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Chapter III A Turn in the Discussion
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“I’m afraid Dick’s a lost man,” said the tranter.
“What? — no!” said Mail, implying by his manner that it was a far commoner thing for his ears to report what was not said than that his judgment1 should be at fault.
“Ay,” said the tranter, still gazing at Dick’s unconscious advance. “I don’t at all like what I see! There’s too many o’ them looks out of the winder without noticing anything; too much shining of boots; too much peeping round corners; too much looking at the clock; telling about clever things she did till you be sick of it; and then upon a hint to that effect a horrible silence about her. I’ve walked the path once in my life and know the country, neighbours; and Dick’s a lost man!” The tranter turned a quarter round and smiled a smile of miserable2 satire3 at the setting new moon, which happened to catch his eye.
The others became far too serious at this announcement to allow them to speak; and they still regarded Dick in the distance.
“’Twas his mother’s fault,” the tranter continued, “in asking the young woman to our party last Christmas. When I eyed the blue frock and light heels o’ the maid, I had my thoughts directly. ‘God bless thee, Dicky my sonny,’ I said to myself; ‘there’s a delusion4 for thee!’”
“They seemed to be rather distant in manner last Sunday, I thought?” Mail tentatively observed, as became one who was not a member of the family.
“Ay, that’s a part of the zickness. Distance belongs to it, slyness belongs to it, queerest things on earth belongs to it! There, ‘tmay as well come early as late s’far as I know. The sooner begun, the sooner over; for come it will.”
“The question I ask is,” said Mr. Spinks, connecting into one thread the two subjects of discourse5, as became a man learned in rhetoric6, and beating with his hand in a way which signified that the manner rather than the matter of his speech was to be observed, “how did Mr. Maybold know she could play the organ? You know we had it from her own lips, as far as lips go, that she has never, first or last, breathed such a thing to him; much less that she ever would play.”
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1 judgment | |
n.审判;判断力,识别力,看法,意见 | |
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adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的 | |
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n.讽刺,讽刺文学,讽刺作品 | |
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4 delusion | |
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8 allusion | |
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9 alteration | |
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14 confession | |
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15 musingly | |
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16 sweeping | |
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17 melancholy | |
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23 glimmer | |
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