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Where’s my Boy in Breeches?” Dick shouted, stamping with jingling1 spurs through the Big House in quest of its Little Lady.
He came to the door that gave entrance to her long wing. It was a door without a knob, a huge panel of wood in a wood-paneled wall. But Dick shared the secret of the hidden spring with his wife, pressed the spring, and the door swung wide.
“Where’s my Boy in Breeches?” he called and stamped down the length of her quarters.
A glance into the bathroom, with its sunken Roman bath and descending2 marble steps, was fruitless, as were the glances he sent into Paula’s wardrobe room and dressing3 room. He passed the short, broad stairway that led to her empty window-seat divan4 in what she called her Juliet Tower, and thrilled at sight of an orderly disarray5 of filmy, pretty, lacy woman’s things that he knew she had spread out for her own sensuous6 delight of contemplation. He fetched up for a moment at a drawing easel, his reiterant cry checked on his lips, and threw a laugh of recognition and appreciation7 at the sketch8, just outlined, of an awkward, big-boned, knobby, weanling colt caught in the act of madly whinneying for its mother.
“Where’s my Boy in Breeches?” he shouted before him, out to the sleeping porch; and found only a demure9, brow-troubled Chinese woman of thirty, who smiled self-effacing embarrassment10 into his eyes.
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appreciation
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embarrassment
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solicitous
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contraction
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verge
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schooner
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stammered
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ranch
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limousine
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precisely
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droop
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chestnut
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fumble
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vi.笨拙地用手摸、弄、接等,摸索 | |
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correlation
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chili
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steamships
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trout
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bass
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catfish
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labor
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灌溉( irrigate的第三人称单数 ); 冲洗(伤口) | |
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prodigious
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dangling
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悬吊着( dangle的现在分词 ); 摆动不定; 用某事物诱惑…; 吊胃口 | |
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tangled
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peril
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swoop
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gasp
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quenched
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解(渴)( quench的过去式和过去分词 ); 终止(某事物); (用水)扑灭(火焰等); 将(热物体)放入水中急速冷却 | |
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darting
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jaws
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