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If it be true that time and tide wait for no man, it is equally true, we rejoice to know, that authors and readers have a corresponding immunity1 from shackles2, and are in nowise bound to wait for time or tide.
We therefore propose to leave the Gull-stream light, and the Goodwin sands, and the sloop3 Nora, far behind us, and, skipping a little in advance of Time itself proceed at once to Yarmouth.
Here, in a snug4 parlour, in an easy chair, before a cheerful fire, with a newspaper in his hand, sat a bluff5 little elderly gentleman, with a bald head and a fat little countenance6, in which benignity7 appeared to hold perpetual though amicable8 rivalry9 with fun.
That the fat little elderly gentleman was eccentric could scarcely be doubted, because he not only looked over his spectacles instead of through them, but also, apparently10, read his newspaper upside down. A closer inspection11, however, would have shown that he was not reading the paper at all, but looking over the top of it at an object which accounted for much of the benignity, and some of the fun of his expression.
At the opposite side of the table sat a very beautiful girl, stooping over a book, and so earnestly intent thereon as to be evidently quite
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手铐( shackle的名词复数 ); 脚镣; 束缚; 羁绊 | |
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inspection
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celestial
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vigour
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melancholy
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adoration
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alloy
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complexion
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rosy
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pouting
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thoroughly
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salmon
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pussy
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bliss
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wont
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retired
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Christian
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mischief
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giggler
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possessed
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physically
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squeaked
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v.短促地尖叫( squeak的过去式和过去分词 );吱吱叫;告密;充当告密者 | |
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poetically
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gushing
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sanitary
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discord
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solely
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disposition
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luminary
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seaman
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