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VIII. Green Island
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ONE MORNING, very early, I heard Mrs. Todd in the garden outside my window. By the unusual loudness of her remarks to a passer-by, and the notes of a familiar hymn1 which she sang as she worked among the herbs, and which came as if directed purposely to the sleepy ears of my consciousness, I knew that she wished I would wake up and come and speak to her.
In a few minutes she responded to a morning voice from behind the blinds. “I expect you're goin' up to your schoolhouse to pass all this pleasant day; yes, I expect you're goin' to be dreadful busy,” she said despairingly.
“Perhaps not,” said I. “Why, what's going to be the matter with you, Mrs. Todd?” For I supposed that she was tempted2 by the fine weather to take one of her favorite expeditions along the shore pastures to gather herbs and simples, and would like to have me keep the house.
“No, I don't want to go nowhere by land,” she answered gayly,—“no, not by land; but I don't know's we shall have a better day all the rest of the summer to go out to Green Island an' see mother. I waked up early thinkin' of her. The wind's light northeast,—'twill take us right straight out, an' this time o' year it's liable to change round southwest an' fetch us home pretty, 'long late in the afternoon. Yes, it's goin' to be a good day.”
“Speak to the captain and the Bowden boy, if you see anybody going by toward the landing,” said I. “We'll take the big boat.”
“Oh, my sakes! now you let me do things my way,” said Mrs. Todd scornfully. “No, dear, we won't take no big bo't. I'll just git a handy dory, an' Johnny Bowden an' me, we'll man her ourselves. I don't want no abler bo't than a good dory, an' a nice light breeze ain't goin' to make no sea; an' Johnny's my cousin's son,—mother'll like to have him come; an' he'll be down to the herrin' weirs4 all the time we're there, anyway; we don't want to carry no men folks havin' to be considered every minute an' takin' up all our time. No, you let me do; we'll just slip out an' see mother by ourselves. I guess what breakfast you'll want's about ready now.”
I had become well acquainted with Mrs. Todd as landlady6, herb-gatherer, and
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hymn
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| n.赞美诗,圣歌,颂歌 | |
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tempted
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weir
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weirs
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landlady
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rustic
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mariner
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wharf
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adviser
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oar
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allusion
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chuckle
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resolutely
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delightful
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sparse
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bleated
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| 怀恨(grudge的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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spoke
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standing
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beacon
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doorway
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leech
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cove
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indifference
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| 小跑,急走( trot的现在分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走 | |
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mite
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| n.极小的东西;小铜币 | |
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scooped
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ascending
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eastward
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velvet
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icebergs
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hospitably
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| 亲切地,招待周到地,善于款待地 | |
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diligent
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tangled
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impulsively
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proprieties
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admiration
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humbly
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bouquets
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bleak
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parlor
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affront
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| 龙虾( lobster的名词复数 ); 龙虾肉 | |
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