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CHAPTER II A MEETING WITH AN OLD FRIEND
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The day of the excursion to Northampton was one of those clear mornings when a light frost turned the maples1 to vermilion and in a single night transformed the ripening2 summer foliage3 to the splendor4 of autumn. The Tolman family were in the highest spirits; it was not often that Mr. Tolman could be persuaded to leave his business and steal away for a week-end and when he did it was always a cause for great rejoicing. Doris, elated at the prospect5 of rejoining her college friends, was also in the happiest frame of mind and tripped up and down stairs, collecting her forgotten possessions and jamming them into her already bulging6 suitcase.
As for Steve, the prickings of conscience that had at first tormented7 him and made him shrink from being left alone with his father had quite vanished. He had argued himself into a state of mental tranquility where further punishment for his misdemeanor seemed superfluous8. After his hairbreadth escape from disaster there was no danger, he argued, of his repeating the experiment, and was not this the very lesson all punishments
sought to instill? If he had achieved this result without bothering his father about the details, why so much the better. Did not the old adage9 say that "experience is the best teacher"? Certainly in this case the maxim10 held true.
Having thus excused his under-handedness and stifled11 the protests of his better nature he felt, or tried to feel,
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foliage
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splendor
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prospect
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bulging
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tormented
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superfluous
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| (使)窒息, (使)窒闷( stifle的过去式和过去分词 ); 镇压,遏制; 堵 | |
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conceal
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scarlet
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anticipation
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pouted
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sophomore
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mischievous
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grimace
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saucy
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velvet
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frivolous
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triumphantly
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automobile
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spun
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lessened
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sufficiently
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consternation
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investigation
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| 补充( replenish的过去式和过去分词 ); 重新装满 | |
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dilemma
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solicitous
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procure
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| vt.获得,取得,促成;vi.拉皮条 | |
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throb
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confession
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stunned
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reassuringly
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plight
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manly
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mischief
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kindly
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nervously
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subsided
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annoyance
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forth
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exclamation
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bent
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appalling
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extricate
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inconvenient
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reiterated
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snob
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lamely
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jawing
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