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CHAPTER XII. A WORD AT THE HARBOUR-SIDE.
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The next Sunday I was fool enough to go to church, for Doctor Blair was announced to preach the sermon. Now I knew very well what treatment I should get, and that it takes a stout1 fellow to front a conspiracy2 of scorn. But I had got new courage from my travels, so I put on my best suit of murrey-coloured cloth, my stockings of cherry silk, the gold buckles3 which had been my father's, my silk-embroidered waistcoat, freshly-ironed ruffles4, and a new hat which had cost forty shillings in London town. I wore my own hair, for I never saw the sense of a wig5 save for a bald man, but I had it deftly6 tied. I would have cut a great figure had there not been my bronzed and rugged7 face to give the lie to my finery.
It was a day of blistering8 heat. The river lay still as a lagoon9, and the dusty red roads of the town blazed like a furnace. Before I had got to the church door I was in a great sweat, and stopped in the porch to fan myself. Inside 'twas cool enough, with a pleasant smell from the cedar10 pews, but there was such a press of a congregation that many were left standing11. I had a good place just below the choir12, where I saw the Governor's carved chair, with the Governor's self before it on his kneeling-cushion making
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conspiracy
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| 褶裥花边( ruffle的名词复数 ) | |
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| adj.酷热的;猛烈的;使起疱的;可恶的v.起水疱;起气泡;使受暴晒n.[涂料] 起泡 | |
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dwelling
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dwellings
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discourse
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| 责难或指责( rebuke的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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benediction
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| n.祝福;恩赐 | |
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| n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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fragrant
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admiration
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lodging
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| n.寄宿,住所;(大学生的)校外宿舍 | |
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gentry
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embroil
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truculent
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scourges
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| 带来灾难的人或东西,祸害( scourge的名词复数 ); 鞭子 | |
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cravat
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perverse
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puffed
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tribulations
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strife
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