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CHAPTER II—PICKING UP MISS KIMMEENS
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The day was by this time waning1, when the gate again opened, and, with the brilliant golden light that streamed from the declining sun and touched the very bars of the sooty creature’s den2, there passed in a little child; a little girl with beautiful bright hair. She wore a plain straw hat, had a door-key in her hand, and tripped towards Mr. Traveller as if she were pleased to see him and were going to repose3 some childish confidence in him, when she caught sight of the figure behind the bars, and started back in terror.
“Don’t be alarmed, darling!” said Mr. Traveller, taking her by the hand.
“Oh, but I don’t like it!” urged the shrinking child; “it’s dreadful.”
“Well! I don’t like it either,” said Mr. Traveller.
“Who has put it there?” asked the little girl. “Does it bite?”
“No,—only barks. But can’t you make up your mind to see it, my dear?” For she was covering her eyes.
“O no no no!” returned the child. “I cannot bear to look at it!”
Mr. Traveller turned his head towards his friend in there, as much as to ask him how he liked that instance of his success, and then took the child out at the still open gate, and stood talking to her for some half an hour in the mellow5 sunlight. At length he returned, encouraging her as she held his arm with both her hands; and laying his protecting hand upon her head and smoothing her pretty hair, he addressed his friend behind the bars as follows:
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Miss Pupford’s establishment for six young ladies of tender years, is an establishment of a compact nature, an establishment in miniature, quite a pocket establishment. Miss Pupford, Miss Pupford’s assistant with the Parisian accent, Miss Pupford’s cook, and Miss Pupford’s housemaid, complete what Miss Pupford calls the educational and domestic staff of her Lilliputian College.
Miss Pupford is one of the most amiable
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1 waning | |
adj.(月亮)渐亏的,逐渐减弱或变小的n.月亏v.衰落( wane的现在分词 );(月)亏;变小;变暗淡 | |
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n.兽穴;秘密地方;安静的小房间,私室 | |
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6 amiable | |
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7 conversed | |
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14 derangement | |
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15 audacity | |
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16 mittens | |
不分指手套 | |
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少许( dab的名词复数 ); 是…能手; 做某事很在行; 在某方面技术熟练 | |
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19 perfectly | |
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20 Christian | |
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21 waddling | |
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22 scuttling | |
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26 offender | |
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27 chubby | |
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28 capering | |
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29 promenade | |
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30 meek | |
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31 distinguished | |
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32 diminutive | |
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33 admiration | |
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34 entirely | |
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36 milkiest | |
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37 quarried | |
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38 likeness | |
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39 placid | |
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40 perplexed | |
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41 ruminating | |
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44 nuptials | |
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45 conceal | |
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46 melancholy | |
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49 bonnet | |
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50 entreaty | |
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51 deign | |
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52 delightfully | |
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53 delightful | |
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54 ushered | |
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55 behold | |
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56 aged | |
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57 pious | |
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58 apron | |
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59 despondent | |
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62 alacrity | |
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63 unwilling | |
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64 sanguine | |
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65 festive | |
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66 fleeting | |
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67 wilderness | |
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68 reverberating | |
回响,回荡( reverberate的现在分词 ); 使反响,使回荡,使反射 | |
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70 inspection | |
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71 infinitely | |
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72 emulative | |
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73 lame | |
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74 liking | |
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75 furtive | |
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77 lurking | |
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80 swelling | |
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81 slovenly | |
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82 wrought | |
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84 widower | |
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85 conceited | |
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86 sobbed | |
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88 attachment | |
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90 pretence | |
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93 hideous | |
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94 musing | |
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95 envious | |
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96 professed | |
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98 unnatural | |
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99 solitude | |
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101 bestow | |
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