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Meanwhile, Winterborne and Grace Melbury had also undergone their little experiences of the same homeward journey.
As he drove off with her out of the town the glances of people fell upon them, the younger thinking that Mr. Winterborne was in a pleasant place, and wondering in what relation he stood towards her. Winterborne himself was unconscious of this. Occupied solely1 with the idea of having her in charge, he did not notice much with outward eye, neither observing how she was dressed, nor the effect of the picture they together composed in the landscape.
Their conversation was in briefest phrase for some time, Grace being somewhat disconcerted, through not having understood till they were about to start that Giles was to be her sole conductor in place of her father. When they were in the open country he spoke2.
“Don’t Brownley’s farm-buildings look strange to you, now they have been moved bodily from the hollow where the old ones stood to the top of the hill?”
She admitted that they did, though she should not have seen any difference in them if he had not pointed3 it out.
“They had a good crop of bitter-sweets; they couldn’t grind them all” (nodding towards an orchard4 where some heaps of apples had been left lying ever since the ingathering).
She said “Yes,” but looking at another orchard.
“Why, you are looking at John-apple-trees! You know bitter-sweets — you used to well enough!”
“I am afraid I have forgotten, and it is getting too dark to distinguish.”
Winterborne did not continue. It seemed as if the knowledge and interest which had formerly5 moved Grace’s mind had quite died away from her. He wondered whether the special attributes of his image in the past had evaporated like these other things.
However that might be, the fact at present was merely this, that where he was seeing John-apples and farm-buildings she was beholding6 a far remoter scene — a scene no less innocent and simple, indeed, but much contrasting — a broad lawn in the fashionable suburb of a fast city, the
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amazement
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elusiveness
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philosophically
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adv.哲学上;富有哲理性地;贤明地;冷静地 | |
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pitchers
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cultivation
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narration
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证明( demonstration的名词复数 ); 表明; 表达; 游行示威 | |
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制定(法律),通过(法案)( enact的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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cogitation
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n.仔细思考,计划,设计 | |
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deity
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树丛,小树林( grove的名词复数 ) | |
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thoroughly
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chambers
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chamber
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n.房间,寝室;会议厅;议院;会所 | |
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adj.微小的,细微的,极小的,显微的 | |
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estranged
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commodious
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推测,猜想( conjecture的名词复数 ) | |
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默想( meditation的名词复数 ); 默念; 沉思; 冥想 | |
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长期受苦( languish的过去式和过去分词 ); 受折磨; 变得(越来越)衰弱; 因渴望而变得憔悴或闷闷不乐 | |
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