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CHAPTER 30. The Word of a Gentleman
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When Mr and Mrs Flintwinch panted up to the door of the old house in the twilight1, Jeremiah within a second of Affery, the stranger started back. ‘Death of my soul!’ he exclaimed. ‘Why, how did you get here?’
Mr Flintwinch, to whom these words were spoken, repaid the stranger’s wonder in full. He gazed at him with blank astonishment3; he looked over his own shoulder, as expecting to see some one he had not been aware of standing4 behind him; he gazed at the stranger again, speechlessly, at a loss to know what he meant; he looked to his wife for explanation; receiving none, he pounced5 upon her, and shook her with such heartiness6 that he shook her cap off her head, saying between his teeth, with grim raillery, as he did it, ‘Affery, my woman, you must have a dose, my woman! This is some of your tricks! You have been dreaming again, mistress. What’s it about? Who is it? What does it mean! Speak out or be choked! It’s the only choice I’ll give you.’
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Supposing Mistress Affery to have any power of election at the moment, her choice was decidedly to be choked; for she answered not a syllable8 to this adjuration9, but, with her bare head wagging violently backwards10 and forwards, resigned herself to her punishment. The stranger, however, picking up her cap with an air of gallantry, interposed.
‘Permit me,’ said he, laying his hand on the shoulder of Jeremiah, who stopped and released his victim. ‘Thank you. Excuse me. Husband and wife I know, from this playfulness. Haha! Always agreeable to see that relation playfully maintained. Listen! May I suggest that somebody up-stairs, in the dark, is becoming energetically curious to know what is going on here?’
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devouring
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吞没( devour的现在分词 ); 耗尽; 津津有味地看; 狼吞虎咽地吃光 | |
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anticipations
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预期( anticipation的名词复数 ); 预测; (信托财产收益的)预支; 预期的事物 | |
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deliberately
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rattled
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disposition
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bumpers
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(汽车上的)保险杠,缓冲器( bumper的名词复数 ) | |
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stolidly
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adv.迟钝地,神经麻木地 | |
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reticent
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adj.沉默寡言的;言不如意的 | |
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v.认真思考,深思熟虑( cogitate的现在分词 ) | |
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