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CHAPTER 3 THE LEGACY
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Audrey and Miss Ingate were in the late Mathew Moze’s study, fascinated—as much unconsciously as consciously—by the thing which since its owner’s death had grown every hour more mysterious and more formidable—the safe. It was a fine afternoon. The secondary but still grandiose1 enigma2 of the affair, Mr. Cowl, could be heard walking methodically on the gravel3 in the garden. Mr. Cowl was the secretary of the National Reformation Society.
“He’s gone somewhere else,” said Audrey.
“I’m so relieved,” said Miss Ingate. “I hope he’s gone a long way off.”
“Are you?” murmured Audrey, with an air of surprised superiority.
But in secret Audrey felt just as relieved as Miss Ingate, despite the fact that, her mother being prostrate6, she was the mistress of the situation, and could have ordered Mr. Cowl to leave, with the certainty of being obeyed. She was astonished at her illogical sensations, and she had been frequently so astonished in the previous four days.
For example, she was free; she knew that she could impose herself on her mother; never again would she be the slave of an unreasoning tyrant7; yet she was gloomy and without hope. She had hated the unreasoning tyrant; yet she felt very sorry for him because he was dead. And though she felt very sorry for him, she detested8 hearing the panegyrics9 upon him of the village, and particularly of those persons with whom he had quarrelled; she actually stopped Miss Ingate in the midst of an
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dread
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fowl
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apparently
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deference
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yearned
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渴望,切盼,向往( yearn的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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cowardice
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admiration
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conceal
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costly
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chestnut
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alluring
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justified
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solicitor
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ironic
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apprehension
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discreet
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sinister
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simplicity
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pallid
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maturity
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ingenuous
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ominous
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trotted
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小跑,急走( trot的过去分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走 | |
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pointed
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peculiar
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bent
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sarcastic
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benevolently
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slit
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lining
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beheld
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fumbling
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precisely
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impatience
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legacies
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imperturbably
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sardonically
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eavesdropping
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horrid
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embryonic
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jig
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