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CHAPTER 16. Nobody’s Weakness
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The time being come for the renewal1 of his acquaintance with the Meagles family, Clennam, pursuant to contract made between himself and Mr Meagles within the precincts of Bleeding Heart Yard, turned his face on a certain Saturday towards Twickenham, where Mr Meagles had a cottage-residence of his own. The weather being fine and dry, and any English road abounding2 in interest for him who had been so long away, he sent his valise on by the coach, and set out to walk. A walk was in itself a new enjoyment3 to him, and one that had rarely diversified4 his life afar off.
He went by Fulham and Putney, for the pleasure of strolling over the heath. It was bright and shining there; and when he found himself so far on his road to Twickenham, he found himself a long way on his road to a number of airier and less substantial destinations. They had risen before him fast, in the healthful exercise and the pleasant road. It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing5 upon something. And he had plenty of unsettled subjects to meditate6 upon, though he had been walking to the Land’s End.
First, there was the subject seldom absent from his mind, the question, what he was to do henceforth in life; to what occupation he should devote himself, and in what direction he had best seek it. He was far from rich, and every day of indecision and inaction made his inheritance a source of greater anxiety to him. As often as he began to consider how to increase this inheritance, or to lay it by, so often his misgiving7 that there was some one with an unsatisfied claim upon his justice, returned; and that alone was a subject to outlast8 the longest walk. Again, there was the subject of his relations with his mother, which were now upon an equable and peaceful but never
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1 renewal | |
adj.(契约)延期,续订,更新,复活,重来 | |
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3 enjoyment | |
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8 outlast | |
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柔软; 灵活; 易弯曲; 顺从 | |
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37 picturesque | |
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47 discord | |
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51 hospitable | |
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52 relish | |
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61 migratory | |
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62 WHIMS | |
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63 dwelling | |
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64 amiable | |
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65 antiquities | |
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67 morsels | |
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70 veal | |
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72 moorish | |
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96 exalted | |
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97 depressed | |
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