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Letter 23
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Southampton, February 8.
... Our garden is putting in order by a man who bears a remarkably1 good character, has a very fine complexion2, and asks something less than the first. The shrubs3 which border the gravel4 walk, he says, are only sweetbrier and roses, and the latter of an indifferent sort; we mean to get a few of a better kind, therefore, and at my own particular desire he procures5 us some syringas. I could not do without a syringa, for the sake of Cowper's line. We talk also of a laburnum. The border under the terrace wall is clearing away to receive currants and gooseberry bushes, and a spot is found very proper for raspberries.
The alterations6 and improvements within doors, too, advance very properly, and the offices will be made very convenient indeed. Our dressing-table is constructing on the spot, out of a large kitchen table belonging to the house, for doing which we have the permission of Mr. Husket, Lord Lansdown's painter,—domestic painter, I should call him, for he lives in the castle. Domestic chaplains have given way to this more necessary office, and I suppose whenever the walls want no touching7 up he is employed about my lady's face.
The morning was so wet that I was afraid we[95] should not be able to see our little visitor; but Frank, who alone could go to church, called for her after service, and she is now talking away at my side and examining the treasures of my writing-desk drawers,—very happy, I believe. Not at all shy, of course. Her name is Catherine, and her sister's Caroline. She is something like her brother, and as short for her age, but not so well-looking.
What is become of all the shyness in the world? Moral as well as natural diseases disappear in the progress of time, and new ones take their place. Shyness and the sweating sickness have given way to confidence and paralytic
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v.(努力)取得, (设法)获得( procure的第三人称单数 );拉皮条 | |
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n.改动( alteration的名词复数 );更改;变化;改变 | |
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touching
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paralytic
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adj. 瘫痪的 n. 瘫痪病人 | |
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astonishment
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trifling
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mischief
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unnatural
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brutal
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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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bonnets
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n.童帽( bonnet的名词复数 );(烟囱等的)覆盖物;(苏格兰男子的)无边呢帽;(女子戴的)任何一种帽子 | |
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