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CHAPTER 28 TWO OF THEM
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When Tommy started impulsively1 on what proved to be his only Continental2 trip he had expected to join Mrs. Jerry and her stepdaughter at Bad-Platten. They had been there for a fortnight, and "the place is a dream," Mrs. Jerry had said in the letter pressing him to come; but it was at St. Gian that she met the diligence and told him to descend3. Bad-Platten, she explained, was a horror.
Her fuller explanation was that she was becoming known there as the round lady.
"Now, am I as round as all that?" she said plaintively4 to Tommy.
"Mrs. Jerry," he replied, with emotion, "you must not ask me what I think of you." He always treated her with extraordinary respect and chivalry5 now, and it awed6 her.
She had looked too, too round because she was in the company of Lady Pippinworth. Everyone seemed to be too round or too large by the side of that gifted lady, who somehow never looked too thin. She knew her power. When there were women in the room whom she disliked she merely went and stood beside them. In the gyrations of the dance the onlooker7 would momentarily lose sight of her; she came and went like a blinking candle. Men could not dance with her without its being said that they were getting stout8. There is nothing they dislike so much, yet they did dance with her. Tommy, having some slight reason, was particularly sensitive about references to his figure, yet it was Lady Pippinworth who had drawn9 him to Switzerland. What was her strange attraction?
Calmly considered, she was
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continental
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chivalry
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n.骑士气概,侠义;(男人)对女人彬彬有礼,献殷勤 | |
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complexion
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entangle
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extricate
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disdain
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rumour
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harry
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sneer
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gallantly
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gallant
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irresistible
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proprieties
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musing
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veranda
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catastrophe
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circumspectly
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heartily
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passionately
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duellist
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thaw
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flicked
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(尤指用手指或手快速地)轻击( flick的过去式和过去分词 ); (用…)轻挥; (快速地)按开关; 向…笑了一下(或瞥了一眼等) | |
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defiantly
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dressing
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glacier
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engrossed
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languishing
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determinedly
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determined
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generosity
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remorsefully
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implore
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distress
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implored
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iceberg
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hauteur
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prettily
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streak
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