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Chapter 35 Expiation
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‘There’s nought1 so finely spun2
But it cometh to the sun.’
Mr. Thornton sate3 on and on. He felt that his company gave pleasure to Mr. Hale; and was touched by the half-spoken wishful entreaty5 that he would remain a little longer — the plaintive6 ‘Don’t go yet,’ which his poor friend put forth7 from time to time. He wondered Margaret did not return; but it was with no view of seeing her that he lingered. For the hour — and in the presence of one who was so thoroughly8 feeling the nothingness of earth — he was reasonable and self-controlled. He was deeply interested in all her father said,
‘Of death, and of the heavy lull9, And of the brain that has grown dull.’
It was curious how the presence of Mr. Thornton had power over Mr. Hale to make him unlock the secret thoughts which he kept shut up even from Margaret. Whether it was that her sympathy would be so keen, and show itself in so lively a manner, that he was afraid of the reaction upon himself, or whether it was that to his speculative10 mind all kinds of doubts presented themselves at such a time, pleading and crying aloud to be resolved into certainties, and that he knew she would have shrunk from the expression of any such doubts — nay11, from him himself as capable of conceiving them — whatever was the reason, he could unburden himself better to Mr. Thornton than to her of all the thoughts and fancies and fears that had been frost-bound in his brain till now. Mr. Thornton said very little; but every sentence he uttered added to Mr. Hale’s reliance and regard for him. Was it that he paused in the expression of some remembered agony, Mr. Thornton’s two or three words would complete the sentence, and show how deeply its meaning was entered into. Was it a doubt — a fear — a wandering
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liar
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v.百灵科鸟(尤指云雀)( lark的现在分词 );一大早就起床;鸡鸣即起;(因太费力而不想干时说)算了 | |
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chilliness
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faculties
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n.能力( faculty的名词复数 );全体教职员;技巧;院 | |
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chaos
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monstrous
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gratitude
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对(自己的所为)感到懊悔或忏悔( repent的现在分词 ) | |
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