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LXV FLORA'S LAST THROW
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Normal as cock-crowing seemed the antiphony to the common ear, which scarcely noticed the rareness of the indoor voice. But Greenleaf's was not the common ear, nor was Flora1 Valcour's.
To her that closing strain made the torture of inaction finally unbearable2. Had Anna heard? Leaving Madame she moved to a hall door of the room where they sat. Was Anna's blood surging like her own? It could not! Under what a tempest of conjectures3 she looked down and across the great hall to the closed and sentinelled door of that front drawing-room so rife4 with poignant5 recollections. There, she thought, was Anna. From within it, more faintly now, came those sounds of a mason at work which had seemed to ring with the song. But the song had ceased. About the hall highly gilded6 officers conferred alertly in pairs or threes, more or less in the way of younger ones who smartly crossed from room to room. Here came Greenleaf! Seeking her? No, he would have passed unaware7, but her lips ventured his name.
Never had she seen such a look in his face as that with which he confronted her. Grief, consternation8, discovery and wrath9 were all as one save that only the discovery and wrath meant her. She saw how for two days and nights he had been putting this and that and this and that and this and that together until he had guessed her out. Sternly in his eyes she perceived contumely withholding10 itself, yet even while she felt the done-for cry heave through her bosom
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flora
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n.(某一地区的)植物群 | |
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adj.不能容忍的;忍受不住的 | |
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conjectures
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推测,猜想( conjecture的名词复数 ) | |
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unaware
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consternation
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withholding
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扣缴税款 | |
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bosom
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impromptu
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smitten
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abiding
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supplicant
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amazement
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softening
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变软,软化 | |
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tune
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n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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feigned
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sentry
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manly
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distress
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conspired
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glided
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anguish
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growled
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deft
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smother
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rigid
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doomed
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vile
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assent
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beseechingly
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gilt
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reverence
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