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CHAPTER 9 LIFE IN PARIS
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Miss Thompkins and Miss Nickall were a charm to dissipate all the affrighting menace of the city beyond the station. Miss Thompkins had fluffy1 red hair, with the freckles2 which too often accompany red hair, and was addressed as Tommy. Miss Nickall had fluffy grey hair, with warm, loving eyes, and was addressed as Nick. The age of either might have been anything from twenty-four to forty. The one came from Wyoming, the other from Arizona; and it was instantly clear that they were close friends. They had driven up to the terminus before going to a fancy-dress ball to be given that night in the studio of Monsieur Dauphin, a famous French painter and a delightful3 man. They had met Monsieur Dauphin on the previous evening on the terrace of the Café de Versailles, and Monsieur had said, in response to their suggestion, that he would be enchanted4 and too much honoured if they would bring their English friends to his little “leaping"—that was, hop5.
Also they had thought that it would be nice for the travellers to be met at the terminus, especially as Miss Ingate had been very particularly recommended to Miss Thompkins by a whole group of people in London. It was Miss Thompkins who had supplied the address of reliable furnished rooms, and she and Nick would personally introduce the ladies to their landlady6, who was a sweet creature.
Tommy and Nick and Miss Ingate were at once on terms of cordial informality; but the Americans seemed to be a little diffident before the companion. Their voices, at the introduction, had reinforced the surprise of their first glances. “Oh! Mrs. Moncreiff!” The slightest insistence7, no more, on the “Mrs."! Nothing said, but evidently they had expected somebody else!
Then there was the boy, whom they called Musa. He was dark, slim, with timorous
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chromatic
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色彩( tint的名词复数 ); 带白的颜色; (淡色)染发剂; 痕迹 | |
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billiards
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rosiness
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complexions
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肤色( complexion的名词复数 ); 面色; 局面; 性质 | |
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hues
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色彩( hue的名词复数 ); 色调; 信仰; 观点 | |
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ecstasy
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