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She had to make up her mind what to do. She would leave Venice on the Saturday that he was leaving Wragby: in six days' time. This would bring her to London on the Monday following, and she would then see him. She wrote to him to the London address, asking him to send her a letter to Hartland's hotel, and to call for her on the Monday evening at seven.
Inside herself she was curiously1 and complicatedly angry, and all her responses were numb2. She refused to confide3 even in Hilda, and Hilda, offended by her steady silence, had become rather intimate with a Dutch woman. Connie hated these rather stifling4 intimacies5 between women, intimacy6 into which Hilda always entered ponderously7.
Sir Malcolm decided8 to travel with Connie, and Duncan could come on with Hilda. The old artist always did himself well: he took berths9 on the Orient Express, in spite of Connie's dislike of trains de luxe, the atmosphere of vulgar depravity there is aboard them nowadays. However, it would make the journey to Paris shorter.
Sir Malcolm was always uneasy going back to his wife. It was habit carried over from the first wife. But there would be a house-party for the grouse10, and he wanted to be well ahead. Connie, sunburnt and handsome, sat in silence, forgetting all about the landscape.
`A little dull for you, going back to Wragby,' said her father, noticing her glumness11.
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glumness
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privately
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entirely
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manly
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compassion
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n.同情,怜悯 | |
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honourable
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bully
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bullying
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bloody
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doom
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doomed
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raving
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misery
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possessed
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humility
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spunk
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绞( wring的过去式和过去分词 ); 握紧(尤指别人的手); 把(湿衣服)拧干; 绞掉(水) | |
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