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CHAPTER II SIR SIMON GORE
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Avarice, according to Byron, is a gentlemanly vice1 appertaining to old age. It certainly acted like Aaron's rod with Sir Simon, as it swallowed up all his more youthful sins. During the early part of the Victorian epoch2, the old man had been a spendthrift and a rake. Now, he never looked agreeably upon a woman, and the prettier they were the more he frowned upon them. As he was close upon eighty, it was not to be wondered at that his blood ran thin and cold; still, he might have retained the courtesy for which he was famous in his hot youth. But he eschewed3 female society in the main, and was barely civil to his pretty, fascinating niece, who attended to him and bore with his ill-humors. Only Mrs. Gilroy succeeded in extorting4 civil words from him, but then Mrs. Gilroy was necessary to his comfort, being a capital nurse and as quiet as a cat about the house. Where his own pleasure was concerned Sir Simon could be artful.
Long ago he had given up luxury. He never put liquor to his withered5 lips, he ate only the plainest food, and surrounded himself with merely the bare necessities of life. All his aims were to gather money, to see it increase, to buy land, to screw the last penny out of unwilling6 tenants7, and to pick up a farthing, in whatever mud it might be lying. He never helped the poor, he grudged9 repairs to the property, he kept Lucy on short commons, and expressed such violent opinions concerning the rector's tithes10 that the poor man was afraid to come near him. As Sir Simon, like a godless old pagan, never went to church, the absence of the clerical element at the Hall troubled him little. He was a typical
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v.敲诈( extort的现在分词 );曲解 | |
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adj. 枯萎的,干瘪的,(人身体的部分器官)因病萎缩的或未发育良好的 动词wither的过去式和过去分词形式 | |
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怀恨(grudge的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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n.(宗教捐税)什一税,什一的教区税,小部分( tithe的名词复数 ) | |
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garb
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seclusion
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housekeeper
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retirement
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accurately
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exterior
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veneer
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antiquity
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feline
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meekness
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pauper
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(=skillful)adj.灵巧的,熟练的 | |
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autocrat
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n.独裁者;专横的人 | |
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reiterating
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反复地说,重申( reiterate的现在分词 ) | |
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irritably
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ad.易生气地 | |
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eloquent
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liking
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收紧( tighten的过去式和过去分词 ); (使)变紧; (使)绷紧; 加紧 | |
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astute
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abruptly
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pensively
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outspoken
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assented
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同意,赞成( assent的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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displeased
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accounting
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fixed
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rascal
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讥笑,冷笑( sneer的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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considerably
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countenance
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v.俯就,屈尊;堕落,丢丑 | |
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