to nerves—nerves, according to her ideas and the ideas of her class, being unconnected with disease.
She had a strange feeling of loss of self, of being a stranger to herself, and the world in which she moved seemed a vague and shrouded3 world. It lacked sharpness of definition. Its customary vividness was gone. She had lapses4 of memory, and was continually finding herself doing unplanned things. Thus, to her astonishment5, she came to in the back yard hanging up the week's wash. She had no recollection of having done it, yet it had been done precisely6 as it should have been done. She had boiled the sheets and pillow-slips and the table linen7. Billy's woolens8 had been washed in warm water only, with the home-made soap, the recipe of which Mercedes had given her. On investigation9, she found she had eaten a mutton chop for breakfast. This meant that she had been to the butcher shop, yet she had no memory of having gone. Curiously10, she went into the bedroom. The bed was made up and everything in order.
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n.无感觉,麻木,惊呆 | |
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压缩; 紧压的感觉; 束紧; 压缩物 | |
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linen
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ecstasy
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blessing
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explicitly
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mole
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velvet
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babble
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frankly
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tangles
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bruised
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[医]青肿的,瘀紫的 | |
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spaciousness
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crabs
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cresting
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frictionless
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trespass
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catching
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perch
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gathering
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sinister
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countless
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vats
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