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CHAPTER III
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They went at last, the wiseheads, down to Poynton, where the palpitating girl had the full revelation. "Now do you know how I feel?" Mrs. Gereth asked when in the wonderful hall, three minutes after their arrival, her pretty associate dropped on a seat with a soft gasp1 and a roll of dilated2 eyes. The answer came clearly enough, and in the rapture3 of that first walk through the house Fleda took a prodigious4 span. She perfectly5 understood how Mrs. Gereth felt—she had understood but meagrely before; and the two women embraced with tears over the tightening6 of their bond—tears which on the younger one's part were the natural and usual sign of her submission7 to perfect beauty. It was not the first time she had cried for the joy of admiration8, but it was the first time the mistress of Poynton, often as she had shown her house, had been present at such an exhibition. She exulted9 in it; it quickened her own tears; she assured her companion that such an occasion made the poor old place fresh to her again and more precious than ever. Yes, nobody had ever, that way, felt what she had achieved: people were so grossly ignorant, and everybody, even the knowing ones, as they thought themselves, more or less dense10. What Mrs. Gereth had achieved was indeed an exquisite11 work; and in such an art of the treasure-hunter, in selection and comparison refined to that point, there was an element of creation, of personality. She had commended Fleda's
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submission
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satiety
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initiation
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长条形景色( vista的名词复数 ); 回顾; 展望; (未来可能发生的)一系列情景 | |
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brasses
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搪瓷( enamel的名词复数 ); 珐琅; 釉药; 瓷漆 | |
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arrogance
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compassion
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consistency
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sincerity
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absurdity
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maniacal
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disposition
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humiliated
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delicacy
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luncheon
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profusely
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innocence
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levity
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entice
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beads
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plunge
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confession
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contrived
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brutally
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hatred
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incurred
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[医]招致的,遭受的; incur的过去式 | |
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effusive
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belligerently
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effusiveness
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twilight
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determined
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trophy
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kindly
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jewelry
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disingenuously
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inmate
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faltered
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repose
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hypocrisy
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virtue
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