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CHAPTER 49 AT STORNHAM AND AT BROADMORLANDS
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The exulting1 wind had swept the clouds away, and the moon rode in a dark blue sea of sky, making the night light purely2 clear, when they drew a little apart, that they might better see the wonderfulness in each other's faces. It was so mysteriously great a thing that they felt near to awe3.
“I fought too long. I wore out my body's endurance, and now I am quaking like a boy. Red Godwyn did not begin his wooing like this. Forgive me,” Mount Dunstan said at last.
“Do you know,” with lovely trembling lips and voice, “that for long—long—you have been unkind to me?”
It was merely human that he should swiftly enfold her again, and answer with his lips against her cheek.
“Unkind! Unkind! Oh, the heavenly woman's sweetness of your telling me so—the heavenly sweetness of it!” he exclaimed passionately4 and low. “And I was one of those who are 'by the roadside everywhere,' an unkempt, raging beggar, who might not decently ask you for a crust.”
“It was all wrong—wrong!” she whispered back to him, and he poured forth6 the tenderest, fierce words of confession7 and prayer, and she listened, drinking them in, with now and then a soft sob8 pressed against the roughness of the enrapturing9 tweed. For a space they had both forgotten her hurt, because there are other things than terror which hypnotise pain. Mount Dunstan was to be praised for remembering it first. He must take her back to Stornham and her sister without further delay.
“I will put your saddle on Anstruthers' horse, or mine, and lift you to your seat. There is a
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exulting
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confession
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luxurious
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physically
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swelling
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gulf
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reverent
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hearty
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dignified
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humiliation
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gullible
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harried
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shrieking
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skull
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wails
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haughty
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saluted
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monarch
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encompass
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immorality
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relentlessly
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savage
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exonerating
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adroitly
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suavity
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conjecture
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hermit
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torment
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inadequately
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deserted
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eyebrows
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| 眉毛( eyebrow的名词复数 ) | |
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