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I gave up by going, decidedly, to the smoking-room, where several men had gathered and where Obert, a little apart from them, was in charmed communion with the bookshelves. They are wonderful, everywhere, at Newmarch, the bookshelves, but he put a volume back as he saw me come in, and a moment later, when we were seated, I said to him again, as a recall of our previous passage, “Then you could tell what I was talking about!” And I added, to complete my reference, “Since you thought Mrs. Server was the person whom, when I stopped you, I was sorry to learn from you I had missed.”
His momentary1 silence appeared to admit the connection I established. “Then you find you have missed her? She wasn’t there for you?”
“There’s no one ‘there for me’; so that I fear that if you weren’t, as it happens, here for me, my amusement would be quite at an end. I had, in fact,” I continued, “already given it up as lost when I came upon you, a while since, in conversation with the lady we’ve named. At that, I confess, my prospects2 gave something of a flare3. I said to myself that since your interest hadn’t then wholly dropped, why, even at the worst, should mine? Yours was mine, wasn’t it? for a little, this morning. Or was it mine that was yours? We exchanged, at any rate, some lively impressions. Only, before we had done, your effort dropped or your discretion4 intervened: you gave up, as none of your business, the question that had suddenly tempted5 us.”
“And you gave it up too,” said my friend.
“Yes, and it was on the idea that it was mine as little as yours that we separated.”
“Well then?” He kept his eyes, with his head thrown back, on the warm bindings, admirable for old gilt6 and old colour, that covered the opposite wall.
“Well then, if I’ve correctly gathered that you’re, in spite of our common renunciation, still interested, I confess to you that I am. I took my detachment too soon for granted. I haven’t been detached. I’m not, hang me! detached now. And it’s all because you were originally so suggestive.”
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n.眨眼,使眼色,瞬间;v.眨眼,使眼色,闪烁 | |
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淬火,熄 | |
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n.跳进,投入vt.使投入,使插入,使陷入vi.投入,跳进,陷入v.颠簸( plunge的第三人称单数 );暴跌;骤降;突降 | |
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attestation
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n.证词 | |
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v.劝告( admonish的过去式和过去分词 );训诫;(温和地)责备;轻责 | |
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adv.恰好,正好,精确地,细致地 | |
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n.尴尬;使人为难的人(事物);障碍;窘迫 | |
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gathering
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simplicity
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allude
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colloquy
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n.谈话,自由讨论 | |
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constructive
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concurrence
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testimony
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n.证词;见证,证明 | |
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vivacity
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n.快活,活泼,精神充沛 | |
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v.结巴地说出( stammer的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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n.喘息,气喘;v.喘息;气吁吁他说 | |
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admiration
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n.钦佩,赞美,羡慕 | |
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a.火焰摇曳的,过份艳丽的 | |
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n.明暗对照法 | |
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determined
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impatience
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enjoyment
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n.乐趣;享有;享用 | |
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v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的 | |
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misery
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monstrous
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补充( replenish的过去式和过去分词 ); 重新装满 | |
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humiliation
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rejuvenated
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