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CHAPTER XXVI “WHAT IT MUST BE TO YOU—JUST YOU!”
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G. Selden, awakening1 to consciousness two days later, lay and stared at the chintz covering of the top of his four-post bed through a few minutes of vacant amazement2. It was a four-post bed he was lying on, wasn't it? And his leg was bandaged and felt unmovable. The last thing he remembered was going down an incline in a tree-bordered avenue. There was nothing more. He had been all right then. Was this a four-post bed or was it not? Yes, it was. And was it part of the furnishings of a swell3 bedroom—the kind of bedroom he had never been in before? Tip top, in fact? He stared and tried to recall things—but could not, and in his bewilderment exclaimed aloud.
“Well,” he said, “if this ain't the limit! You may search ME!”
A respectable person in a white apron4 came to him from the other side of the room. It was Buttle's wife, who had been hastily called in.
“Sh—sh,” she said soothingly5. “Don't you worry. Nobody ain't goin' to search you. Nobody ain't. There! Sh, sh, sh,” rather as if he were a baby. Beginning to be conscious of a curious sense of weakness, Selden lay and stared at her in a helplessness which might have been considered pathetic. Perhaps he had got “bats in his belfry,” and there was no use in talking.
At that moment, however, the door opened and a young lady entered. She was “a looker,” G. Selden's weakness did not interfere6 with his perceiving. “A looker, by gee7!” She was dressed, as if for going out, in softly tinted8, exquisite9 things, and a large, strange hydrangea blue flower under the brim of her hat rested on soft and full black hair. The black hair gave him a clue. It was hair like that he had seen as Reuben S. Vanderpoel's daughter rode by when he stood at the park gates at Mount Dunstan. “Bats in his belfry,” of course.
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awakening
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amazement
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swell
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apron
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spoke
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inquiry
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delirious
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exclamation
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delirium
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eyelids
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luxurious
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linen
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lame
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Vogue
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discomforts
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impersonal
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gateway
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indifference
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feverish
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grassy
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robin
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trotting
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| 小跑,急走( trot的现在分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走 | |
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hoofs
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hustling
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bunk
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runaway
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gratitude
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rambling
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fumbled
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alignment
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