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CHAPTER II.IN THE WOOD.
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Miss Greeby swung along towards her destination with a masculine stride and in as great a hurry as though she had entered herself for a Marathon race. It was a warm, misty1 day, and the pale August sunshine radiated faintly through the smoky atmosphere. Nothing was clear-cut and nothing was distinct, so hazy3 was the outlook. The hedges were losing their greenery and had blossomed forth4 into myriad5 bunches of ruddy hips6 and haws, and the usually hard road was soft underfoot because of the penetrating7 quality of the moist air. There was no wind to clear away the misty greyness, but yellow leaves without its aid dropped from the disconsolate8 trees. The lately-reaped fields, stretching on either side of the lane down which the lady was walking, presented a stubbled expanse of brown and dim gold, uneven9 and distressful10 to the eye. The dying world was in ruins and Nature had reduced herself to that necessary chaos11, out of which, when the coming snow completed its task, she would build a new heaven and a new earth.
An artist might have had some such poetic12 fancy, and would certainly have looked lovingly on the alluring13 colors and forms of decay. But Miss Greeby was no artist, and prided herself upon being an aggressively matter-of-fact young woman. With her big boots slapping the ground and her big hands thrust into the pockets of her mannish jacket, she
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abbr.high impact polystyrene 高冲击强度聚苯乙烯,耐冲性聚苯乙烯n.臀部( hip的名词复数 );[建筑学]屋脊;臀围(尺寸);臀部…的 | |
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rustic
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guardians
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fragrant
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scented
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carnations
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