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CHAPTER IV
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The soldier was silent during two or three double bars of the tune1. ‘When were you to have been married to the said Mr. Bartholomew Miller2?’ he inquired.
‘Quite soon.’
‘How soon?’
‘Next week—O yes—just the same as it was with you and me. There’s a strange fate of interruption hanging over me, I sometimes think! He had bought the licence, which I preferred so that it mightn’t be like—ours. But it made no difference to the fate of it.’
‘Had bought the licence! The devil!’
‘Don’t be angry, dear John. I didn’t know!’
‘No, no, I’m not angry.’
‘It was so kind of him, considering!’
‘Yes . . . I see, of course, how natural your action was—never thinking of seeing me any more! Is it the Mr. Miller who is in this dance?’
‘Yes.’
Clark glanced round upon Bartholomew and was silent again, for some little while, and she stole a look at him, to find that he seemed changed. ‘John, you look ill!’ she almost sobbed3. ‘’Tisn’t me, is it?’
‘O dear, no. Though I hadn’t, somehow, expected it. I can’t find fault with you for a moment—and I don’t . . . This is a deuce of a long dance, don’t you think? We’ve been at it twenty minutes if a second, and the figure doesn’t allow one much rest. I’m quite out of breath.’
‘They like them so dreadfully long here. Shall we drop out? Or I’ll stop the fiddler.’
‘O no, no, I think I can finish. But although I look healthy enough I have never been so strong as I formerly4 was, since that long illness I had in the hospital at Scutari.’
‘And I knew nothing about it!’
‘You couldn’t, dear, as I didn’t write. What a fool I have been altogether!’ He gave a
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1 tune | |
n.调子;和谐,协调;v.调音,调节,调整 | |
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2 miller | |
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哭泣,啜泣( sob的过去式和过去分词 ); 哭诉,呜咽地说 | |
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v.急拉,抽动,痉挛,抽搐;n.扯,阵痛,痉挛 | |
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adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的 | |
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11 premises | |
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n.端点( extremity的名词复数 );尽头;手和足;极窘迫的境地 | |
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n.实践者,从事者;(医生或律师等)开业者 | |
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vi.累倒;昏倒;倒塌;塌陷 | |
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adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的 | |
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