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Chapter 13 Give a Dog a Bad Name, and Hang Him
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Fascination1 Fledgeby, left alone in the counting-house, strolled about with his hat on one side, whistling, and investigating the drawers, and prying2 here and there for any small evidences of his being cheated, but could find none. ‘Not his merit that he don’t cheat me,’ was Mr Fledgeby’s commentary delivered with a wink3, ‘but my precaution.’ He then with a lazy grandeur4 asserted his rights as lord of Pubsey and Co. by poking5 his cane6 at the stools and boxes, and spitting in the fireplace, and so loitered royally to the window and looked out into the narrow street, with his small eyes just peering over the top of Pubsey and Co.’s blind. As a blind in more senses than one, it reminded him that he was alone in the counting-house with the front door open. He was moving away to shut it, lest he should be injudiciously identified with the establishment, when he was stopped by some one coming to the door.
This some one was the dolls’ dressmaker, with a little basket on her arm, and her crutch7 stick in her hand. Her keen eyes had espied8 Mr Fledgeby before Mr Fledgeby had espied her, and he was paralysed in his purpose of shutting her out, not so much by her approaching the door, as by her favouring him with a shower of nods, the instant he saw her. This advantage she improved by hobbling up the steps with such despatch9 that before Mr Fledgeby could take measures for her finding nobody at home, she was face to face with him in the counting-house.
‘Hope I see you well, sir,’ said Miss Wren10
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n.令人着迷的事物,魅力,迷恋 | |
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n.鹪鹩;英国皇家海军女子服务队成员 | |
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repudiation
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creditor
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counterfeiting
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恳求,乞求( entreat的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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knight
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penitent
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confiding
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enjoyment
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munificence
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kinsman
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