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Chapter XXXVI
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Chapter XXXVI
One afternoon of the autumn of 1876, toward dusk, a young man of pleasing appearance rang at the door of a small apartment on the third floor of an old Roman house. On its being opened he enquired1 for Madame Merle; whereupon the servant, a neat, plain woman, with a French face and a lady’s maid’s manner, ushered2 him into a diminutive3 drawing-room and requested the favour of his name. “Mr. Edward Rosier4,” said the young man, who sat down to wait till his hostess should appear.
The reader will perhaps not have forgotten that Mr. Rosier was an ornament5 of the American circle in Paris, but it may also be remembered that he sometimes vanished from its horizon. He had spent a portion of several winters at Pau, and as he was a gentleman of constituted habits he might have continued for years to pay his annual visit to this charming resort. In the summer of 1876, however, an incident befell him which changed the current not only of his thoughts, but of his customary sequences. He passed a month in the Upper Engadine and encountered at Saint Moritz a charming young girl. To this little person he began to pay, on the spot, particular attention: she struck him as exactly the household angel he had long been looking for. He was never precipitate6, he was nothing if not discreet7, so he forbore for the present to declare his passion; but it seemed to him when they parted — the young lady to go down into Italy and her admirer to proceed to Geneva, where he was under bonds to join other friends — that he should be romantically wretched if he were not to see her again. The simplest way to do so was to go in the autumn to Rome, where Miss Osmond was domiciled with her family. Mr. Rosier started on his pilgrimage to the Italian capital and reached it on the first of November. It was a pleasant thing to do, but for the young man there was a strain of the heroic in the enterprise. He might expose himself, unseasoned, to the poison of the Roman air, which in November lay, notoriously, much in wait. Fortune, however, favours the brave; and this adventurer, who took three grains of quinine a day, had at the end of a month no cause to
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enquired
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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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rosier
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rococo
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frivolous
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赠给,授予( bestow的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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yearningly
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怀念地,思慕地,同情地; 渴 | |
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densely
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ad.密集地;浓厚地 | |
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prospects
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vi.仲裁,说情 | |
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innocence
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aspirant
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discretion
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n.谨慎;随意处理 | |
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adj.不适当的,不合适的,不正确的,不合礼仪的 | |
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adviser
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adj.慎重的,谨慎的 | |
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[医]招致的,遭受的; incur的过去式 | |
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delightful
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adj.令人高兴的,使人快乐的 | |
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gracefully
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ad.大大方方地;优美地 | |
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benevolence
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n.慈悲,捐助 | |
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distinguished
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adj.卓越的,杰出的,著名的 | |
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growth; economy; management; and customer satisfaction 增长 | |
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outright
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adv.坦率地;彻底地;立即;adj.无疑的;彻底的 | |
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bribe
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n.贿赂;v.向…行贿,买通 | |
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dungeon
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n.地牢,土牢 | |
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fortress
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picturesque
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