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CHAPTER VII THE FIERCE-EYED MAN
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The staff at the Lodge1 consisted in its entirety of one old maid-servant, a little deaf and very short-sighted, who combined the functions, as occasion demanded, of parlour-maid, cook and gardener. Notwithstanding these manifold duties, Valentine hardly ever left her kitchen-range, which was situated3 in an extension built on to the house and opening directly upon the street.
This was where I found her. She did not seem surprised at my return—nothing, for that matter, ever surprised or perturbed4 her—and I at once saw that she was still living outside the course of events and that she would be unable to tell me anything useful. I gathered, however, that my uncle and Bérangère had gone out half an hour earlier.
"Together?" I asked.
"Good gracious, no! The master came through the kitchen and said, 'I'm going to post a letter. Then I shall go to the Yard.' He left a bottle behind him, you know, one of those blue medicine-bottles which he uses for his experiments."
"Where did he leave it, Valentine?"
"Why, over there, on the dresser. He must have forgotten it when he put on his overcoat, for he never parts with those bottles of his."
"It's not there, Valentine."
"Now that's a funny thing! M. Dorgeroux hasn't been back, I know."
"And has no one else been?"
"No. Yes, there has, though; a gentleman, a gentleman who came for Mlle. Bérangère a little while after."
"And did you go to fetch her?"
"Yes."
"Then it must have been while you were away . . ."
"You don't mean that! Oh, how M. Dorgeroux will scold me!"
"But who is the gentleman?"
"Upon my word, I couldn't tell you. . . . My sight is so bad. . . ."
"Do you know him?"
"No, I didn't recognize his voice."
"And did they both go out, Bérangère and he?"
"Yes, they crossed the road . . . opposite."
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v.临时住宿,寄宿,寄存,容纳;n.传达室,小旅馆 | |
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细枝,嫩枝( twig的名词复数 ) | |
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dread
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cemetery
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trampled
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踩( trample的过去式和过去分词 ); 践踏; 无视; 侵犯 | |
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cistern
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chapel
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conjure
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miraculous
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precisely
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evoking
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产生,引起,唤起( evoke的现在分词 ) | |
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inexplicable
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phantoms
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awakening
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misty
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impeded
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阻碍,妨碍,阻止( impede的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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hesitation
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evoked
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atrocity
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premises
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concealed
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interval
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clump
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(正式的)调查( investigation的名词复数 ); 侦查; 科学研究; 学术研究 | |
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nay
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underneath
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touching
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bent
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supreme
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killing
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fabulous
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stunned
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tottering
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