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CHAPTER XIX
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How-ha was only an Indian woman, bred of a long line of fish-eating, meat-rending carnivores, and her ethics1 were as crude and simple as her blood. But long contact with the whites had given her an insight into their way of looking at things, and though she grunted2 contemptuously in her secret soul, she none the less understood their way perfectly3. Ten years previous she had cooked for Jacob Welse, and served him in one fashion or another ever since; and when on a dreary4 January morning she opened the front door in response to the deep-tongued knocker, even her stolid5 presence was shaken as she recognized the visitor. Not that the average man or woman would have so recognized. But How-ha's faculties6 of observing and remembering details had been developed in a hard school where death dealt his blow to the lax and life saluted7 the vigilant8.
How-ha looked up and down the woman who stood before her. Through the heavy veil she could barely distinguish the flash of the eyes, while the hood9 of the parka effectually concealed10 the hair, and the parka proper the particular outlines of the body. But How-ha paused and looked again. There was something familiar in the vague general outline. She quested back to the shrouded11 head again, and knew the unmistakable poise12
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v.隐瞒( shroud的过去式和过去分词 );保密 | |
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vt./vi. 平衡,保持平衡;n.泰然自若,自信 | |
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disorder
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怒视,生气地皱眉( scowl的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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wholesomeness
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v.遍及,弥漫( pervade的现在分词 ) | |
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鼻孔( nostril的名词复数 ) | |
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softening
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astonishment
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adj.惊人的,奇妙的;异常的;巨大的;庞大的 | |
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alluring
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recollecting
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shack
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jade
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抛( sling的第三人称单数 ); 吊挂; 遣送; 押往 | |
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轻声地笑( chuckle的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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hearty
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