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Chapter 2
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Beware the man who’s crossed in love,
For pent-up steam must find its vent1;
Step back when he is on the move,
And lend him all the Continent.
The Buck2 and the Saw.
To sail from New York on the 31st she must leave Topaz by the 27th at latest. It was now the 15th. Tarvin made the most of the intervening time. He called on her at her home every evening, and argued it out with her.
Kate listened with the gentlest willingness to be convinced, but with a dread3 firmness round the corners of her mouth, and with a sad wish to be good to him, if she could, battling in her eyes with a sadder helplessness.
‘I’m called!’ she cried. ‘I’m called. I can’t get away from it. I can’t help listening. I can’t help going.’
And, as she told him, grieving, how the cry of her sisters out of that dim misery4, that was yet so distinct, tugged5 at her heart — how the useless horror and torture of their lives called on her by night and by day, Tarvin could not refuse to respect the solemnly felt need that drew her from him. He could not help begging her in every accent he knew not to hearken to it, but the painful pull of the cry she heard was not a strange or incredible thing to his own generous heart. He only urged hotly that there were other cries, and that there were other people to attend to this one. He, too, had a need, the need for her; and she another, if she would stop a moment to listen to it. They needed each other; that was the supreme6 need. The women in India could wait; they would go over and look them up later, when the Three C.‘s had come to Topaz, and he had made his pile. Meanwhile there was happiness; meanwhile there was love! He was ingenious, he was deeply in love, he knew what he wanted, and he found the most persuasive7 language for making it seem to be what she wanted in disguise. Kate had to strengthen her resolution often in the
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vocation
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repulsive
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liking
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confirmation
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persuasively
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imploringly
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penitence
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entreat
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v.恳求,恳请 | |
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canvass
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v.招徕顾客,兜售;游说;详细检查,讨论 | |
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credulously
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deriding
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nether
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organise
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corps
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missionary
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yokes
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idol
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rejection
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cancellation
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dangling
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auditor
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