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Chapter XVIII
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Almost immediately after the singing of the “Gypsy Trail,” Paula emerged from her seclusion1, and Graham found himself hard put, in the tower room, to keep resolutely2 to his work when all the morning he could hear snatches of song and opera from her wing, or laughter and scolding of dogs from the great patio4, or the continuous pulse for hours of the piano from the distant music room. But Graham, patterning after Dick, devoted5 his mornings to work, so that he rarely encountered Paula before lunch.
She made announcement that her spell of insomnia6 was over and that she was ripe for all gaieties and excursions Dick had to offer her. Further, she threatened, in case Dick grudged7 these personal diversions, to fill the house with guests and teach him what liveliness was. It was at this time that her Aunt Martha—Mrs. Tully— returned for a several days’ visit, and that Paula resumed the driving of Duddy and Fuddy in the high, one-seated Stude-baker trap. Duddy and Fuddy were spirited trotters, but Mrs. Tully, despite her elderliness and avoirdupois, was without timidity when Paula held the reins8.
As Mrs. Tully told Graham: “And that is a concession9 I make to no woman save Paula. She is the only woman I can trust myself to with horses. She has the horse-way about her. When she was a child she was wild over horses. It’s a wonder she didn’t become a circus rider.”
More, much more, Graham learned about Paula in various chats with her aunt. Of Philip Desten, Paula’s father, Mrs. Tully could never say enough. Her eldest10 brother, and older by many years, he had been her childhood prince. His ways had been big ways, princely ways—ways that to commoner folk had
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eldest
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ancestry
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vivacity
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prerogative
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anarchist
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adorning
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worthiest
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v.伸开四肢坐[躺]( sprawl的过去式和过去分词);蔓延;杂乱无序地拓展;四肢伸展坐着(或躺着) | |
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graceful
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sages
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grove
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mundane
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queried
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hitching
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