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CHAPTER III—Wherein Sir Jeoffry’s boon companions drink a toast
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Her beauty of face, her fine body, her strength of limb, and great growth for her age, would have pleased him if she had possessed1 no other attraction, but the daring of her fury and her stable-boy breeding so amused him and suited his roystering tastes that he took to her as the finest plaything in the world.
He set her on the floor, forgetting his coursing, and would have made friends with her, but at first she would have none of him, and scowled2 at him in spite of all he did. The brandy by this time had mounted to his head and put him in the mood for frolic, liquor oftenest making him gamesome. He felt as if he were playing with a young dog or marking the spirit of a little fighting cock. He ordered the servants back to their kitchen, who stole away, the women amazed, and the men concealing3 grins which burst forth4 into guffaws5 of laughter when they came into their hall below.
“’Tis as we said,” they chuckled6. “He had but to see her beauty and find her a bigger devil than he, and ’twas done. The mettle7 of her—damning and flogging him! Never was there a finer sight! She feared him no more than if he had been a spaniel—and he roaring and laughing till he was like to burst.”
“Dost know who I am?” Sir Jeoffry was asking the child, grinning himself as he stood before her where she sat on the oaken settle on which he had lifted her.
“No,” quoth little Mistress, her black brows drawn8 down, her handsome owl’s eyes verily seeming to look him through and through in search of somewhat; for, in sooth, her rage abating
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possessed
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| 怒视,生气地皱眉( scowl的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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concealing
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guffaws
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| 轻声地笑( chuckle的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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mettle
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abating
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| 减少( abate的现在分词 ); 减去; 降价; 撤消(诉讼) | |
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jovial
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braggart
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| n.吹牛者;adj.吹牛的,自夸的 | |
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wilt
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majesty
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gravel
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fretted
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| 焦躁的,附有弦马的,腐蚀的 | |
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standing
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bent
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fumbling
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| n. 摸索,漏接 v. 摸索,摸弄,笨拙的处理 | |
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caress
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bridle
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swelled
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| 增强( swell的过去式和过去分词 ); 肿胀; (使)凸出; 充满(激情) | |
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misgiving
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wondrous
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sullen
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exultation
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reins
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| 感情,激情; 缰( rein的名词复数 ); 控制手段; 掌管; (成人带着幼儿走路以防其走失时用的)保护带 | |
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exultant
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trot
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gallop
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groom
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boisterous
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abides
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chambers
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amber
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romped
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bestowing
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| 砖窑中砖堆上层已烧透的砖 | |
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gentry
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guzzling
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boon
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thigh
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begot
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bumper
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whim
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fabric
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linen
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slippers
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ruffles
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embroidered
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scarlet
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paraphernalia
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premature
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flout
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disdain
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bullied
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wielded
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infancy
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varied
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perseverance
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shrieking
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defiance
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vivacity
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admiration
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amazement
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languisher
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