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CHAPTER LXXIV
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In which Clive begins the World
We are ending our history, and yet poor Clive is but beginning the world. He has to earn the bread which he eats henceforth; and, as I saw his labours, his trials, and his disappointments, I could not but compare his calling with my own.
The drawbacks and penalties attendant upon our profession are taken into full account, as we well know, by literary men, and their friends. Our poverty, hardships, and disappointments are set forth1 with great emphasis, and often with too great truth by those who speak of us; but there are advantages belonging to our trade which are passed over, I think, by some of those who exercise it and describe it, and for which, in striking the balance of our accounts, we are not always duly thankful. We have no patron, so to speak — we sit in ante-chambers4 no more, waiting the present of a few guineas from my lord, in return for a fulsome5 dedication6. We sell our wares7 to the book-purveyor, between whom and us there is no greater obligation than between him and his paper-maker or printer. In the great towns in our country immense stores of books are provided for us, with librarians to class them, kind attendants to wait upon us, and comfortable appliances for study. We require scarce any capital wherewith to exercise our trade. What other so-called learned profession is equally fortunate? A doctor, for example, after carefully and expensively educating himself, must invest in house and furniture, horses, carriage, and menservants, before the public patient will think of calling him in. I am told that such gentlemen have to coax8 and wheedle9 dowagers, to humour hypochondriacs, to practise a score of little subsidiary arts in order to make that of healing profitable. How many many hundreds of pounds has a barrister to sink upon his stock-intrade before his returns are available? There are the costly
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dedication
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wares
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compassion
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fawning
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necessitates
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cringing
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restive
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desultory
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n. 出租的房舍, 寄宿舍 | |
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pauper
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n.贫民,被救济者,穷人 | |
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effigy
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cavalry
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regiment
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tenor
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gratitude
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v.(小孩般)天真无邪地说话( prattle的过去式和过去分词 );发出连续而无意义的声音;闲扯;东拉西扯 | |
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(不顾困难地)促成某事( contrive的现在分词 ); 巧妙地策划,精巧地制造(如机器); 设法做到 | |
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sate
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v.使充分满足 | |
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vt.哀叹,对...深感遗憾 | |
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distress
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n.祈神赐福;祷告;祝福,祝愿 | |
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bestowing
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砖窑中砖堆上层已烧透的砖 | |
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blessings
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landlady
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shrug
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v.耸肩(表示怀疑、冷漠、不知等) | |
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consultations
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n.磋商(会议)( consultation的名词复数 );商讨会;协商会;查找 | |
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pawn
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humbly
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apprentice
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stipulation
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persecution
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pensioner
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metropolis
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