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CHAPTER XIII LILLY: A GIRL OF THE STREETS
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ISTOOD one evening in Piccadilly, at the dinner hour, staring into the bright shop windows. London’s display of haberdashery and gold and silver ornaments1 interests me intensely. It was drizzling2 and I had no umbrella; yet that situation soon ceases to annoy one in England. I walked on into Regent Street and stopped under an arc light to watch the home-surging crowds—the clerks, men and women, the boys and girls.
The thought was with me as I walked in the rain, “Where shall I dine? How shall I do it?” I wandered through New Bond Street; and looking idly at the dark stores, as I came back along Piccadilly, I saw two girls, arm in arm, pass by. One of them looked over her shoulder at me and smiled. She was of medium size and simply dressed. She was pretty in the fresh English way, with large, too innocent eyes. The girls paused before a shop window and as I stopped beside them and looked at the girl who had smiled, she edged over toward me and I spoke3 to her.
“Wouldn’t you like to take the two of us?” she asked with that quaint4 odd accent of the Welsh. Her voice was soft and her eyes were as blue and weak in their force as any unsophisticated girl’s might well be.
“This girl isn’t hard and vulgar,” I said to myself. I suppose we all pride ourselves on knowing something of character in women. I thought I did.
“No,” I replied rather directly to her question.114 “Not to-night. But let’s you and I go somewhere for dinner.”
“Would you mind givin’ my friend a shillin’?” she asked.
“Not at all,” I replied. “There you are.”
It was a wet night, chill and dreary6, and on second thought I made it half-a-crown. The second girl went away—a girl with a thin white face—and I turned to my companion.
“Now,” I said, “what shall we do?” It was nearly eight o’clock and I was wondering where I could go with such a girl to dine. Her clothes, I perceived, were a
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n.装饰( ornament的名词复数 );点缀;装饰品;首饰v.装饰,点缀,美化( ornament的第三人称单数 ) | |
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下蒙蒙细雨,下毛毛雨( drizzle的现在分词 ) | |
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liaison
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innate
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hip
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sincerity
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quaintly
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banal
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speculative
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landlady
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不高兴地,绷着脸,忧郁地 | |
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boorishness
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extravagant
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pottery
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smacks
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掌掴(声)( smack的名词复数 ); 海洛因; (打的)一拳; 打巴掌 | |
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liaisons
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顾问,劝告者( adviser的名词复数 ); (指导大学新生学科问题等的)指导教授 | |
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liar
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transparent
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affected
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animation
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sordid
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radically
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sufficiently
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luxurious
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peculiar
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brazen
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philosophic
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vice
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(使)集合,聚集( congregate的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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solely
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prey
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disillusioned
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