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CHAPTER 33 AGUILAR’S DOUBLE LIFE
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Madame Piriac came down into the saloon the next afternoon.
“Oh! You are still hiding yourself here!” she murmured gaily1 to Audrey, who was alone among the cushions.
“I was just resting,” said Audrey. “Remember what a night we had!”
It was true that the yacht had not been berthed2 at Lousey Hard until between two and three o’clock in the morning, and that no guest had slept until after the job was done, though more than one had tried to sleep. It was also true that in consequence the saloon breakfast had been abrogated3, that even the saloon lunch lacked vicacity, and that at least one passenger was at that moment dozing4 in his cabin. But not on account of fatigue5 and somnolence6 was Audrey remaining in the saloon instead of taking the splendid summer afternoon on deck under the awning7. She felt neither tired nor sleepy. The true secret was that she feared the crowd of village idlers, quidnuncs, tattlers and newsmongers who all day gazed from Lousey Hard at the wonder-yacht.
Examining the line of faces as well as she could through portholes, she recognised nearly every one of them, and was quite sure that every one of them would recognise her face. To go ashore8 or to stay prominently on deck would, therefore, be to give away her identity and to be forced, sooner or later, to admit that she had practised a long and naughty deception9. She could conceive some of those villagers greeting her loudly from the Hard if she should appear; for Essex manners were marked by strange freedoms. Her situation would be terrible. It, in fact, was terrible. Risks surrounded her like angry dogs. Musa, for example, ought surely to have noticed that the
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gaily
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adv.欢乐地,高兴地 | |
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v.停泊( berth的过去式和过去分词 );占铺位 | |
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v.打瞌睡,假寐 n.瞌睡 | |
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deception
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briefly
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retired
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draught
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sincerity
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simplicity
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adv.极度渴望地,绝望地,孤注一掷地 | |
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ingenuousness
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descend
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affront
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artistic
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juncture
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mutual
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straightforward
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admiration
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flair
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apparently
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