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Letter 30
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Castle Square, Tuesday (December 27).
My dear Cassandra,—I can now write at leisure and make the most of my subjects, which is lucky, as they are not numerous this week.
Our house was cleared by half-past eleven on Saturday, and we had the satisfaction of hearing yesterday that the party reached home in safety soon after five.
I was very glad of your letter this morning; for, my mother taking medicine, Eliza keeping her bed with a cold, and Choles not coming, made us rather dull and dependent on the post. You tell me much that gives me pleasure, but I think not much to answer. I wish I could help you in your needlework. I have two hands and a new thimble that lead a very easy life.
Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her first marriage been of affection, or had there been a grown-up single daughter, I should not have forgiven her; but I consider everybody as having a right to marry once in their lives for love, if they can, and provided she will now leave off having bad headaches and being pathetic, I can allow her, I can wish her, to be happy.
Do not imagine that your picture of your tête-à-tête with Sir B. makes any change in our expectations here; he could not be really reading,[128] though he held the newspaper in his hand; he was making up his mind to the deed, and the manner of it. I think you will have a letter from him soon.
I heard from Portsmouth yesterday, and as I am to send them more clothes, they cannot be expecting a very early return to us. Mary's face is pretty well, but she must have suffered a great deal with it; an abscess was formed and opened.
Our evening party on Thursday produced nothing more remarkable1 than Miss Murden's coming too, though she had declined it absolutely in the morning, and sitting very ungracious and very silent with us from seven o'clock till half after eleven, for so late was it, owing to the chairmen, before we got rid of them.
The last hour, spent in yawning and shivering in a wide circle round the fire, was dull enough, but the tray had admirable success. The widgeon and the preserved ginger2 were as delicious as one could wish. But as to our black butter, do not decoy anybody to Southampton by such a lure3, for it is all gone. The first pot was opened when Frank and Mary were here, and proved not at all what it ought to be; it was neither solid nor entirely
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adj.显著的,异常的,非凡的,值得注意的 | |
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ginger
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n.姜,精力,淡赤黄色;adj.淡赤黄色的;vt.使活泼,使有生气 | |
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lure
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n.吸引人的东西,诱惑物;vt.引诱,吸引 | |
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entirely
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ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地 | |
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ascertained
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v.弄清,确定,查明( ascertain的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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ascertainment
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n.探查,发现,确认 | |
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vi.膨胀,肿胀;增长,增强 | |
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cannon
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n.大炮,火炮;飞机上的机关炮 | |
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lodge
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v.临时住宿,寄宿,寄存,容纳;n.传达室,小旅馆 | |
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captious
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adj.难讨好的,吹毛求疵的 | |
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affix
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n.附件,附录 vt.附贴,盖(章),签署 | |
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extravagant
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adj.奢侈的;过分的;(言行等)放肆的 | |
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intimacy
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n.熟悉,亲密,密切关系,亲昵的言行 | |
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remarkably
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ad.不同寻常地,相当地 | |
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speculation
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n.思索,沉思;猜测;投机 | |
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