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BOOK FOURTH VII
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It had all gone so fast after this that Milly uttered but the truth nearest to hand in saying to the gentleman on her right—who was, by the same token, the gentleman on her hostess's left—that she scarce even then knew where she was: the words marking her first full sense of a situation really romantic. They were already dining, she and her friend, at Lancaster Gate, and surrounded, as it seemed to her, with every English accessory; though her consciousness of Mrs. Lowder's existence, and still more of her remarkable1 identity, had been of so recent and so sudden a birth. Susie, as she was apt to call her companion for a lighter2 change, had only had to wave a neat little wand for the fairy-tale to begin at once; in consequence of which Susie now glittered—for, with Mrs. Stringham's new sense of success, it came to that—in the character of a fairy godmother. Milly had almost insisted on dressing3 her, for the present occasion, as one; and it was no fault of the girl's if the good lady had not now appeared in a peaked hat, a short petticoat and diamond shoe-buckles, brandishing4 the magic crutch5. The good lady, in truth, bore herself not less contentedly6 than if these insignia had marked her work; and Milly's observation to Lord Mark had just been, doubtless, the result of such a light exchange of looks with her as even the great length of the table had not baffled. There were twenty persons between them, but this sustained passage was the sharpest sequel yet to that other comparison of views during the pause on the Swiss pass. It almost appeared to Milly that their fortune had been unduly7 precipitated—as if, properly, they were in the position of having ventured on a small joke and found the answer out of proportion grave. She could not at this moment, for instance, have said whether, with her quickened perceptions, she were more enlivened or oppressed; and the case might in fact have been serious had she not, by good fortune, from the moment the picture
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precisely
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simplicity
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distinguished
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genial
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shamefully
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sufficiently
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affected
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brag
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pertinent
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sinister
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fidelity
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n.忠诚,忠实;精确 | |
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considerably
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lucid
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serenely
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abide
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inevitability
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thoroughly
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submission
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impaired
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intervals
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apparently
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emergence
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compartment
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doom
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phenomena
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improvised
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briefly
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judgment
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disinterested
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