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CHAPTER XVI THE PARTICULAR INCIDENT
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Betty Vanderpoel's walk back to Stornham did not, long though it was, give her time to follow to its end the thread of her thoughts. Mentally she walked again with her uncommunicative guide, through woodpaths and gardens, and stood gazing at the great blind-faced house. She had not given the man more than an occasional glance until he had told her his name. She had been too much absorbed, too much moved, by what she had been seeing. She wondered, if she had been more aware of him, whether his face would have revealed a great deal. She believed it would not. He had made himself outwardly stolid1. But the thing must have been bitter. To him the whole story of the splendid past was familiar even if through his own life he had looked on only at gradual decay. There must be stories enough of men and women who had lived in the place, of what they had done, of how they had loved, of what they had counted for in their country's wars and peacemakings, great functions and law-building. To be able to look back through centuries and know of one's blood that sometimes it had been shed in the doing of great deeds, must be a thing to remember. To realise that the courage and honour had been lost in ignoble2 modern vices3, which no sense of dignity and reverence4 for race and name had restrained—must be bitter—bitter! And in the role of a servant to lead a stranger about among the ruins of what had been—that must have been bitter, too. For a moment Betty felt the bitterness of it herself and her red mouth took upon itself a grim line. The worst of it for him was that he was not of that strain of his race who had been the “bad lot.” The “bad lot” had been the weak lot, the vicious, the self-degrading. Scandals which had shut men out from their class and kind were usually of an ugly type. This man had a strong jaw5, a powerful, healthy body, and clean, though perhaps hard, eyes. The First Man of them, who hewed6 his way to the front, who stood fierce in the face of things, who won the first lands and laid the first stones, might have been like him in build and look.
“It's a disgusting thing,” she said to herself, “to think of the
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stolid
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| adj.无动于衷的,感情麻木的 | |
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| adj.不光彩的,卑鄙的;可耻的 | |
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| 缺陷( vice的名词复数 ); 恶习; 不道德行为; 台钳 | |
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| n.敬畏,尊敬,尊严;Reverence:对某些基督教神职人员的尊称;v.尊敬,敬畏,崇敬 | |
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receding
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| adj.无节制的;过度的 | |
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mellowing
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| 软化,醇化 | |
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uneven
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sustenance
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| n.食物,粮食;生活资料;生计 | |
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| n.(食物)调料;包扎伤口的用品,敷料 | |
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| 弄皱( ruffle的现在分词 ); 弄乱; 激怒; 扰乱 | |
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yearning
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humbleness
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savage
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decency
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| 防止,避免( avert的过去式和过去分词 ); 转移 | |
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| n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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| 怀念地,思慕地,同情地; 渴 | |
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| vi.碎裂,崩溃;vt.弄碎,摧毁 | |
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delightfully
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hysterical
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| adj.情绪异常激动的,歇斯底里般的 | |
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perfectly
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delirious
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| adj.不省人事的,神智昏迷的 | |
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fixed
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temperament
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sobbing
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undo
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| vt.解开,松开;取消,撤销 | |
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sanity
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| n.心智健全,神智正常,判断正确 | |
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unreasonable
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musingly
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hideous
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| (嗓音)颤抖( falter的过去式和过去分词 ); 支吾其词; 蹒跚; 摇晃 | |
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illuminating
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incongruity
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arraigned
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grievance
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hawk
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bribe
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soothing
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injustice
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expediency
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veins
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dowdy
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villain
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