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CHAPTER 27
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Desire has trimmed the sails, and Circumstance
Brings but the breeze to fill them.
While Grandcourt on his beautiful black Yarico, the groom1 behind him on Criterion, was taking the pleasant ride from Diplow to Offendene, Gwendolen was seated before the mirror while her mother gathered up the lengthy2 mass of light-brown hair which she had been carefully brushing.
“Only gather it up easily and make a coil, mamma,” said Gwendolen.
“Let me bring you some ear-rings, Gwen,” said Mrs. Davilow, when the hair was adjusted, and they were both looking at the reflection in the glass. It was impossible for them not to notice that the eyes looked brighter than they had done of late, that there seemed to be a shadow lifted from the face, leaving all the lines once more in their placid4 youthfulness. The mother drew some inference that made her voice rather cheerful. “You do want your earrings5?”
“No, mamma; I shall not wear any ornaments6, and I shall put on my black silk. Black is the only wear when one is going to refuse an offer,” said Gwendolen, with one of her old smiles at her mother, while she rose to throw off her dressing-gown.
“Suppose the offer is not made after all,” said Mrs. Davilow, not without a sly intention.
“Then that will be because I refuse it beforehand,” said Gwendolen. “It comes to the same thing.”
There was a proud little toss of the head as she said this; and when she walked down-stairs in her long black robes, there was just that firm poise7 of head and elasticity8 of form which had lately been missing, as in a parched9 plant. Her mother thought, “She is quite herself again. It must be pleasure in his coming. Can her mind be really made up against him?”
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earrings
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maidenly
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jealousy
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calamity
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offense
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mischief
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inclination
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embarrassment
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defiance
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n.挑战,挑衅,蔑视,违抗 | |
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importune
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astonishment
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myriad
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piquant
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repugnance
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