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Her narrative1 ended; even its re-assertions and secondary explanations were done. Tess's voice throughout had hardly risen higher than its opening tone; there had been no exculpatory2 phrase of any kind, and she had not wept.
But the complexion3 even of external things seemed to suffer transmutation as her announcement progressed. The fire in the grate looked impish - demoniacally funny, as if it did not care in the least about her strait. The fender grinned idly, as if it too did not care. The light from the water-bottle was merely engaged in a chromatic4 problem. All material objects around announced their irresponsibility with terrible iteration. And yet nothing had changed since the moments when he had been kissing her; or rather, nothing in the substance of things. But the essence of things had changed.
When she ceased the auricular impressions from their previous endearments5 seemed to hustle6 away into the corners of their brains, repeating themselves as echoes from a time of supremely7 purblind8 foolishness.
Clare performed the irrelevant9 act of stirring the fire; the intelligence had not even yet got to the bottom of him. After stirring the embers he rose to his feet; all the force of her disclosure had imparted itself now. His face had withered10. In the strenuousness11 of his concentration he treadled fitfully on the floor. He could not, by any contrivance, think closely enough; that was the meaning of his vague movement. When he

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longing
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lessened
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antagonism
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vt./vi.传下来,下来,下降 | |
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confession
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desperately
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sinister
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transit
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fidelity
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mighty
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satiric
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distraction
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unearthed
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effete
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misery
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mishap
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rambled
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perennial
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circuitous
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chamber
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bough
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repose
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precisely
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