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Chapter the Thirty-Eighth
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Is there no Excuse for Him?
OSCAR’S dismissed servant (left, during the usual month of warning, to take care of the house) opened the door to me when I knocked. Although the hour was already a late one in primitive1 Dimchurch, the man showed no signs of surprise at seeing me.
“Is Mr. Nugent Dubourg at home?”
“Yes, ma’am.” He lowered his voice, and added, “I think Mr. Nugent expected to see you to-night.”
Whether he intended it, or not, the servant had done me a good turn — he had put me on my guard. Nugent Dubourg understood my character better than I had understood his. He had foreseen what would happen, when I heard of Lucilla’s visit on my return to the rectory — and he had, no doubt, prepared himself accordingly. I was conscious of a certain nervous trembling (I own) as I followed the servant to the sitting-room2. At the moment, however, when he opened the door, this ignoble3 sensation left me as suddenly as it had come. I felt myself Pratolungo’s widow again, when I entered the room.
A reading-lamp, with its shade down, was the only light on the table. Nugent Dubourg, comfortably reposing4 in an easychair, sat by the lamp, with a cigar in his mouth, and a book in his hand. He put down the book on the table as he rose to receive me. Knowing, by this time, what sort of man I had to deal with, I was determined5 not to let even the merest trifles escape me. It might have its use in helping7 me to understand him, if I knew how he had been occupying his mind while he was expecting me to arrive. I looked at the book. It was Rousseau’s Confessions8.
He advanced with his pleasant smile, and offered his hand as if nothing had happened to disturb our ordinary relations towards each other. I drew back a step, and looked at him.
“Won’t you shake hands with me?” he asked.
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adj.原始的;简单的;n.原(始)人,原始事物 | |
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tact
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恳求,乞求( entreat的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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pangs
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