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The doctor’s professional visit to Hintock House was promptly1 repeated the next day and the next. He always found Mrs. Charmond reclining on a sofa, and behaving generally as became a patient who was in no great hurry to lose that title. On each occasion he looked gravely at the little scratch on her arm, as if it had been a serious wound.
He had also, to his further satisfaction, found a slight scar on her temple, and it was very convenient to put a piece of black plaster on this conspicuous2 part of her person in preference to gold-beater’s skin, so that it might catch the eyes of the servants, and make his presence appear decidedly necessary, in case there should be any doubt of the fact.
“Oh — you hurt me!” she exclaimed one day.
He was peeling off the bit of plaster on her arm, under which the scrape had turned the color of an unripe3 blackberry previous to vanishing altogether. “Wait a moment, then — I’ll damp it,” said Fitzpiers. He put his lips to the place and kept them there till the plaster came off easily. “It was at your request I put it on,” said he.
“I know it,” she replied. “Is that blue vein4 still in my temple that used to show there? The scar must be just upon it. If the cut had been a little deeper it would have spilt my hot blood indeed!” Fitzpiers examined so closely that his breath touched her tenderly, at which their eyes rose to an encounter — hers showing themselves as deep and mysterious as interstellar space. She turned her face away suddenly. “Ah! none of that! none of that — I cannot coquet with you!” she cried. “Don’t suppose I consent to for one moment. Our poor, brief, youthful hour of love-making was too long ago to bear continuing now. It is as well that we should understand each other on that point before we go further.”
“Coquet! Nor I with you. As it was when I found the historic gloves, so it is now. I might have been and may be foolish; but I am no trifler. I naturally cannot forget that little space in which I flitted across the field of your vision in those days of the past, and the recollection opens up all sorts of imaginings.”
“Suppose my mother had not taken me away?” she murmured, her dreamy eyes resting on the swaying tip of a distant tree.
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adj.明眼的,惹人注目的;炫耀的,摆阔气的 | |
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incipient
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passionate
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lapsed
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frivolous
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stifled
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conflagration
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fathomed
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理解…的真意( fathom的过去式和过去分词 ); 彻底了解; 弄清真相 | |
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subtlety
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n.操舵装置 | |
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dependants
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isolation
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moodiness
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n.喜怒无常;喜怒无常,闷闷不乐;情绪 | |
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intercept
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prospects
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n.壁凹( recess的名词复数 );(工作或业务活动的)中止或暂停期间;学校的课间休息;某物内部的凹形空间v.把某物放在墙壁的凹处( recess的第三人称单数 );将(墙)做成凹形,在(墙)上做壁龛;休息,休会,休庭 | |
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gale
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foliage
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n.蜗牛;迟钝的人;蜗牛( snail的名词复数 ) | |
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exhausted
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stunted
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farce
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uncertainty
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friendliness
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v.交谈,谈话( converse的过去式 ) | |
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rosy
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garish
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adroitness
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dismal
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rejuvenated
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nettled
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chamber
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opposition
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misery
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hilarity
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champagne
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