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On calling at Earwaker’s chambers1 one February evening, Malkin became aware, from the very threshold of the outer door, that the domicile was not as he had known it. With the familiar fragrance3 of Earwaker’s special ‘mixture’ blended a suggestion of new upholstery. The little vestibule had somehow put off its dinginess4, and an unwontedly brilliant light from the sitting-room5 revealed changes of the interior which the visitor remarked with frank astonishment6.
‘What the deuce! Has it happened at last? Are you going to be married?’ he cried, staring about him at unrecognised chairs, tables, and bookcases, at whitened ceiling and pleasantly papered walls, at pictures and ornaments7 which he knew not.
The journalist shook his head, and smiled contentedly8.
‘An idea that came to me all at once. My editorship seemed to inspire it.’
After a year of waiting upon Providence9, Earwaker had received the offer of a substantial appointment much more to his taste than those he had previously10 held. He was now literary editor of a weekly review which made no kind of appeal to the untaught multitude.
‘I have decided11 to dwell here for the rest of my life,’ he added, looking round the walls. ‘One must have a homestead, and this shall be mine; here I have set up my penates. It’s a portion of space, you know; and what more can be said of Longleat or Chatsworth? A house I shall never want, because I shall never have a wife. And on the whole I prefer this situation to any other. I am well within reach of everything urban that I care about, and as for the country, that is too good to be put to common use; let it be kept for holiday. There’s an atmosphere in the old Inns that pleases me. The new flats are insufferable. How can one live sandwiched between a music-hall singer and a female politician? For

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n.房间( chamber的名词复数 );(议会的)议院;卧室;会议厅 | |
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n.(BrE)客厅,起居室 | |
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providence
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ace
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habitually
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spat
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countenance
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civilisation
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repented
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exclamation
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dame
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perfectly
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conversed
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affected
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censure
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catastrophe
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killing
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farce
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pester
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promising
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vilely
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abominable
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eyebrows
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abruptly
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defective
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appreciation
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frantically
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entangled
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adj.卷入的;陷入的;被缠住的;缠在一起的v.使某人(某物/自己)缠绕,纠缠于(某物中),使某人(自己)陷入(困难或复杂的环境中)( entangle的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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calamity
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mere
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tack
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deficient
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conceal
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folly
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passionate
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discretion
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demolished
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hoarsely
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steamship
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