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CHAPTER IV
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A week later Owen Gereth came down to inform his mother that he had settled with Mona Brigstock; but it was not at all a joy to Fleda, conscious how much to himself it would be a surprise, that he should find her still in the house. That dreadful scene before breakfast had made her position false and odious2; it had been followed, after they were left alone, by a scene of her own making with her extravagant3 friend. She notified Mrs. Gereth of her instant departure: she couldn't possibly remain after being offered to Owen, that way, before her very face, as his mother's candidate for the honor of his hand. That was all he could have seen in such an outbreak and in the indecency of her standing4 there to enjoy it. Fleda had on the prior occasion dashed out of the room by the shortest course and in her confusion had fallen upon Mona in the garden. She had taken an aimless turn with her, and they had had some talk, rendered at first difficult and almost disagreeable by Mona's apparent suspicion that she had been sent out to spy, as Mrs. Gereth had tried to spy, into her opinions. Fleda was sagacious enough to treat these opinions as a mystery almost awful; which had an effect so much more than reassuring5 that at the end of five minutes the young lady from Waterbath suddenly and perversely6 said: "Why has she never had a winter garden thrown out? If ever I have a place of my own I mean to have one." Fleda, dismayed, could see the thing—something glazed7 and piped, on iron pillars, with untidy plants and cane8 sofas; a shiny excrescence on the noble face of Poynton. She remembered at Waterbath a conservatory9 where she had caught a bad cold in the company of a stuffed cockatoo fastened to a tropical bough
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bough
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grandeur
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porcelain
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irony
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intercepted
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拦截( intercept的过去式和过去分词 ); 截住; 截击; 拦阻 | |
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romping
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offense
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supremacy
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motive
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contention
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pensively
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retired
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chamber
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n.房间,寝室;会议厅;议院;会所 | |
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fatuity
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resentment
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disinterested
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attachment
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luncheon
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apprehension
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constrained
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simplicity
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tact
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alienation
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allay
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v.消除,减轻(恐惧、怀疑等) | |
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complicating
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intercourse
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exquisite
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parasitical
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loathe
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barbarian
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appreciative
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friendliness
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concussion
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弹回( rebound的过去式和过去分词 ); 反弹; 产生反作用; 未能奏效 | |
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enjoyment
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cogently
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maternal
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peculiar
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防止,避免( avert的过去式和过去分词 ); 转移 | |
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