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Chapter 5 The Golden Dustman Falls into Bad Company
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Were Bella Wilfer’s bright and ready little wits at fault, or was the Golden Dustman passing through the furnace of proof and coming out dross1? Ill news travels fast. We shall know full soon.
On that very night of her return from the Happy Return, something chanced which Bella closely followed with her eyes and ears. There was an apartment at the side of the Boffin mansion3, known as Mr Boffin’s room. Far less grand than the rest of the house, it was far more comfortable, being pervaded4 by a certain air of homely5 snugness6, which upholstering despotism had banished7 to that spot when it inexorably set its face against Mr Boffin’s appeals for mercy in behalf of any other chamber8. Thus, although a room of modest situation — for its windows gave on Silas Wegg’s old corner — and of no pretensions9 to velvet10, satin, or gilding11, it had got itself established in a domestic position analogous12 to that of an easy dressing-gown or pair of slippers13; and whenever the family wanted to enjoy a particularly pleasant fireside evening, they enjoyed it, as an institution that must be, in Mr Boffin’s room.
Mr and Mrs Boffin were reported sitting in this room, when Bella got back. Entering it, she found the Secretary there too; in official attendance it would appear, for he was
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scrunched
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v.发出喀嚓声( scrunch的过去式和过去分词 );蜷缩;压;挤压 | |
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musing
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n. 沉思,冥想 adj. 沉思的, 冥想的 动词muse的现在分词形式 | |
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