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"Very fine indeed," said Miss Crawford, laughing. "It must do the heads of the family a great deal of good to force all the poor housemaids and footmen to leave business and pleasure, and say their prayers here twice a day, while they are inventing excuses themselves for staying away."
"_That_ is hardly Fanny's idea of a family assembling," said Edmund. "If the master and mistress do _not_ attend themselves, there must be more harm than good in the custom."
"At any rate, it is safer to leave people to their own devices on such subjects. Everybody likes to go their own way--to chuse their own time and manner of devotion. The obligation of attendance, the formality, the restraint, the length of time--altogether it is a formidable thing, and what nobody likes; and if the good people who used to kneel and gape29 in that gallery could have foreseen that the time would ever come when men and women might lie another ten minutes in bed, when they woke with a headache, without danger of reprobation30, because chapel was missed, they would have jumped with joy and envy. Cannot you imagine with what unwilling31 feelings the former belles32 of the house of Rushworth did many a time repair to this chapel? The young Mrs. Eleanors and Mrs. Bridgets-- starched33 up into seeming piety34, but with heads full of something very different--especially if the poor chaplain were not worth looking at--and, in those days, I fancy parsons were very inferior even to what they are now."
For a few moments she was unanswered. Fanny coloured and looked at Edmund, but felt too angry for speech; and he needed a little recollection before he could say, "Your lively mind can hardly be serious even on serious subjects. You have given us an amusing sketch35, and human nature cannot say it was not so. We must all feel _at_ _times_ the difficulty of fixing our thoughts as we could wish; but if you are supposing it a frequent thing, that is to say, a weakness grown into a habit from neglect, what could be expected from the _private_ devotions of such persons? Do you think the minds which are suffered, which are indulged in wanderings in a chapel, would be more collected in a closet?"
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n.便餐;整理 | |
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n.优雅;优美,雅致;精致,巧妙 | |
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判断( judgment的名词复数 ); 鉴定; 评价; 审判 | |
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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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gilding
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carving
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prospect
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chapel
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spacious
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profusion
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n. (席位间的)通道, 侧廊 | |
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(作者)题词( inscription的名词复数 ); 献词; 碑文; 证劵持有人的登记 | |
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n.小教堂, (医院、监狱等的)附属礼拜堂( chapel的名词复数 );(在小教堂和附属礼拜堂举行的)礼拜仪式 | |
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acquiescence
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clergy
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junction
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n.连接,接合;交叉点,接合处,枢纽站 | |
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shrubs
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inclination
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dispersed
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capabilities
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consultation
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participation
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penance
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miserable
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adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的 | |
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joyfully
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regularity
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refreshment
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guardianship
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metropolis
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refinement
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repartee
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abominable
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