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CHAPTER IX THE MAN WHO EMERGED FROM THE DARKNESS
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"When the time comes," they had said, "some one will emerge from the darkness. When the time comes, some one will remove the mask from his face."
That face now beamed expansively before me. That some one, who was about to play the game of the two accomplices2, was Bérangère's father. And the same question continued to suggest itself, each time more painfully than the last:
"What had been Bérangère's part in the horrible tragedy?"
There was a long, heavy silence between us. I began to stride across the room and stopped near the chimney, where a dying fire was smouldering. Thence I could see Massignac in a mirror, without his perceiving it; and his face, in repose3, surprised me by a gloomy expression which was not unknown to me. I had probably seen some photograph of him in Bérangère's possession.
"It's curious," I said, "that your daughter should not have written to you."
I had turned round very briskly; nevertheless he had had time to expand his mouth and to resume his smile:
"Alas," he said, "the dear child hardly ever wrote to me and cared little about her poor daddy. I, on the other hand, am very fond of her. A daughter's always a daughter, you know. So you can imagine how I jumped for joy when I read in the papers that she had come into money. I should at last be able to devote myself to her and to devote all my strength and all my energy to the great and wonderful task of defending her interests and her fortune."
He spoke4 in a honeyed voice and assumed a false and unctuous5 air which exasperated6 me. I questioned him:
"Why, quite simply," he replied, "by continuing Noël Dorgeroux's work."
"In other words?"
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从犯,帮凶,同谋( accomplice的名词复数 ) | |
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proprietor
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publicity
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论述,详细讲解( expound的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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hesitation
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motive
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opposition
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(wide area network)广域网 | |
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n.版画;雕刻(作品);雕刻艺术;镌版术v.在(硬物)上雕刻(字,画等)( engrave的现在分词 );将某事物深深印在(记忆或头脑中) | |
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大头钉( tack的名词复数 ); 平头钉; 航向; 方法 | |
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abridged
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削减的,删节的 | |
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啜泣(声),呜咽(声)( sob的名词复数 ) | |
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passionately
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distress
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obstinacy
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brutal
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adversary
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