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Chapter XLIV
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Chapter XLIV
The Countess Gemini was often extremely bored — bored, in her own phrase, to extinction1. She had not been extinguished, however, and she struggled bravely enough with her destiny, which had been to marry an unaccommodating Florentine who insisted upon living in his native town, where he enjoyed such consideration as might attach to a gentleman whose talent for losing at cards had not the merit of being incidental to an obliging disposition2. The Count Gemini was not liked even by those who won from him; and he bore a name which, having a measurable value in Florence, was, like the local coin of the old Italian states, without currency in other parts of the peninsula. In Rome he was simply a very dull Florentine, and it is not remarkable3 that he should not have cared to pay frequent visits to a place where, to carry it off, his dulness needed more explanation than was convenient. The Countess lived with her eyes upon Rome, and it was the constant grievance4 of her life that she had not an habitation there. She was ashamed to say how seldom she had been allowed to visit that city; it scarcely made the matter better that there were other members of the Florentine nobility who never had been there at all. She went whenever she could; that was all she could say. Or rather not all, but all she said she could say. In fact she had much more to say about it, and had often set forth5 the reasons why she hated Florence and wished to end her days in the shadow of Saint Peter’s. They are reasons, however, that do not closely concern us, and were usually summed up in the declaration that Rome, in short, was the Eternal City and that Florence was simply a pretty little place like any other. The Countess apparently6 needed to connect the idea of eternity7 with her amusements. She was convinced that society was infinitely
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extinction
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eternity
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n.不朽,来世;永恒,无穷 | |
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anomalous
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inviting
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abruptly
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使恶化( aggravate的第三人称单数 ); 使更严重; 激怒; 使恼火 | |
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vividly
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adj.令人高兴的,使人快乐的 | |
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doorway
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portico
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chambers
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