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Chapter 20 Men and Gentlemen
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‘Old and young, boy, let ’em all eat, I have it;
Let ’em have ten tire of teeth a-piece, I care not.’
ROLLO, DUKE OF NORMANDY.
Margaret went home so painfully occupied with what she had heard and seen that she hardly knew how to rouse herself up to the duties which awaited her; the necessity for keeping up a constant flow of cheerful conversation for her mother, who, now that she was unable to go out, always looked to Margaret’s return from the shortest walk as bringing in some news.
‘And can your factory friend come on Thursday to see you dressed?’
‘She was so ill I never thought of asking her,’ said Margaret, dolefully.
‘Dear! Everybody is ill now, I think,’ said Mrs. Hale, with a little of the jealousy2 which one invalid3 is apt to feel of another. ‘But it must be very sad to be ill in one of those little back streets.’ (Her kindly4 nature prevailing5, and the old Helstone habits of thought returning.) ‘It’s bad enough here. What could you do for her, Margaret? Mr. Thornton has sent me some of his old port wine since you went out. Would a bottle of that do her good, think you?’
‘No, mamma! I don’t believe they are very poor — at least, they don’t speak as if they were; and, at any rate, Bessy’s illness is consumption — she won’t want wine. Perhaps, I might take her a little preserve, made of our dear Helstone fruit. No! there’s another family to whom I should like to give — Oh mamma, mamma! how am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?’ exclaimed Margaret, bursting the bounds she had preordained for herself before she came in, and telling her mother of what she had seen and heard at Higgins’s cottage.
It distressed6 Mrs. Hale excessively. It made her restlessly irritated till she could do something. She directed Margaret to pack up a basket in the very drawing-room, to be sent there and then to the family; and was almost angry with her for saying, that it would not signify if it did not go till morning, as she knew Higgins had provided for their
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dressing
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admiration
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sumptuousness
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adj.生气勃勃的,活跃的,愉快的 | |
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adj.正直的,坦率的;易懂的,简单的 | |
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adj.争论不休的;(指问题等)棘手的;争论不休的问题;烦恼的v.使烦恼( vex的过去式和过去分词 );使苦恼;使生气;详细讨论 | |
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