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CHAPTER XVI—Dealing with that which was done in the Panelled Parlour
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He followed her to the Panelled Parlour, the one to which she had taken Osmonde on the day of their bliss1, the one in which in the afternoon she received those who came to pay court to her over a dish of tea. In the mornings none entered it but herself or some invited guest. ’Twas not the room she would have chosen for him; but when he said to her, “’Twere best your ladyship took me to some private place,” she had known there was no other so safe.
When the door was closed behind them, and they stood face to face, they were a strange pair to behold2—she with mad defiance3 battling with mad despair in her face; he with the mocking which every woman who had ever trusted him or loved him had lived to see in his face when all was lost. Few men there lived who were as vile4 as he, his power of villainy lying in that he knew not the meaning of man’s shame or honour.
“Now,” she said, “tell me the worst.”
“’Tis not so bad,” he answered, “that a man should claim his own, and swear that no other man shall take it from him. That I have sworn, and that I will hold to.”
“My own, since I can keep it,” quoth he. “Before you were my Lord of Dunstanwolde’s you were mine—of your own free will.”
“Nay6, nay,” she cried. “God! through some madness I knew not the awfulness of—because I was so young and had known naught7 but evil—and you were so base and wise.”
“Was your ladyship an innocent?” he answered. “It seemed not so to me.”
“An innocent of all good,” she cried—“of all things good on earth—of all that I know now, having seen manhood and honour.”
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bliss
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| n.狂喜,福佑,天赐的福 | |
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defiance
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villain
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nay
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virtue
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brook
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shriek
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| vi.胡言乱语;热衷谈论;n.热情赞扬 | |
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disdain
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shrieking
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gasped
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monstrous
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accusation
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tryst
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puffs
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| 手持着使用(武器、工具等)( wield的过去式和过去分词 ); 具有; 运用(权力); 施加(影响) | |
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dominion
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barter
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oozed
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frenzied
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delirium
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| n. 神智昏迷,说胡话;极度兴奋 | |
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chatter
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| vi./n.喋喋不休;短促尖叫;(牙齿)打战 | |
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| adj.可怕的;令人惊恐的;恐怖的;极讨厌的 | |
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mouldering
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crouched
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sneered
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sneer
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rigid
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bosom
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bruised
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quelled
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swell
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engulf
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doomed
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doom
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corpse
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ordained
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bray
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sneering
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passionately
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unnatural
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