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CHAPTER 17 HOW TOMMY SAVED THE FLAG
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He loved at last, but had no time to exult1 just now, for he could not rejoice with Tommy while his dear one drooped2 in shame. Ah, so well he understood that she believed she had done the unpardonable thing in woman, and that while she thought so she must remain a broken column. It was a great task he saw before him—nothing less than to make her think that what she had done was not shameful3, but exquisite4; that she had not tarnished5 the flag of love, but glorified6 it. Artfulness, you will see, was needed; but, remember, he was now using all his arts in behalf of the woman he loved.
"You were so long in coming back to me, Grizel. The agony of it!" "Did it seem long?" She spoke7 in a trembling voice, hiding her face in him. She listened like one anxious to seize his answer as it left his heart.
"So long," he answered, "that it seemed to me we must be old when we met again. I saw a future without you stretching before me to the grave, and I turned and ran from it."
"That is how I felt," she whispered.
"What else could have made me come?"
"I thought it was pity that had brought you—pity for me, Grizel. I thought you had perhaps come back to be angry with me—"
"How could I be!" she cried.
"How could you help it, rather?" said he. "I was cruel, Grizel; I spoke like a fool as well as like a dastard9
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v.狂喜,欢腾;欢欣鼓舞 | |
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弯曲或下垂,发蔫( droop的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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