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CHAPTER VI THE RESTAURANT IN ANTIOCH STREET
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I was working late at the Temple next day, and it was nearly seven before I got up to go home. Macgillivray had telephoned to me in the afternoon saying he wanted to see me, and suggesting dinner at the Club, and I had told him I should come straight there from my Chambers1. But just after six he had rung me up again and proposed another meeting place.
"I've got some very important news for you, and want to be quiet. There's a little place where I sometimes dine—Rapaccini's, in Antioch Street. I'll meet you there at half-past seven."
I agreed, and sent a message to Chapman at the flat, telling him I would be out to dinner. It was a Wednesday night, so the House rose early. He asked me where I was dining, and I told him, but I did not mention with whom. His voice sounded very cross, for he hated a lonely meal.
It was a hot, still night, and I had had a heavy day in Court, so heavy that my private anxieties had almost slipped from my mind. I walked along the Embankment, and up Regent Street towards Oxford3 Circus. Antioch Street, as I had learned from the Directory, was in the area between Langham Place and Tottenham Court Road. I wondered vaguely4 why Macgillivray should have chosen such an out-of-the-way spot, but I knew him for a man of many whims5.
The street, when I found it, turned out to be a respectable little place, boarding-houses and architects' offices, with a few antiquity6 shops and a picture-cleaner's. The restaurant took some finding, for it was one of those discreet7 establishments, common enough in France, where no edibles8 are displayed in the British fashion, and muslin half-curtains deck the windows. Only the doormat, lettered with the proprietor9's name, remained to guide the hungry.
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chambers
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n.房间( chamber的名词复数 );(议会的)议院;卧室;会议厅 | |
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n.房间,寝室;会议厅;议院;会所 | |
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虚妄,禅病 | |
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可以吃的,可食用的( edible的名词复数 ); 食物 | |
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演说(discourse的现在分词形式) | |
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grill
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curiously
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inviting
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smelt
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stuffy
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shutters
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百叶窗( shutter的名词复数 ); (照相机的)快门 | |
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stifle
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alluringly
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诱人地,妩媚地 | |
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champagne
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n.香槟酒;微黄色 | |
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cork
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stuffiness
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hoax
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counterfeit
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preposterous
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deduction
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tainted
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appreciation
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flicker
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pointed
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gulp
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scrap
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smuggled
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wreak
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vengeance
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labyrinths
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pals
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plaintively
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peremptory
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gasped
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outrage
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hurled
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bent
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stiffening
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outfit
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wreckage
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slumbering
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微睡,睡眠(slumber的现在分词形式) | |
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descended
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hideous
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parquet
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scramble
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inquiry
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twilight
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butted
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deliberately
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abjectly
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