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CHAPTER III
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Consideration for poor Lady Verinder forbade me even to hint that I had guessed the melancholy1 truth, before she opened her lips. I waited her pleasure in silence; and, having privately2 arranged to say a few sustaining words at the first convenient opportunity, felt prepared for any duty that could claim me, no matter how painful it might be.
“I have been seriously ill, Drusilla, for some time past,” my aunt began. “And, strange to say, without knowing it myself.”
I thought of the thousands and thousands of perishing human creatures who were all at that moment spiritually ill, without knowing it themselves. And I greatly feared that my poor aunt might be one of the number. “Yes, dear,” I said, sadly. “Yes.”
“I brought Rachel to London, as you know, for medical advice,” she went on. “I thought it right to consult two doctors.”
Two doctors! And, oh me (in Rachel’s state), not one clergyman! “Yes, dear?” I said once more. “Yes?”
“One of the two medical men,” proceeded my aunt, “was a stranger to me. The other had been an old friend of my husband’s, and had always felt a sincere interest in me for my husband’s sake. After prescribing for Rachel, he said he wished to speak to me privately in another room. I expected, of course, to receive some special directions for the management of my daughter’s health. To my surprise, he took me gravely by the hand, and said, ‘I have been looking at you, Lady Verinder, with a professional as well as a personal interest. You are, I am afraid, far more urgently in need of medical advice than your daughter.’ He put some questions to me, which I was at first inclined to treat lightly enough, until I observed that my answers distressed3 him. It ended in his making an appointment to come and see me, accompanied by a medical friend, on the next day, at an hour when Rachel would not be at home. The result of that visit—most kindly4 and gently conveyed to me—satisfied both the physicians that there had been precious time lost, which could never be regained5, and that my case had now passed beyond the reach of their art. For more than two years I have been suffering under an
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melancholy
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distressed
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mischief
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Christian
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gush
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devout
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utterly
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fervently
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adv.热烈地,热情地,强烈地 | |
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plying
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exhortation
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n.劝告,规劝 | |
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alas
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int.唉(表示悲伤、忧愁、恐惧等) | |
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purely
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adv.纯粹地,完全地 | |
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possessed
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fortify
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promising
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humbly
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adv. 恭顺地,谦卑地 | |
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recording
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n.录音,记录 | |
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prodigality
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prodigal
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tract
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wretch
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n.可怜的人,不幸的人;卑鄙的人 | |
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consternation
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profane
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exclamations
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solicitor
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n.初级律师,事务律师 | |
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pecuniary
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legacy
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motive
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drawn
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scoffer
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meditative
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allude
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alluded
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innocence
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accomplishment
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castigation
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viler
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testimony
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discomfiture
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n.崩溃;大败;挫败;困惑 | |
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lodges
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intelligible
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spoke
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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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conceit
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sergeant
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cuff
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pointed
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illustrate
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v.举例说明,阐明;图解,加插图 | |
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agitation
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disappearance
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overthrown
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adj. 打翻的,推倒的,倾覆的 动词overthrow的过去分词 | |
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scruple
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assailed
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v.攻击( assail的过去式和过去分词 );困扰;质问;毅然应对 | |
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irritably
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ad.易生气地 | |
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abominable
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adj.可厌的,令人憎恶的 | |
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scrupled
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infamy
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conceal
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perfectly
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plunged
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v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 );暴跌;骤降;突降 | |
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conjecture
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credible
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mere
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perversity
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intruding
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steadily
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justify
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creditors
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prospect
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fathom
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monstrous
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slur
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exhausted
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narrative
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rendering
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essentially
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confession
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