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CHAPTER VII. THE GARDEN OF HESPERIDES.
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"In a garden fair you met me,
Then, in case you might forget me,
"Love had captive to you brought me,
For I felt his arrow's smart;
So in mercy quick you sought me,
And bestowed on me a heart."
Oh, wonderful! wonderful! and thrice wonderful was the soul of Vicar Clendon seeing that in this mummified body, battered4 by the assaults of sixty years, it still kept itself fresh and green in the very heyday5 of perennial6 youth. In spite of his grubbing among dusty books; in spite of the hardening process of continually celebrating marriages; in spite of the pessimistic ideas which come with old age, he could still feel sympathetic thrills when he heard the sighings of two lone7 lovers. He should have frowned and looked askance on such youthful foolery; he should have forgotten the days when Plancus was consul8, and he wooed Amaryllis with bashful courtesy; he should have preached sermons a mile long on the sin of going to the temple of Venus, but, strange to tell, he did not. This withered9 old husk encased a fresh young soul, and the venerable clergyman felt a boyish pleasure in the courting of these young men. Is the age of miracles past, when such things can happen--when sober age can sympathize with frolic youth without pointing out the follies10 of the world, as seen telescopically from a distance of sixty years? No! oh, no! in spite of cynicism, and pessimism
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困境( woe的名词复数 ); 悲伤; 我好苦哇; 某人就要倒霉 | |
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赠给,授予( bestow的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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lark
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manor
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profusion
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变为深红色(crimson的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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scarlet
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reposeful
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prevailing
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petals
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streaked
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spotted
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tints
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caressingly
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爱抚地,亲切地 | |
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