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The acquaintance thus oddly reopened proceeded apace. She often looked out to get a few words with him, by night or by day. Her sorrow was that she could not accompany her one old friend on foot a little way, and talk more freely than she could do while he paused before the house. One night, at the beginning of June, when she was again on the watch after an absence of some days from the window, he entered the gate and said softly, ‘Now, wouldn’t some air do you good? I’ve only half a load this morning. Why not ride up to Covent Garden with me? There’s a nice seat on the cabbages, where I’ve spread a sack. You can be home again in a cab before anybody is up.’
She refused at first, and then, trembling with excitement, hastily finished her dressing1, and wrapped herself up in cloak and veil, afterwards sidling downstairs by the aid of the handrail, in a way she could adopt on an emergency. When she had opened the door she found Sam on the step, and he lifted her bodily on his strong arm across the little forecourt into his vehicle. Not a soul was visible or audible in the infinite length of the straight, flat highway, with its ever-waiting lamps converging2 to points in each direction. The air was fresh as country air at this hour, and the stars shone, except to the north-eastward, where there was a whitish light—the dawn. Sam carefully placed her in the seat, and drove on.
They talked as they had talked in old days, Sam pulling himself up now and then, when he thought himself too familiar. More than once she said with misgiving3 that she wondered if she ought to have indulged in the freak. ‘But I am so lonely in my house,’ she added, ‘and this makes me so happy!’
‘You must come again, dear Mrs. Twycott. There is no time o’ day for taking the air like this.’
It grew lighter5 and lighter. The sparrows became busy in the streets, and the city waxed denser6 around them. When they approached the river it was day, and on the bridge they
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1 dressing | |
n.(食物)调料;包扎伤口的用品,敷料 | |
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adj.收敛[缩]的,会聚的,趋同的v.(线条、运动的物体等)会于一点( converge的现在分词 );(趋于)相似或相同;人或车辆汇集;聚集 | |
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n.疑虑,担忧,害怕 | |
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4 akin | |
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5 lighter | |
n.打火机,点火器;驳船;v.用驳船运送;light的比较级 | |
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6 denser | |
adj. 不易看透的, 密集的, 浓厚的, 愚钝的 | |
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7 beheld | |
v.看,注视( behold的过去式和过去分词 );瞧;看呀;(叙述中用于引出某人意外的出现)哎哟 | |
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同意,赞成( assent的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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13 lameness | |
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14 miserable | |
adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的 | |
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15 entirely | |
ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地 | |
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16 dignified | |
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17 blithe | |
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18 Oxford | |
n.牛津(英国城市) | |
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19 casually | |
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20 broach | |
v.开瓶,提出(题目) | |
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21 promenaded | |
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22 lurid | |
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23 dwarf | |
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24 jumbled | |
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25 luxurious | |
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26 luncheons | |
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27 suburban | |
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28 fixed | |
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30 boor | |
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31 churl | |
n.吝啬之人;粗鄙之人 | |
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32 miserably | |
adv.痛苦地;悲惨地;糟糕地;极度地 | |
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33 worthy | |
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34 broached | |
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35 wed | |
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36 repugnance | |
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37 peremptoriness | |
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38 ordained | |
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39 encumbrance | |
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40 obliterate | |
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41 manly | |
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42 persistent | |
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44 soften | |
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45 sufficiently | |
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46 ousted | |
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47 idyllic | |
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48 murmur | |
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49 plaintively | |
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50 middle-aged | |
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51 proprietor | |
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52 attire | |
v.穿衣,装扮[同]array;n.衣着;盛装 | |
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