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The floors of the Reynolds Galleries were covered with some hundreds of very well-dressed and very expensively-dressed women and some scores of men. The walls were covered with a loan collection of oil-paintings, water-colour drawings, and etchings—English and French, but chiefly English. A very large proportion of the pictures were portraits of women done by a select group of very expensive painters in the highest vogue1. These portraits were the main attraction of the elegant crowd, which included many of the sitters; as for the latter, they failed to hide under an unconvincing mask of indifference2 their curiosity as to their own effectiveness in a frame.
The portraits for the most part had every quality save that of sincerity3. They were transcendantly adroit4 and they reeked5 of talent. They were luxurious6, refined, sensual, titillating7, exquisite8, tender, compact, of striking poses and subtle new tones. And while the heads were well finished and instantly recognisable as likenesses, the impressionism of the hands and of the provocative9 draperies showed that the artists had fully10 realised the necessity of being modern. The mischief11 and the damnation were that the sitters liked them because they produced in the sitters the illusion that the sitters were really what the sitters wanted to be, and what indeed nearly every woman in the galleries wanted to be; and the ideal of the sitters was a low ideal. The portraits flattered; but only a few guessed that they flattered
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champagne
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deception
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ordeal
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condescend
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immortal
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everlasting
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serene
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marred
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untoward
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conceal
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v.隐藏,隐瞒,隐蔽 | |
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dubious
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equanimity
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considerably
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legendary
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agitation
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vein
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imminent
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confidential
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apprehension
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astounding
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desolating
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毁坏( desolate的现在分词 ); 极大地破坏; 使沮丧; 使痛苦 | |
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folly
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peculiar
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saluting
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phantom
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