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CHAPTER IV—Lord Twemlow’s chaplain visits his patron’s kinsman, and Mistress Clorinda shines on her
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Uncivilised and almost savage1 as her girlish life was, and unregulated by any outward training as was her mind, there were none who came in contact with her who could be blind to a certain strong, clear wit, and unconquerableness of purpose, for which she was remarkable2. She ever knew full well what she desired to gain or to avoid, and once having fixed3 her mind upon any object, she showed an adroitness4 and brilliancy of resource, a control of herself and others, the which there was no circumventing5. She never made a blunder because she could not control the expression of her emotions; and when she gave way to a passion, ’twas because she chose to do so, having naught6 to lose, and in the midst of all their riotous7 jesting with her the boon8 companions of Sir Jeoffry knew this.
“Had she a secret to keep, child though she is,” said Eldershawe, “there is none—man or woman—who could scare or surprise it from her; and ’tis a strange quality to note so early in a female creature.”
She spent her days with her father and his dissolute friends, treated half like a boy, half a fantastical queen, until she was fourteen. She hunted and coursed, shot birds, leaped hedges and ditches, reigned9 at the riotous feastings, and coquetted with these mature, and in some cases elderly, men, as if she looked forward to doing naught else all her life.
But one day, after she had gone out hunting with her father, riding Rake, who had been given to her, and wearing her scarlet
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savage
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| adj.野蛮的;凶恶的,残暴的;n.未开化的人 | |
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muster
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| v.看,注视( behold的过去式和过去分词 );瞧;看呀;(叙述中用于引出某人意外的出现)哎哟 | |
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| adj.谦卑的,恭顺的;地位低下的;v.降低,贬低 | |
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kinsman
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exhort
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blasphemy
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countenance
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| n.敬畏,尊敬,尊严;Reverence:对某些基督教神职人员的尊称;v.尊敬,敬畏,崇敬 | |
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| (笨拙地)摸索或处理(某事物)( fumble的过去式和过去分词 ); 乱摸,笨拙地弄; 使落下 | |
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modesty
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lamely
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dishonour
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follies
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| 罪恶,时事讽刺剧; 愚蠢,蠢笨,愚蠢的行为、思想或做法( folly的名词复数 ) | |
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pate
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hoops
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| n.箍( hoop的名词复数 );(篮球)篮圈;(旧时儿童玩的)大环子;(两端埋在地里的)小铁弓 | |
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begot
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sweeping
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whit
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| 搭扣,扣环( buckle的名词复数 ) | |
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haughty
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| 起誓,发誓(vow的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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majesty
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