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CHAPTER XXVI OF COURSE
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Orissa did fly the next day, as she had declared she would. The morning papers were full of her achievement, with columns of enthusiastic praise for her beauty, her daring, her modesty1 and skill. The attempt of a rival aëroplane to interfere2 with her flight and her clever rescue of her enemy when he came to grief made a popular heroine of the girl, yet no one seemed to know the true history of the astonishing affair. The Tribune had glowing accounts of the day’s events from the pen of Mr. H. Chesterton Radley-Todd, but this astute3 correspondent refrained from making “a scoop,” as he might have done had he bared his knowledge of the conspiracy4 that ended with Orissa Kane’s aërial adventure.
One of the other papers suspected Burthon of being the instigator5 of the wicked plot to wreck6 Miss Kane’s airship and, discovering the fact that he had fled from the city, openly accused him. Tyler could not be found, either, for the little ex-chauffeur 223had wisely “skipped the town” and his former haunts knew him no more.
The judges awarded the Kane Aircraft the ten thousand dollar prize, and singularly enough not a word of protest came from the competing aviators8. Those who had attended the meet the day before, and thousands who read of Orissa Kane in the newspapers, eagerly assembled at Dominguez to witness her further exhibitions on the next day. It was estimated that fully9 fifty thousand people were in attendance, and when the Kane Aircraft appeared, decked with gay banners and ribbons, and made a short flight above the field, the girl aviator7 met with a reception such as has never before been equaled in the annals of aviation.
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modesty
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| n.谦逊,虚心,端庄,稳重,羞怯,朴素 | |
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interfere
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astute
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conspiracy
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instigator
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wreck
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aviator
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| n.飞行家,飞行员 | |
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| 飞机驾驶员,飞行员( aviator的名词复数 ) | |
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gracefully
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tithe
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humble
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eulogy
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excellence
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appreciation
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perfectly
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sublime
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conceited
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intimacy
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bulwark
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levity
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amazement
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infancy
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advertising
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bliss
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juncture
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gush
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| v.喷,涌;滔滔不绝(说话);n.喷,涌流;迸发 | |
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musingly
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emolument
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thoroughly
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prone
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dignified
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