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Delia had broken out the evening they took Mr. Probert to the circus; she had apostrophised Francie as they each sat in a red-damask chair after ascending1 to their apartments. They had bade their companions farewell at the door of the hotel and the two gentlemen had walked off in different directions. But upstairs they had instinctively2 not separated; they dropped into the first places and sat looking at each other and at the highly-decorated lamps that burned night after night in their empty saloon. “Well, I want to know when you’re going to stop,” Delia said to her sister, speaking as if this remark were a continuation, which it was not, of something they had lately been saying.
“Stop what?” asked Francie, reaching forward for a marron.
“Stop carrying-on the way you do — with Mr. Flack.”
Francie stared while she consumed her marron; then she replied in her small flat patient voice: “Why, Delia Dosson, how can you be so foolish?”
“Father, I wish you’d speak to her. Francie, I ain’t foolish,” Delia submitted.
“What do you want me to say to her?” Mr. Dosson enquired3. “I guess I’ve said about all I know.”
“Well, that’s in fun. I want you to speak to her in earnest.”
“I guess there’s no one in earnest but you,” Francie remarked. “These ain’t so good as the last.”
“NO, and there won’t be if you don’t look out. There’s something you can do if you’ll just keep quiet. If you can’t tell difference of style, well, I can!” Delia cried.
“What’s the difference of style?” asked Mr. Dosson. But before this question could be answered Francie protested against the charge of “carrying-on.” Quiet? Wasn’t she as quiet as a Quaker meeting? Delia replied that a girl wasn’t quiet so long as she didn’t keep others so; and she wanted to know what her sister proposed to do about Mr. Flack. “Why don’t you take him and let Francie take the other?” Mr. Dosson continued.
“That’s just what I’m after — to make her take the other,” said his elder daughter.
“Take him — how do you mean?” Francie returned.
“Oh you know how.”
“Yes, I guess you know how!” Mr. Dosson laughed with an absence of prejudice that might have been
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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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insistence
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courageous
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syllogism
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alluded
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providence
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consistency
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innocence
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n.无罪;天真;无害 | |
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monstrous
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celebrated
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adj.有名的,声誉卓著的 | |
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favourable
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adj.赞成的,称赞的,有利的,良好的,顺利的 | |
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prospect
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spotted
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garrison
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perversity
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inert
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dignified
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cynical
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adj.闲逛的,懒散的v.混(时间)( dawdle的现在分词 ) | |
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cane
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awfully
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reverberator
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反射器,反射灯,反射炉 | |
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stumping
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僵直地行走,跺步行走( stump的现在分词 ); 把(某人)难住; 使为难; (选举前)在某一地区作政治性巡回演说 | |
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habitual
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adj.习惯性的;通常的,惯常的 | |
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consecutively
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droll
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prospectus
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n.计划书;说明书;慕股书 | |
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mingling
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fixed
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frustrate
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v.使失望;使沮丧;使厌烦 | |
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touchy
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candidly
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spoke
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n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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gaily
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adv.欢乐地,高兴地 | |
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sufficiently
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hovered
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鸟( hover的过去式和过去分词 ); 靠近(某事物); (人)徘徊; 犹豫 | |
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divination
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acquit
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grandeur
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delightful
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positively
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delicacy
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appease
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persecutor
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gibe
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lessen
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impatience
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appreciation
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n.评价;欣赏;感谢;领会,理解;价格上涨 | |
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lash
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v.系牢;鞭打;猛烈抨击;n.鞭打;眼睫毛 | |
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veraciously
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