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CHAPTER XVI WHERE LIPS UNITE
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We have but to read the newspapers of the period, to realize that the excitement caused by the Meudon pictures reached its culminating point as the result of Benjamin Prévotelle's essay. I have four of those newspapers, dated the following day, on my table as I write. Not one of them contains throughout its eight pages a single line that does not refer to what at once became known as the Splendid Theory.
For the rest, the chorus of approval and enthusiasm was general, or very nearly so. There were barely a few cries of vehement1 protest uttered by experts who felt exasperated2 by the boldness of the essay even more than by the gaps occurring in it. The great mass of the public saw in all this not a theory but a fact and accepted it as such with the faith of true believers confronted with the divine truth. Every one contributed his own proof as yet one more stone added to the edifice3. The objections, however strong they might be—and they were set forth4 without compromise—seemed temporary and capable of being removed by closer study and a more careful confirmation5 of the phenomena6.
And it is with this conclusion, Benjamin Prévotelle's own conclusion, that all the articles, all the interviews and all the letters that appeared end. The measures recommended by Benjamin Prévotelle were loudly called for. Action must be taken without delay and a series of experiments must be made in the Meudon amphitheatre.
Amid this effervescence, the kidnapping of Massignac went for little. The man Massignac had disappeared? There was nothing to enable one to tell who had carried him off or where he was confined? Very well. It made very little difference. As Benjamin Prévotelle said, the opportunity was too good to miss. The doors of the Yard had been sealed on the first morning. What were we waiting for? Why not begin the experiments at once?
As for me, I did not breathe a word of my Bougival adventure, in the constant fear of
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adj.感情强烈的;热烈的;(人)有强烈感情的 | |
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contented
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amalgam
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mere
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standing
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delightful
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delightfully
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climax
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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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disappearance
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negotiation
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miraculous
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audacity
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subterfuge
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effrontery
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alteration
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everlasting
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invective
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affected
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backwards
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depict
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languor
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possessed
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hesitation
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beholding
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fervently
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adv.热烈地,热情地,强烈地 | |
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underneath
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shrouded
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zealous
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exalted
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intoxication
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caress
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squatting
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prehistoric
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fresco
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potent
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brutal
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serene
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justification
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rapture
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ecstasy
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enchantment
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ingenuousness
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perfidy
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distress
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humility
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passionate
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