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CHAPTER XVI A CHRISTMAS CALL
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THE Christmas holidays were drawing near and Barfleur was making due preparations for the celebration of that event. He was a stickler1 for the proper observance of those things which have national significance and national or international feeling behind them. Whatever joy he might get out of such things, much or little, I am convinced that he was much more concerned lest some one should fail of an appropriate share of happiness than he was about anything else. I liked that in Barfleur. It touched me greatly, and made me feel at times as though I should like to pat him on the head.
During all my youth in Indiana and elsewhere I had been fed on that delightful2 picture, “Christmas in England,” concocted3 first, I believe (for American consumption, anyhow), by Washington Irving, and from him rehashed for magazines and newspaper purposes until it had come to be romance ad nauseum. The boar’s head carried in by the butler of Squire4 Bracebridge, the ancient peacock pie with the gorgeous tail feathers arranged at one end of the platter and the crested5 head at the other, the yule log, the mistletoe berries, and the Christmas choristers singing outside of windows and doors of echoing halls, had vaguely6 stood their ground and as such had rooted themselves in my mind as something connected with ancestral England. I did not exactly anticipate anything of this kind as being a part of present-day England, or of Barfleur’s simple country residence,149 but, nevertheless, I was in England, and he was making Christmas preparations of one kind or another, and my mind had a perfect right to ramble7 a little. I think most of all I anticipated another kind of toy from that to which we are accustomed in America.
So many things go to make up that very amiable8 feast of Christmas when it is successful that I can hardly think now of all that contributed to this one. There was Sir Scorp, of whom by now I had grown very fond, and who was coming here to spend the holidays. There was Gerard Barfleur, a cousin of Barfleur’s, a jolly, roystering
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n.证词;见证,证明 | |
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v.预示( herald的过去式和过去分词 );宣布(好或重要) | |
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n.亚麻布,亚麻线,亚麻制品;adj.亚麻布制的,亚麻的 | |
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adj.壮丽堂皇的;n.废话,空话 | |
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v.短促地尖叫( squeak的现在分词 );吱吱叫;告密;充当告密者 | |
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n.敬畏,惊惧;vt.使敬畏,使惊惧 | |
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n.熟悉,亲密,密切关系,亲昵的言行 | |
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adj.饮食过量的,饮食奢侈的v.纵容,宠,娇养( pamper的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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n.对虾,明虾( prawn的名词复数 ) | |
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n.小岛,岛 | |
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n.笼头,束缚;vt.抑制,约束;动怒 | |
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pony
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adj.装饰的;作装饰用的;n.装饰品;观赏植物 | |
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n.解释,说明,描述;艺术处理 | |
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license
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n.执照,许可证,特许;v.许可,特许 | |
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n.论文,演说;谈话;话语;vi.讲述,著述 | |
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