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CHAPTER 34 A WAY IS FOUND FOR TOMMY
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The moment for which he had tried to prepare himself was come, and Tommy gulped1 down his courage, which had risen suddenly to his mouth, leaving his chest in a panic. Outwardly he seemed unmoved, but within he was beating to arms. "This is the test of us!" all that was good in him cried as it answered his summons.
They began by shaking hands, as is always the custom in the ring. Then, without any preliminary sparring, Lady Pippinworth immediately knocked him down; that is to say, she remarked, with a little laugh: "How very stout3 you are getting!"
I swear by all the gods that it was untrue. He had not got very stout, though undeniably he had got stouter4. "How well you are looking!" would have been a very ladylike way of saying it, but his girth was best not referred to at all. Those who liked him had learned this long ago, and Grizel always shifted the buttons without comment.
Her malicious5 Ladyship had found his one weak spot at once. He had a reply ready for every other opening in the English tongue, but now he could writhe6 only.
Who would have expected to meet her here? he said at last feebly. She explained, and he had guessed it already, that she was again staying with the Rintouls; the castle, indeed, was not half a mile from where they stood.
"But I think I really came to see you," she informed him, with engaging frankness.
It was very good of her, he intimated stiffly; but the stiffness was chiefly because she was still looking in an irritating way at his waist.
Suddenly she looked up. To Tommy it was as if she had raised the siege. "Why aren't you nice to me?" she asked prettily7.
"I want to be," he replied.
She showed him a way. "When I saw you steaming towards the castle so swiftly," she said, dropping badinage
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v.狼吞虎咽地吃,吞咽( gulp的过去式和过去分词 );大口地吸(气);哽住 | |
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刺,扎,戳( prick的过去式和过去分词 ); 刺伤; 刺痛; 使剧痛 | |
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determinedly
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determined
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