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CHAPTER I
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An evident commotion1 was agitating2 the premises3, which jerked busy sounds across the front plot, resembling those of a disturbed hive. If a member of the household appeared at the door it was with a countenance4 of abstraction and concern.
Evening began to bend over the scene; and the other inhabitants of the hamlet came out to draw water, their common well being in the public road opposite the garden and house of the Paddocks. Having wound up their bucketsfull respectively they lingered, and spoke5 significantly together. From their words any casual listener might have gathered information of what had occurred.
The woodman who lived nearest the site of the story told most of the tale. Selina, the daughter of the Paddocks opposite, had been surprised that afternoon by receiving a letter from her once intended husband, then a corporal, but now a sergeant-major of dragoons, whom she had hitherto supposed to be one of the slain6 in the Battle of the Alma two or three years before.
‘She picked up wi’en against her father’s wish, as we know, and before he got his stripes,’ their informant continued. ‘Not but that the man was as hearty7 a feller as you’d meet this side o’ London. But Jacob, you see, wished her to do better, and one can understand it. However, she was determined8 to stick to him at that time; and for what happened she was not much to blame, so near as they were to matrimony when the war broke out and spoiled all.’
‘Even the very pig had been killed for the wedding,’ said a woman, ‘and the barrel o’ beer ordered in. O, the man meant
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1 commotion | |
n.骚动,动乱 | |
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搅动( agitate的现在分词 ); 激怒; 使焦虑不安; (尤指为法律、社会状况的改变而)激烈争论 | |
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3 premises | |
n.建筑物,房屋 | |
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4 countenance | |
n.脸色,面容;面部表情;vt.支持,赞同 | |
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5 spoke | |
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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6 slain | |
杀死,宰杀,杀戮( slay的过去分词 ); (slay的过去分词) | |
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7 hearty | |
adj.热情友好的;衷心的;尽情的,纵情的 | |
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8 determined | |
adj.坚定的;有决心的 | |
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9 honourable | |
adj.可敬的;荣誉的,光荣的 | |
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10 writ | |
n.命令状,书面命令 | |
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11 regiment | |
n.团,多数,管理;v.组织,编成团,统制 | |
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12 desultory | |
adj.散漫的,无方法的 | |
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13 conjectures | |
推测,猜想( conjecture的名词复数 ) | |
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ENTER A DRAGOON
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CHAPTER II
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