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“I have told you that I heard much of this story from a friend of the Intendant of the De Crequys, whom he met with in London. Some years afterwards — the summer before my lord’s death — I was travelling with him in Devonshire, and we went to see the French prisoners of war on Dartmoor. We fell into conversation with one of them, whom I found out to be the very Pierre of whom I had heard before, as having been involved in the fatal story of Clement1 and Virginie, and by him I was told much of their last days, and thus I learnt how to have some sympathy with all those who were concerned in those terrible events; yes, even with the younger Morin himself, on whose behalf Pierre spoke2 warmly, even after so long a time had elapsed.
“For when the younger Morin called at the porter’s lodge3, on the evening of the day when Virginie had gone out for the first time after so many months’ confinement4 to the conciergerie, he was struck with the improvement in her appearance. It seems to have hardly been that he thought her beauty greater: for, in addition to the fact that she was not beautiful, Morin had arrived at that point of being enamoured when it does not signify whether the beloved one is plain or handsome — she has enchanted5 one pair of eyes, which henceforward see her through their own medium. But Morin noticed the faint increase of colour and light in her countenance6. It was as though she had broken through her thick cloud of hopeless sorrow, and was dawning forth7 into a happier life. And so, whereas during her grief, he had revered8 and respected it even to a point of silent sympathy, now that she was gladdened, his heart rose on the wings of strengthened hopes. Even in the dreary
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解(渴)( quench的过去式和过去分词 ); 终止(某事物); (用水)扑灭(火焰等); 将(热物体)放入水中急速冷却 | |
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