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Chapter vii. The Man is Coming
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“You look very pale this morning, my child.”
Mercy sighed wearily. “I am not well,” she answered. “The slightest noises startle me. I feel tired if I only walk across the room.”
Lady Janet patted her kindly1 on the shoulder. “We must try what a change will do for you. Which shall it be? the Continent or the sea-side?”
“Your ladyship is too kind to me.”
“It is impossible to be too kind to you.”
Mercy started. The color flowed charmingly over her pale face. “Oh!” she exclaimed, impulsively2. “Say that again!”
“Say it again?” repeated Lady Janet, with a look of surprise.
“Yes! Don’t think me presuming; only think me vain. I can’t hear you say too often that you have learned to like me. Is it really a pleasure to you to have me in the house? Have I always behaved well since I have been with you?”
(The one excuse for the act of personation — if excuse there could be — lay in the affirmative answer to those questions. It would be something, surely, to say of the false Grace that the true Grace could not have been worthier3 of her welcome, if the true Grace had been received at Mablethorpe House!)
Lady Janet was partly touched, partly amused, by the extraordinary earnestness of the appeal that had been made to her.
“Have you behaved well?” she repeated. “My dear, you talk as if you were a child!” She laid her hand caressingly5 on Mercy’s arm, and continued, in a graver tone: “It is hardly too much to say, Grace, that I bless the day when you first came to me. I do believe I could be hardly fonder of you if you were my own daughter.”
Mercy suddenly turned her head aside, so as to hide her face. Lady Janet, still touching6 her arm, felt it tremble. “What is the matter with you?” she asked, in her abrupt7, downright manner.
“I am only very grateful to your ladyship — that is all.” The words were spoken faintly, in broken tones. The face was still
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adj.和蔼的,温和的,爽快的;adv.温和地,亲切地 | |
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worthier
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应得某事物( worthy的比较级 ); 值得做某事; 可尊敬的; 有(某人或事物)的典型特征 | |
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caressing
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爱抚的,表现爱情的,亲切的 | |
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caressingly
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爱抚地,亲切地 | |
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allusion
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amazement
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annoyance
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chapel
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confession
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exalted
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celebrity
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mitigating
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detest
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sufficiently
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ominously
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extremity
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exclamation
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alluding
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degradation
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passionately
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defiance
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misery
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humility
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irritation
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安抚,抚慰( appease的过去式和过去分词 ); 绥靖(满足另一国的要求以避免战争) | |
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entirely
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unreasonable
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impatience
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intercede
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dealing
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offense
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reproof
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rebuke
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habitual
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glorification
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n.赞颂 | |
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virtues
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美德( virtue的名词复数 ); 德行; 优点; 长处 | |
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tempted
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enjoyment
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n.乐趣;享有;享用 | |
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detested
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v.击退( repel的过去式和过去分词 );使厌恶;排斥;推开 | |
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hesitation
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mortified
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v.使受辱( mortify的过去式和过去分词 );伤害(人的感情);克制;抑制(肉体、情感等) | |
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bent
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ruffled
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conspicuous
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persistency
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deferred
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perfectly
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indifference
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bishop
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devouring
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吞没( devour的现在分词 ); 耗尽; 津津有味地看; 狼吞虎咽地吃光 | |
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nervously
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fixed
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trifling
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devout
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