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CHAPTER XXXV "RILLA-MY-RILLA!"
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Carl Meredith and Miller1 Douglas came home just before Christmas and Glen St. Mary met them at the station with a brass2 band borrowed from Lowbridge and speeches of home manufacture. Miller was brisk and beaming in spite of his wooden leg; he had developed into a broad-shouldered, imposing3 looking fellow and the D. C. Medal he wore reconciled Miss Cornelia to the shortcomings of his pedigree to such a degree that she tacitly recognized his engagement to Mary.
The latter put on a few airs—especially when Carter Flagg took Miller into his store as head clerk—but nobody grudged4 them to her.
"Of course farming's out of the question for us now," she told Rilla, "but Miller thinks he'll like storekeeping fine once he gets used to a quiet life again, and Carter Flagg will be a more agreeable boss than old Kitty. We're going to be married in the fall and live in the old Mead5 house with the bay windows and the mansard roof. I've always thought that the handsomest house in the Glen, but never did I dream I'd ever live there. We're only renting it, of course, but if things go as we expect and Carter Flagg takes Miller into partnership6 we'll own it some day. Say, I've got on some in society, haven't I, considering what I come from? I never aspired7 to being a storekeeper's wife. But Miller's real ambitious and he'll have a wife that'll back him up. He says he never saw a French girl worth looking at twice and that his heart beat true to me every moment he was away."
Jerry Meredith and Joe Milgrave came back in January, and all winter the boys from the Glen and its environs came home by twos and threes. None of them came back just as they went away, not even those who had been so fortunate as to escape injury.
One spring day, when the daffodils were blowing on the Ingleside lawn, and the banks of the
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adj.使人难忘的,壮丽的,堂皇的,雄伟的 | |
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怀恨(grudge的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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n.蜂蜜酒 | |
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lieutenant
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使变得年轻,使恢复活力( rejuvenate的现在分词 ) | |
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(因极度痛苦而)扭动或翻滚( writhe的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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绞( wring的过去式和过去分词 ); 握紧(尤指别人的手); 把(湿衣服)拧干; 绞掉(水) | |
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