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Chapter XXII.
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The sunny, leafy week which followed the tender doings of Midsummer Eve brought a visitor to Fitzpiers’s door; a voice that he knew sounded in the passage. Mr. Melbury had called. At first he had a particular objection to enter the parlor1, because his boots were dusty, but as the surgeon insisted he waived2 the point and came in.
Looking neither to the right nor to the left, hardly at Fitzpiers himself, he put his hat under his chair, and with a preoccupied3 gaze at the floor, he said, “I’ve called to ask you, doctor, quite privately4, a question that troubles me. I’ve a daughter, Grace, an only daughter, as you may have heard. Well, she’s been out in the dew — on Midsummer Eve in particular she went out in thin slippers5 to watch some vagary6 of the Hintock maids — and she’s got a cough, a distinct hemming7 and hacking8, that makes me uneasy. Now, I have decided9 to send her away to some seaside place for a change —”
“Send her away!” Fitzpiers’s countenance10 had fallen.
“Yes. And the question is, where would you advise me to send her?”
The timber-merchant had happened to call at a moment when Fitzpiers was at the spring-tide of a sentiment that Grace was a necessity of his existence. The sudden pressure of her form upon his breast as she came headlong round the bush had never ceased to linger with him, ever since he adopted the manoeuvre
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1 parlor | |
n.店铺,营业室;会客室,客厅 | |
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2 waived | |
v.宣布放弃( waive的过去式和过去分词 );搁置;推迟;放弃(权利、要求等) | |
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3 preoccupied | |
adj.全神贯注的,入神的;被抢先占有的;心事重重的v.占据(某人)思想,使对…全神贯注,使专心于( preoccupy的过去式) | |
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4 privately | |
adv.以私人的身份,悄悄地,私下地 | |
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5 slippers | |
n. 拖鞋 | |
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6 vagary | |
n.妄想,不可测之事,异想天开 | |
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7 hemming | |
卷边 | |
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8 hacking | |
n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动 | |
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adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的 | |
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10 countenance | |
n.脸色,面容;面部表情;vt.支持,赞同 | |
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11 manoeuvre | |
n.策略,调动;v.用策略,调动 | |
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12 postponed | |
vt.& vi.延期,缓办,(使)延迟vt.把…放在次要地位;[语]把…放在后面(或句尾)vi.(疟疾等)延缓发作(或复发) | |
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13 infinitely | |
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14 utterance | |
n.用言语表达,话语,言语 | |
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15 agitated | |
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16 drawn | |
v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的 | |
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17 ascertain | |
vt.发现,确定,查明,弄清 | |
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18 banish | |
vt.放逐,驱逐;消除,排除 | |
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19 dreading | |
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20 chilly | |
adj.凉快的,寒冷的 | |
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21 postponing | |
v.延期,推迟( postpone的现在分词 ) | |
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22 recollecting | |
v.记起,想起( recollect的现在分词 ) | |
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23 plunge | |
v.跳入,(使)投入,(使)陷入;猛冲 | |
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24 density | |
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25 compensated | |
补偿,报酬( compensate的过去式和过去分词 ); 给(某人)赔偿(或赔款) | |
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26 leisurely | |
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27 squeak | |
n.吱吱声,逃脱;v.(发出)吱吱叫,侥幸通过;(俚)告密 | |
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28 puddle | |
n.(雨)水坑,泥潭 | |
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29 puddles | |
n.水坑, (尤指道路上的)雨水坑( puddle的名词复数 ) | |
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30 random | |
adj.随机的;任意的;n.偶然的(或随便的)行动 | |
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31 interval | |
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32 sufficiently | |
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33 havoc | |
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34 appreciative | |
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35 animation | |
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36 fascination | |
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37 psychic | |
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38 impulsive | |
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39 destined | |
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40 subtleties | |
细微( subtlety的名词复数 ); 精细; 巧妙; 细微的差别等 | |
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41 biassed | |
(统计试验中)结果偏倚的,有偏的 | |
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42 sarcastic | |
adj.讥讽的,讽刺的,嘲弄的 | |
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43 worthy | |
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44 deploring | |
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45 standing | |
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46 implicit | |
a.暗示的,含蓄的,不明晰的,绝对的 | |
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47 intensity | |
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48 descended | |
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49 betrothal | |
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