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CHAPTER 45 THE PASSING BELL
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The following morning Sir Nigel did not appear at the breakfast table. He breakfasted in his own room, and it became known throughout the household that he had suddenly decided1 to go away, and his man was packing for the journey. What the journey or the reason for its being taken happened to be were things not explained to anyone but Lady Anstruthers, at the door of whose dressing2 room he appeared without warning, just as she was leaving it.
Rosalie started when she found herself confronting him. His eyes looked hot and hollow with feverish3 sleeplessness4.
“You look ill,” she exclaimed involuntarily. “You look as if you had not slept.”
“Thank you. You always encourage a man. I am not in the habit of sleeping much,” he answered. “I am going away for my health. It is as well you should know. I am going to look up old Broadmorlands. I want to know exactly where he is, in case it becomes necessary for me to see him. I also require some trifling5 data connected with Ffolliott. If your father is coming, it will be as well to be able to lay my hands on things. You can explain to Betty. Good-morning.” He waited for no reply, but wheeled about and left her.
Betty herself wore a changed face when she came down. A cloud had passed over her blooming, as clouds pass over a morning sky and dim it. Rosalie asked herself if she had not noticed something like this before. She began to think she had. Yes, she was sure that at intervals6 there had been moments when she had glanced at the brilliant face with an uneasy and yet half-unrealising sense of looking at a glowing light temporarily waning7. The feeling had been unrealisable, because it was not to be explained. Betty was never ill, she was never low-spirited, she was never out of humour or afraid of things—that was why it was so wonderful to live with her. But—yes, it was true—there had been days when the strong, fine light of her had
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feverish
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sleeplessness
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trifling
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stiffen
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contrive
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dreary
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scarlet
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defiantly
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amber
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awakening
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shuffled
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rheumatism
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hip
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fumbling
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chuckling
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shamefully
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hearth
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luxuriously
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lighting
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gentry
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shrill
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| (声音)尖锐的,刺耳的,高频率的( shrill的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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appreciation
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| n.评价;欣赏;感谢;领会,理解;价格上涨 | |
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feverishly
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rattle
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hop
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transacted
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flannels
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| 法兰绒男裤; 法兰绒( flannel的名词复数 ) | |
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radius
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| n.半径,半径范围;有效航程,范围,界限 | |
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impetus
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joint
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promptly
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hoard
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ammunition
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confidentially
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exclamation
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deftly
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wrestled
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admiration
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reigned
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appreciative
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gratitude
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obstinacy
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apron
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salute
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royalty
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