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Now that the weather had cleared, Miss Minton was dressing1 Betty pre-paratory to taking her out for a walk. They were going down to the townto buy a celluloid duck to sail in Betty’s bath.
Betty was very excited and capered2 so violently that it was extremelydifficult to insert her arms into her woolly pullover. The two set off to-gether, Betty chattering3 violently: “Byaduck. Byaduck. For Bettibarf. ForBettibarf,” and deriving5 great pleasure from a ceaseless reiteration6 ofthese important facts.
Two matches, left carelessly crossed on the marble table in the hall, in-formed Tuppence that Mr. Meadowes was spending the afternoon on thetrail of Mrs. Perenna. Tuppence betook herself to the drawing-room andthe company of Mr. and Mrs. Cayley.
Mr. Cayley was in a fretful mood. He had come to Leahampton, he ex-plained, for absolute rest and quiet, and what quiet could there be with achild in the house? All day long it went on, screaming and running about,jumping up and down on the floors—
His wife murmured pacifically that Betty was really a dear little mite,but the remark met with no favour.
“No doubt, no doubt,” said Mr. Cayley, wriggling7 his long neck. “But hermother should keep her quiet. There are other people to consider. Inval-ids, people whose nerves need repose8.”
Tuppence said: “It’s not easy to keep a child of that age quiet. It’s notnatural — there would be something wrong with the child if she wasquiet.”
Mr. Cayley gobbled angrily.
“Nonsense—nonsense—this foolish modern spirit. Letting children doexactly as they please. A child should be made to sit down quietly and—and nurse a doll—or read, or something.”
“She’s not three yet,” said Tuppence, smiling. “You can hardly expect herto be able to read.”
“Well, something must be done about it. I shall speak to Mrs. Perenna.
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v.跳跃,雀跃( caper的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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n. (机器振动发出的)咔嗒声,(鸟等)鸣,啁啾 adj. 喋喋不休的,啾啾声的 动词chatter的现在分词形式 | |
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laconically
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