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CHAPTER II
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I saw more than a little of Jerry McDermott during the spring and summer that I stayed in Chicago, haunting managers' offices in my winter's suit and a fixed1 determination not to let any of them suspect that I knew I couldn't, for the moment, act at all. Where the gift had gone I did not know, nor when, in some desperate encounter with the chance of an engagement, I attempted to draw about me the tattered2 remnants of my old facility, had I any notion what would bring it back again.
Effie wrote me to come home for the hot weather, but though I regretted afterward3 not having done so I could not make up my mind to leave Chicago. It seemed to me then that the deadly quality of Taylorville lay waiting like a trap, which in my present benumbed condition might close on me if I put myself in the way of it. I thought that if I got out of reach of the flare4 of light from the theatre doors, of the smell of back scenes and the florid grip of the posters, that I should never in this world win back to them. A summer in Taylorville would have saved me money, would have rested and perhaps restored the balance of my powers, but the inward monitor of which I was the mere5 shell and surface, clutched upon the city with the grip of desperation. I hung upon whatever slight attachments6 to the theatre my circumstances afforded, like the drowned upon a rope, and waited for the resuscitating7 touch. Somewhere beyond me I was aware of succour; not knowing from whence it should come, I grasped at everything within reach and was buffeted8 and torn about in the eddy9 of reverses.
What more even than his need of me, drove me back on Gerald McDermott, was the certainty that he was
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perfectly
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incompetence
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bereaved
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interfere
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prerogative
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inflated
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conjectures
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smoothly
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slanting
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carmine
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boding
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playwright
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exclusion
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stimulation
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reassuring
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psychology
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promptly
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tormented
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friendliness
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culpability
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armory
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transpired
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subscribes
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v.捐助( subscribe的第三人称单数 );签署,题词;订阅;同意 | |
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discreetly
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exhaustion
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drawn
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reciprocated
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intimacy
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stumping
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pang
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rehearsals
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dreary
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