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'I lull1 a fancy, trouble-tost.'
Miss Swancourt, it is eleven o'clock.'
She was looking out of her dressing-room window on the first floor, and Knight2 was regarding her from the terrace balustrade, upon which he had been idly sitting for some time--dividing the glances of his eye between the pages of a book in his hand, the brilliant hues3 of the geraniums and calceolarias, and the open window above-mentioned.
'Yes, it is, I know. I am coming.'
He drew closer, and under the window.
'How are you this morning, Elfride? You look no better for your long night's rest.'
She appeared at the door shortly after, took his offered arm, and together they walked slowly down the gravel4 path leading to the river and away under the trees.
Her resolution, sustained during the last fifteen hours, had been to tell the whole truth, and now the moment had come.
Step by step they advanced, and still she did not speak. They were nearly at the end of the walk, when Knight broke the silence.
'Well, what is the confession5, Elfride?'
She paused a moment, drew a long breath; and this is what she said:
'I told you one day--or rather I gave you to understand--what was not true. I fancy you thought me to mean I was nineteen my next birthday, but it was my last I was nineteen.'
The moment had been too much for her. Now that the crisis had come, no qualms6 of conscience, no love of honesty, no yearning7 to make a confidence and obtain forgiveness with a kiss, could string Elfride up to the venture. Her dread8 lest he should be unforgiving was heightened by the thought of yesterday's artifice9, which might possibly add disgust to his disappointment. The certainty of one more day's affection, which she gained by silence, outvalued the hope of a perpetuity combined with the risk of all.

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v.使安静,使入睡,缓和,哄骗;n.暂停,间歇 | |
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色彩( hue的名词复数 ); 色调; 信仰; 观点 | |
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confession
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mere
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iota
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genial
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exclamation
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modesty
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truthful
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woe
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rustic
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adorned
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trespass
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pony
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slanderous
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plantation
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chromatic
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lustrous
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beeches
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rusty
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extremity
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torrent
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meandering
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蜿蜒的河流,漫步,聊天 | |
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scrambled
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brook
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cloister
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cascade
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gushing
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v.滴( trickle的过去式和过去分词 );淌;使)慢慢走;缓慢移动 | |
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v.(使)变细( attenuate的过去式和过去分词 );(使)变薄;(使)变小;减弱 | |
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深思,细想,仔细考虑( contemplate的现在分词 ); 注视,凝视; 考虑接受(发生某事的可能性); 深思熟虑,沉思,苦思冥想 | |
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candidly
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satire
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