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Margery duly followed up her intention by arraying herself the next morning in her loveliest guise1, and keeping watch for Mr. Vine’s appearance upon the high road, feeling certain that his would form one in the procession of carts and carriages which set in towards Exonbury that day. Jim had gone by at a very early hour, and she did not see him pass. Her anticipation2 was verified by the advent3 of Mr. Vine about eleven o’clock, dressed to his highest effort; but Margery was surprised to find that, instead of her having to stop him, he pulled in towards the gate of his own accord. The invitation planned between Jim and the old man on the previous night was now promptly4 given, and, as may be supposed, as promptly accepted. Such a strange coincidence she had never before known. She was quite ready, and they drove onward5 at once.
The Review was held on some high ground a little way out of the city, and her conductor suggested that they should put up the horse at the inn, and walk to the field — a plan which pleased her well, for it was more easy to take preliminary observations on foot without being seen herself than when sitting elevated in a vehicle.
They were just in time to secure a good place near the front, and in a few minutes after their arrival the reviewing officer came on the ground. Margery’s eye had rapidly run over the troop in which Jim was enrolled6, and she discerned him in one of the ranks, looking remarkably7 new and bright, both as to uniform and countenance8. Indeed, if she had not worked herself into such a desperate state of mind she would have felt proud of him then and there. His shapely upright figure was quite noteworthy in the row of rotund yeomen on his right and left; while his charger Tony expressed by his bearing, even more than Jim, that he knew nothing about lime-carts whatever, and everything about
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n.外表,伪装的姿态 | |
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conspicuously
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ad.明显地,惹人注目地 | |
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bonnet
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luxuriously
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precipitately
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perfectly
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Christian
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memorandum
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n.备忘录,便笺 | |
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innocence
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n.(尤指心灵上的)极度痛苦,烦恼 | |
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lodge
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v.看,注视,看到 | |
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wailing
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v.哭叫,哀号( wail的现在分词 );沱 | |
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wail
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vt./vi.大声哀号,恸哭;呼啸,尖啸 | |
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brazen
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adj.厚脸皮的,无耻的,坚硬的 | |
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impudence
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n.厚颜无耻;冒失;无礼 | |
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stammered
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(使马)飞奔,奔驰( gallop的过去式和过去分词 ); 快速做[说]某事 | |
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