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She had not again, for weeks, had Mrs. Assingham so effectually in presence as on the afternoon of that lady’s return from the Easter party at Matcham; but the intermission was made up as soon as the date of the migration1 to Fawns2 — that of the more or less simultaneous adjournment3 of the two houses — began to be discussed. It had struck her, promptly4, that this renewal5, with an old friend, of the old terms she had talked of with her father, was the one opening, for her spirit, that wouldn’t too much advertise or betray her. Even her father, who had always, as he would have said, “believed in” their ancient ally, wouldn’t necessarily suspect her of invoking6 Fanny’s aid toward any special inquiry7 — and least of all if Fanny would only act as Fanny so easily might. Maggie’s measure of Fanny’s ease would have been agitating8 to Mrs. Assingham had it been all at once revealed to her — as, for that matter, it was soon destined9 to become even on a comparatively graduated showing. Our young woman’s idea, in particular, was that her safety, her escape from being herself suspected of suspicion, would proceed from this friend’s power to cover, to protect and, as might be, even showily to represent her — represent, that is, her relation to the form of the life they were all actually leading. This would doubtless be, as people said, a large order; but that Mrs. Assingham existed, substantially, or could somehow be made prevailingly to exist, for her private benefit, was the finest flower Maggie had plucked from among the suggestions sown, like abundant seed, on the occasion of the entertainment offered in Portland Place to the Matcham company. Mrs. Assingham, that night,

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n.迁移,移居,(鸟类等的)迁徙 | |
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n.(未满一岁的)幼鹿( fawn的名词复数 );浅黄褐色;乞怜者;奉承者v.(尤指狗等)跳过来往人身上蹭以示亲热( fawn的第三人称单数 );巴结;讨好 | |
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休会; 延期; 休会期; 休庭期 | |
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adj.(契约)延期,续订,更新,复活,重来 | |
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undo
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scruple
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pang
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agitations
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insistence
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caressing
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mischievous
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expressive
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climax
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adventurous
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demonstration
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ambiguity
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chasm
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profusion
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inconvenient
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hideous
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persistence
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audacity
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scant
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irrelevance
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luncheon
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perverse
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conspicuously
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awfully
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adv.可怕地,非常地,极端地 | |
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invoke
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v.求助于(神、法律);恳求,乞求 | |
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considerably
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sincerity
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