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Chapter X
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Chapter X
The day after her visit to Lockleigh she received a note from her friend Miss Stackpole — a note of which the envelope, exhibiting in conjunction the postmark of Liverpool and the neat calligraphy1 of the quick-fingered Henrietta, caused her some liveliness of emotion. “Here I am, my lovely friend,” Miss Stackpole wrote; “I managed to get off at last. I decided3 only the night before I left New York — the Interviewer having come round to my figure. I put a few things into a bag, like a veteran journalist, and came down to the steamer in a street-car. Where are you and where can we meet? I suppose you’re visiting at some castle or other and have already acquired the correct accent. Perhaps even you have married a lord; I almost hope you have, for I want some introductions to the first people and shall count on you for a few. The Interviewer wants some light on the nobility. My first impressions (of the people at large) are not rose-coloured; but I wish to talk them over with you, and you know that, whatever I am, at least I’m not superficial. I’ve also something very particular to tell you. Do appoint a meeting as quickly as you can; come to London (I should like so much to visit the sights with you) or else let me come to you, wherever you are. I will do so with pleasure; for you know everything interests me and I wish to see as much as possible of the inner life.”
Isabel judged best not to show this letter to her uncle; but she acquainted him with its purport4, and, as she expected, he begged her instantly to assure Miss Stackpole, in his name, that he should be delighted to receive her at Gardencourt. “Though she’s a literary lady,” he said, “I suppose that, being an American, she won’t show me up, as that other one did. She has seen others like me.”
“She has seen no other so delightful5!” Isabel answered; but she was not altogether at ease about Henrietta’s reproductive instincts, which belonged to that side of her friend’s character which she regarded with least complacency. She wrote to Miss Stackpole, however, that she would be very welcome under Mr. Touchett’s roof; and this alert young woman lost no time in announcing her prompt approach. She had gone up to London, and it was from that centre that she took the train for the station nearest to Gardencourt, where Isabel and Ralph were in waiting to receive her.
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impudence
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defiance
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lucidity
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inviolate
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a.不光彩的,不名誉的 | |
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n.爱国精神,爱国心,爱国主义 | |
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打听( enquire的过去式和过去分词 ); 询问; 问问题; 查问 | |
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n.不感兴趣,不关心,冷淡,不在乎 | |
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immoral
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flirtation
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n.调情,调戏,挑逗 | |
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undertaking
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n.保证,许诺,事业 | |
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expedient
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adj.有用的,有利的;n.紧急的办法,权宜之计 | |
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ornament
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n.装饰( ornament的名词复数 );点缀;装饰品;首饰v.装饰,点缀,美化( ornament的第三人称单数 ) | |
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admiration
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n.钦佩,赞美,羡慕 | |
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深思,沉思,冥想( meditate的过去式和过去分词 ); 内心策划,考虑 | |
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perversity
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