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CHAPTER VIII WINSTON COMES TO SILVERDALE
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There was warmth and brightness in the cedar-boarded general room of Silverdale Grange, and most of the company gathered there basked1 in it contentedly2 after their drive through the bitter night. Those who came from the homesteads lying farthest out had risked frost-nipped hands and feet, for when Colonel Barrington held a levee at the Grange nobody felt equal to refusing his invitation. Neither scorching4 heat nor utter cold might excuse compliance5 with the wishes of the founder6 of Silverdale, and it was not until Dane, the big middle-aged7 bachelor, had spoken very plainly, that he consented to receive his guests in time of biting frost dressed otherwise than as they would have appeared in England.
Dane was the one man in the settlement who dare remonstrate9 with its ruler, but it was a painful astonishment10 to the latter when he said in answer to one invitation, "I have never been frost-bitten, sir, and I stand the cold well, but one or two of the lads are weak in the chest, and this climate was never intended for bare-shouldered women. Hence, if I come, I shall dress myself to suit it."
Colonel Barrington stared at him for almost a minute, and then shook his head. "Have it your own way," he said. "Understand that in itself I care very little for dress, but it is only by holding fast to every traditional nicety we can prevent ourselves sinking into Western barbarism, and I am horribly afraid of the thin end of the wedge."
Dane having gained his point said nothing further, for he was one of the wise and silent men who know when to stop, and that evening he sat in a corner watching his leader thoughtfully, for there was anxiety in the Colonel's face. Barrington sat silent near the ample
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astonishment
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disdain
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deference
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adornment
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comeliness
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jealousy
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embroidered
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velvet
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redeeming
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comely
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attire
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trespassing
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gasp
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清除(政敌等)( purge的过去式和过去分词 ); 涤除(罪恶等); 净化(心灵、风气等); 消除(错事等)的不良影响 | |
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scant
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边( margin的名词复数 ); 利润; 页边空白; 差数 | |
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laborious
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steadily
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discredit
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vt.使不可置信;n.丧失信义;不信,怀疑 | |
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winced
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premature
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toiler
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brokers
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determined
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poker
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exclamation
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