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Mr. Bentley had just driven into the yard with the new summer boarder. Mrs. Bentley and Agnes were peeping at her from behind the parlour curtains with the keen interest that they—shut in by their restricted farm life—always felt in any visitor from the outside world lying beyond their boundary of purple misted hills.
Mrs. Bentley was a plump, rosy-cheeked woman with a motherly smile. Agnes was a fair, slim schoolgirl, as tall as her mother, with a sweet face and a promise of peach blossom prettiness in the years to come. The arrival of a summer boarder was a great event in her quiet life.
"Ain't she pretty?" whispered Mrs. Bentley admiringly, as the girl came slowly up the green slope before the house. "I do hope she's nice. You can generally calculate on men boarders, but girls are doubtful. Preserve me from a cranky boarder! I've had enough of them. I kinder like her looks, though."
Ethel Lennox had paused at the front door as Mrs. Bentley and Agnes came into the hall. Agnes gazed at the stranger with shy, unenvious admiration2; the latter stood on the stone step just where the big chestnut3 by the door cast flickering4 gleams and shadows over her dress and shining hair.
She was tall, and gowned in some simple white material that fell about her in graceful5 folds. She wore a cluster of pale pink roses at her belt, and a big, picturesque6 white hat shaded her face and the glossy7, clinging masses of her red hair—hair that was neither auburn nor chestnut but simply red. Nor would anyone have wished it otherwise, having once seen that glorious mass, with all its wonderful possibilities of rippling8 luxuriance.
Her complexion9 was of that perfect, waxen whiteness that goes with
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n.爱好,癖好;adj.弯的;决心的,一心的 | |
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goblet
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helping
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sketch
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n.草图;梗概;素描;v.素描;概述 | |
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shanty
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partnership
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mite
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orchard
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bleached
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velvet
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joyously
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catching
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gulls
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fiery
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deserted
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thither
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skids
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tars
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mellow
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coax
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abruptly
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erect
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steadily
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dreaded
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shrugged
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vt.耸肩(shrug的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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complacently
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adv. 满足地, 自满地, 沾沾自喜地 | |
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untied
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松开,解开( untie的过去式和过去分词 ); 解除,使自由; 解决 | |
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dubiously
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blurred
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v.(使)变模糊( blur的过去式和过去分词 );(使)难以区分;模模糊糊;迷离 | |
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swell
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persistent
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murmur
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sketched
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rattled
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confession
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opposition
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acquiescence
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gall
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covert
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pique
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flirtation
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