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THE HORSE DEALER’S DAUGHTER
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“Well, Mabel, and what are you going to do with yourself?” asked Joe, with foolish flippancy1. He felt quite safe himself. Without listening for an answer, he turned aside, worked a grain of tobacco to the tip of his tongue, and spat2 it out. He did not care about anything, since he felt safe himself.
The three brothers and the sister sat round the desolate3 breakfast table, attempting some sort of desultory4 consultation5. The morning’s post had given the final tap to the family fortunes, and all was over. The dreary6 dining-room itself, with its heavy mahogany furniture, looked as if it were waiting to be done away with.
But the consultation amounted to nothing. There was a strange air of ineffectuality about the three men, as they sprawled7 at table, smoking and reflecting vaguely8 on their own condition. The girl was alone, a rather short, sullen9-looking young woman of twenty-seven. She did not share the same life as her brothers. She would have been good-looking, save for the impassive fixity of her face, “bull-dog”, as her brothers called it.
There was a confused tramping of horses’ feet outside. The three men all sprawled round in their chairs to watch. Beyond the dark holly10-bushes that separated the strip of lawn from the highroad, they could see a cavalcade11 of shire horses swinging out of their own yard, being taken for exercise. This was the last time. These were the last horses that would go through their hands. The young men watched with critical,
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steward
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scraps
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boisterously
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sarcastically
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averted
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防止,避免( avert的过去式和过去分词 ); 转移 | |
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perfectly
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clenching
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antagonism
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grimace
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bray
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dealer
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foul
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brutally
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drudgery
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