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CHAPTER X THE CROWD SEES
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Théodore Massignac was installed at the box-office! Théodore Massignac, when a dispute of any kind occurred, left his desk and hastened to settle it! Théodore Massignac walked up and down, examining the tickets, showing people to their places, speaking a pleasant word here, giving a masterful order there and doing all these things with his everlasting1 smile and his obsequious2 graciousness.
Of embarrassment3 not the slightest sign. Everybody knew that Théodore Massignac was the fellow with the broad face and the wide-cleft mouth who was attracting the general attention. And everybody was fully5 aware that Théodore Massignac was the man of straw who had carried out the whole business and made away with Noël Dorgeroux. But nothing interfered6 with Théodore Massignac's jovial7 mood: not the sneers8, nor the apparent hostility9 of the public, nor the more or less discreet10 supervision11 of the detectives attached to his person.
He had even had the effrontery12 to paste on boardings, to the right and left of the entrance, a pair of great posters representing Noël Dorgeroux's handsome face, with its grave and candid14 features!
These posters gave rise to a brief
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everlasting
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obsequious
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embarrassment
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acting
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interfered
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sneers
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讥笑的表情(言语)( sneer的名词复数 ) | |
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hostility
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supervision
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effrontery
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din
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candid
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altercation
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fixed
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outrage
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feigned
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amazement
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homage
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accomplice
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infamy
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paltry
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astounding
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immortality
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jeering
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clenching
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villain
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hush
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brute
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forth
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torrent
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artistic
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celebrities
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detailed
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beholding
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behold
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hoax
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reassuring
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refunded
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remarkable
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contractors
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lavishly
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spacious
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masonry
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spiked
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mesh
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standing
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canopy
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gaudy
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irritability
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caustic
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peevish
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worthy
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shuddered
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v.战栗( shudder的过去式和过去分词 );发抖;(机器、车辆等)突然震动;颤动 | |
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peril
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shrug
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v.耸肩(表示怀疑、冷漠、不知等) | |
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bantering
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geniality
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n.和蔼,诚恳;愉快 | |
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hisses
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mingled
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混合,混入( mingle的过去式和过去分词 ); 混进,与…交往[联系] | |
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enthusiasts
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fortified
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uproar
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deafening
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solely
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obedience
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ardently
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loathing
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vengeance
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collaborator
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frantically
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malignant
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random
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