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CHAPTER 33 FOR LADY JANE
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There is no one thing on earth of such interest as the study of the laws of temperament1, which impel2, support, or entrap3 into folly4 and danger the being they rule. As a child, not old enough to give a definite name to the thing she watched and pondered on, in child fashion, Bettina Vanderpoel had thought much on this subject. As she had grown older, she had never been ignorant of the workings of her own temperament, and she had looked on for years at the laws which had wrought5 in her father's being—the laws of strength, executive capacity, and that pleasure in great schemes, which is roused less by a desire for gain than for a strongly-felt necessity for action, resulting in success. She mentally followed other people on their way, sometimes asking herself how far the individual was to be praised or blamed for his treading of the path he seemed to choose. And now there was given her the opportunity to study the workings of the nature of Nigel Anstruthers, which was a curious thing.
He was not an individual to be envied. Never was man more tormented7 by lack of power to control his special devil, at the right moment of time, and therefore, never was there one so inevitably8 his own frustration9. This Betty saw after the passing of but a few days, and wondered how far he was conscious or unconscious of the thing. At times it appeared to her that he was in a state of unrest—that he was as a man wavering between lines of action, swayed at one moment by one thought, at another by an idea quite different, and that he was harried11 because he could not hold his own with himself.
This was true. The ball at Dunholm Castle had been enlightening, and had wrought some changes in his points of view. Also other factors had influenced him. In the first place, the changed atmosphere of Stornham, the fitness and luxury of his surroundings, the new dignity given to his position by the altered aspect of things, rendered external
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folly
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frustration
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amiability
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saluted
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stimulating
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flirtation
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awakened
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annoyance
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piquancy
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obstinate
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haughty
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conversed
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carnation
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decided
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dignified
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embroidery
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interferes
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conceit
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wholesale
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equilibrium
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brilliance
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humiliate
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inadequacy
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speculation
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peril
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orphans
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robust
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| adj.被欺负了v.恐吓,威逼( bully的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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