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CHAPTER 28. An Appearance in the Marshalsea
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The opinion of the community outside the prison gates bore hard on Clennam as time went on, and he made no friends among the community within. Too depressed1 to associate with the herd2 in the yard, who got together to forget their cares; too retiring and too unhappy to join in the poor socialities of the tavern3; he kept his own room, and was held in distrust. Some said he was proud; some objected that he was sullen4 and reserved; some were contemptuous of him, for that he was a poor-spirited dog who pined under his debts. The whole population were shy of him on these various counts of indictment5, but especially the last, which involved a species of domestic treason; and he soon became so confirmed in his seclusion6, that his only time for walking up and down was when the evening Club were assembled at their songs and toasts and sentiments, and when the yard was nearly left to the women and children.
Imprisonment7 began to tell upon him. He knew that he idled and moped. After what he had known of the influences of imprisonment within the four small walls of the very room he occupied, this consciousness made him afraid of himself. Shrinking from the observation of other men, and shrinking from his own, he began to change very sensibly. Anybody might see that the shadow of the wall was dark upon him.
One day when he might have been some ten or twelve weeks in jail, and when he had been trying to read and had not been able to release even the imaginary people of the book from the Marshalsea, a footstep stopped at his door, and a hand tapped at it. He arose and opened it, and an agreeable voice accosted8 him with ‘How do you do, Mr Clennam? I hope I am not unwelcome in calling to see you.’
It was the sprightly
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1 depressed | |
adj.沮丧的,抑郁的,不景气的,萧条的 | |
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5 indictment | |
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6 seclusion | |
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9 sprightly | |
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10 retirement | |
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11 circumlocution | |
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17 humbug | |
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18 bowlers | |
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19 lamed | |
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20 sanguine | |
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25 ridicule | |
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27 chaff | |
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28 dismal | |
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29 prospect | |
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32 utterly | |
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34 courteous | |
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36 extol | |
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37 consummate | |
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38 rascal | |
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39 remarkably | |
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40 admiration | |
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48 snobs | |
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51 intrude | |
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52 coaxingly | |
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53 trifling | |
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54 concession | |
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55 insignificant | |
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58 amiable | |
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59 eloquence | |
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60 inclinations | |
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61 standing | |
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63 stupor | |
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64 concealing | |
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65 nettled | |
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67 worthy | |
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68 unwilling | |
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69 exterior | |
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70 abode | |
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71 adviser | |
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88 retired | |
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94 impudent | |
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95 abhorrence | |
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96 bully | |
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100 peremptorily | |
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102 smacking | |
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136 mule | |
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137 drooping | |
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138 beak | |
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139 weird | |
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140 follower | |
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141 insolent | |
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143 wade | |
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144 chagrins | |
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145 gallant | |
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148 lighting | |
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149 exulting | |
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150 smiting | |
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151 affronted | |
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153 benefactor | |
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154 interval | |
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155 boisterously | |
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156 imperturbable | |
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157 contented | |
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159 unwillingly | |
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160 rustily | |
锈蚀地,声音沙哑地 | |
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161 unreasonable | |
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162 descended | |
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163 reptiles | |
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164 inquiry | |
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165 emphatic | |
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166 caustic | |
adj.刻薄的,腐蚀性的 | |
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167 disparagement | |
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168 penitent | |
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adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的 | |
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