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WHEN the mail got successfully to Dover, in the course of the forenoon, the head drawer at the Royal George Hotel opened the coach-door as his custom was. He did it with some flourish of ceremony, for a mail journey from London in winter was an achievement to congratulate an adventurous1 traveller upon.
By that time, there was only one adventurous traveller left to be congratulated; for the two others had been set down at their respective roadside destinations. The mildewy2 inside of the coach, with its damp and dirty straw, its disagreeable smell, and its obscurity, was rather like a larger dog-kennel. Mr. Lorry, the passenger, shaking himself out of it in chains of straw, a tangle3 of shaggy wrapper, flapping hat, and muddy legs, was rather like a larger sort of dog.
`There will be a packet to Calais, to-morrow, drawer'
`Yes, sir, if the weather holds and the wind sets tolerable fair. The tide will serve pretty nicely at about two in the afternoon, sir.Bed, sir'
`I shall not go to bed till night; but I want a bedroom and a barber.'
`And then breakfast, sir? Yes, sir. That way, sir, if you please. Show Concord4! Gentleman's valise and hot water to Concord. Pull off gentleman's boots in Concord. (You will find a fine sea-coal fire, sir.) Fetch barber to Concord. Stir about there, now,
for Concord!'
The Concord bed-chamber being always assigned to passenger by the mail, and passengers by the mail being always heavily wrapped up from head to foot, the room ha' the odd interest for the establishment of the Royal George that although but one kind of man was seen to go into it, all kinds and varieties of men came out of it. Consequently another drawer, and two porters, and several maids and the landlady5, were all loitering by accident at various points of the road between the Concord and the coffee-room, when a gentle-man of sixty, formally dressed in a brown suit of clothes, pretty well worn, but very well kept, with large square cuffs6 and large flaps to the pockets, passed along on his way to his breakfast.
The coffee-room had no other occupant, that forenoon, than the gentleman in brown. His breakfast-table was

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adj.爱冒险的;惊心动魄的,惊险的,刺激的 | |
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buckles
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spun
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filaments
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habitually
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confidential
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second-hand
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ward
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wager
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observatory
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marine
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ostrich
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remarkable
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complexion
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n.肤色;情况,局面;气质,性格 | |
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发出隆隆声,发出辘辘声( rumble的过去式和过去分词 ); 轰鸣着缓慢行进; 发现…的真相; 看穿(阴谋) | |
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stolid
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funereal
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penetrate
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orphan
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worthy
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acquit
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vt.宣判无罪;(oneself)使(自己)表现出 | |
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heed
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v.注意,留意;n.注意,留心 | |
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wilfully
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banking
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entirely
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ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地 | |
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curiously
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confidingly
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adv.信任地 | |
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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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pecuniary
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adj.金钱的;金钱上的 | |
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mangle
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vt.乱砍,撕裂,破坏,毁损,损坏,轧布 | |
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flattened
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soothing
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adj.慰藉的;使人宽心的;镇静的 | |
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supplicatory
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agitation
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consignment
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n.寄售;发货;委托;交运货物 | |
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恳求或乞求(某人)( implore的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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clergy
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entreat
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transact
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bonnet
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v.大叫,大喊( bawl的过去式和过去分词 );放声大哭;大声叫出;叫卖(货物) | |
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coaxed
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