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Chapter IV The Spell
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Mrs. Endorfield’s advice was duly followed.
“I be proper sorry that your daughter isn’t so well as she might be,” said a Mellstock man to Geoffrey one morning.
“But is there anything in it?” said Geoffrey uneasily, as he shifted his hat to the right. “I can’t understand the report. She didn’t complain to me a bit when I saw her.”
“No appetite at all, they say.”
Geoffrey crossed to Mellstock and called at the school that afternoon. Fancy welcomed him as usual, and asked him to stay and take tea with her.
“I be’n’t much for tea, this time o’ day,” he said, but stayed.
During the meal he watched her narrowly. And to his great consternation1 discovered the following unprecedented2 change in the healthy girl — that she cut herself only a diaphanous3 slice of bread-and-butter, and, laying it on her plate, passed the meal-time in breaking it into pieces, but eating no more than about one-tenth of the slice. Geoffrey hoped she would say something about Dick, and finish up by weeping, as she had done after the decision against him a few days subsequent to the interview in the garden. But nothing was said, and in due time Geoffrey departed again for Yalbury Wood.
“’Tis to be hoped poor Miss Fancy will be able to keep on her school,” said Geoffrey’s man Enoch to Geoffrey the following week, as they were shovelling5 up ant-hills in the wood.
Geoffrey stuck in the shovel6, swept seven or eight ants from his sleeve, and killed another that was prowling round his ear, then looked perpendicularly7 into the earth as usual, waiting for Enoch to say more. “Well, why shouldn’t she?” said the keeper at last.
“The baker8 told me yesterday,” continued Enoch, shaking out another emmet that had run merrily up his
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1 consternation | |
n.大为吃惊,惊骇 | |
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3 diaphanous | |
adj.(布)精致的,半透明的 | |
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4 kin | |
n.家族,亲属,血缘关系;adj.亲属关系的,同类的 | |
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5 shovelling | |
v.铲子( shovel的现在分词 );锹;推土机、挖土机等的)铲;铲形部份 | |
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6 shovel | |
n.铁锨,铲子,一铲之量;v.铲,铲出 | |
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7 perpendicularly | |
adv. 垂直地, 笔直地, 纵向地 | |
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8 baker | |
n.面包师 | |
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9 thigh | |
n.大腿;股骨 | |
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11 helping | |
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的 | |
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12 joints | |
接头( joint的名词复数 ); 关节; 公共场所(尤指价格低廉的饮食和娱乐场所) (非正式); 一块烤肉 (英式英语) | |
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15 tribulation | |
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16 debtor | |
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17 affronted | |
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18 muggy | |
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19 sweeping | |
adj.范围广大的,一扫无遗的 | |
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20 inconveniently | |
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21 ascended | |
v.上升,攀登( ascend的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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n.病人,伤残人;adj.有病的,伤残的;无效的 | |
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23 coaxed | |
v.哄,用好话劝说( coax的过去式和过去分词 );巧言骗取;哄劝,劝诱 | |
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