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VI. Old Man Shaw’s Girl
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“Day after to-morrow—day after to-morrow,” said Old Man Shaw, rubbing his long slender hands together gleefully. “I have to keep saying it over and over, so as to really believe it. It seems far too good to be true that I’m to have Blossom again. And everything is ready. Yes, I think everything is ready, except a bit of cooking. And won’t this orchard1 be a surprise to her! I’m just going to bring her out here as soon as I can, never saying a word. I’ll fetch her through the spruce lane, and when we come to the end of the path I’ll step back casual-like, and let her go out from under the trees alone, never suspecting. It’ll be worth ten times the trouble to see her big, brown eyes open wide and hear her say, ‘Oh, daddy! Why, daddy!’”
He rubbed his hands again and laughed softly to himself. He was a tall, bent2 old man, whose hair was snow white, but whose face was fresh and rosy3. His eyes were a boy’s eyes, large, blue and merry, and his mouth had never got over a youthful trick of smiling at any provocation4—and, oft-times, at no provocation at all.
To be sure, White Sands people would not have given you the most favourable5 opinion in the world of Old Man Shaw. First and foremost, they would have told you that he was “shiftless,” and had let his bit of a farm run out while he pottered with flowers and bugs6, or rambled7 aimlessly about in the woods, or read books along the shore. Perhaps it was true; but the old farm yielded him a living, and further than that Old Man Shaw had no ambition. He was as blithe8 as a pilgrim on a pathway climbing to the west. He had learned the rare secret that you must take happiness when you find it—that there is no use in marking the place and coming back to it at a more convenient season, because it will not be there then. And it is very easy to be happy if you know, as Old Man Shaw most
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orchard
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n.果园,果园里的全部果树,(美俚)棒球场 | |
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adj.赞成的,称赞的,有利的,良好的,顺利的 | |
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adj.疯狂的,发疯的n.窃听器( bug的名词复数 );病菌;虫子;[计算机](制作软件程序所产生的意料不到的)错误 | |
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blithe
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plantation
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crest
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smothered
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(使)窒息, (使)透不过气( smother的过去式和过去分词 ); 覆盖; 忍住; 抑制 | |
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judgment
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fleeting
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关于( pertain的过去式和过去分词 ); 有关; 存在; 适用 | |
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delightful
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glamour
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succumb
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fragrance
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stylish
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swell
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vi.膨胀,肿胀;增长,增强 | |
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perfectly
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adv.完美地,无可非议地,彻底地 | |
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miserable
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adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的 | |
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sarcasm
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n.讥讽,讽刺,嘲弄,反话 (adj.sarcastic) | |
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possessed
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shrugged
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kindly
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dealing
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ominously
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orbs
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abbr.off-reservation boarding school 在校寄宿学校n.球,天体,圆形物( orb的名词复数 ) | |
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passionately
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malicious
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adj.有恶意的,心怀恶意的 | |
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warped
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adj.反常的;乖戾的;(变)弯曲的;变形的v.弄弯,变歪( warp的过去式和过去分词 );使(行为等)不合情理,使乖戾, | |
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abode
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sagging
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下垂[沉,陷],松垂,垂度 | |
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orchards
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(通常指围起来的)果园( orchard的名词复数 ) | |
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chafe
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curt
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immoral
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amazement
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benediction
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forage
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cram
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chalice
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