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CHAPTER 34 RED GODWYN
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Stornham Court had taken its proper position in the county as a place which was equal to social exchange in the matter of entertainment. Sir Nigel and Lady Anstruthers had given a garden party, according to the decrees of the law obtaining in country neighbourhoods. The curiosity to behold1 Miss Vanderpoel, and the change which had been worked in the well-known desolation and disrepair, precluded2 the possibility of the refusal of any invitations sent, the recipient3 being in his or her right mind, and sound in wind and limb. That astonishing things had been accomplished4, and that the party was a successful affair, could not but be accepted as truths. Garden parties had been heard of, were a trifle repetitional, and even dull, but at this one there was real music and real dancing, and clever entertainments were given at intervals5 in a green-embowered little theatre, erected6 for the occasion. These were agreeable additions to mere7 food and conversation, which were capable of palling8.
To the garden party the Anstruthers did not confine themselves. There were dinner parties at Stornham, and they also were successful functions. The guests were of those who make for the success of such entertainments.
“I called upon Mount Dunstan this afternoon,” Sir Nigel said one evening, before the first of these dinners. “He might expect it, as one is asking him to dine. I wish him to be asked. The Dunholms have taken him up so tremendously that no festivity seems complete without him.”
He had been invited to the garden party, and had appeared, but Betty had seen little of him. It is easy to see little of a guest at an out-of-door festivity. In assisting Rosalie to attend to her visitors she had been much occupied, but she had known that she might have seen more of him, if he had intended that it should be so. He did not—for reasons of his own—intend that it should be so, and this she became aware of. So she walked, played in the
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behold
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precluded
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recipient
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accomplished
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intervals
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| n.[军事]间隔( interval的名词复数 );间隔时间;[数学]区间;(戏剧、电影或音乐会的)幕间休息 | |
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palling
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bowling
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dressing
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derisive
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sniff
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aspirant
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enjoyment
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brazen
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brazenness
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lashes
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sweeping
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perfectly
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inevitable
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awakened
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royalty
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plethora
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consensus
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decency
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conversed
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solitude
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doctrine
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perspicacity
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disdained
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| 鄙视( disdain的过去式和过去分词 ); 不屑于做,不愿意做 | |
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obstinacy
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grotesque
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dinning
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meek
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humble
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shrine
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naught
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possessed
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passionate
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relinquish
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savage
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barbarian
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| 处女( maiden的名词复数 ); 少女; 未婚女子; (板球运动)未得分的一轮投球 | |
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