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"Oh! Here's the paper, Mrs. Maldon," said Rachel, as, turning away to leave the room, she caught sight of the extra special edition of the Signal, which lay a pale green on the dark green of the Chesterfield.
Mrs. Maldon answered placidly—
"When did you bring it in? I never heard the boy come. But my hearing's not quite what it used to be, that's true. Open it for me, my dear. I can't stretch my arms as I used to."
She was one of the few women in the Five Towns who deigned1 to read a newspaper regularly, and one of the still fewer who would lead the miscellaneous conversation of drawing-rooms away from domestic chatter2 and discussions of individualities, to political and municipal topics and even toward general ideas. She seldom did more than mention a topic and then express a hope for the best, or explain that this phenomenon was "such a pity," or that phenomenon "such a good thing," or that about another phenomenon "one really didn't know what to think." But these remarks sufficed to class her apart among her sex as "a very up-to-date old lady, with a broad outlook upon the world," and to inspire sundry3 other ladies with a fearful respect for her masculine intellect and judgment4. She was aware of her superiority, and had a certain kind disdain5 for the increasing number of women who took in a daily picture-paper, and who, having dawdled6 over its illustrations after breakfast, spoke7 of what they had seen in the "newspaper." She would not allow that a picture-paper was a newspaper.
Rachel stood in the empty space under the gas. Her arms were stretched out and slightly upward as she held the Signal wide open and glanced at the newspaper, frowning. The light fell full on her coppery hair. Her balanced body, though masked in front by the
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fortitude
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strictly
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porcelain
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plumbing
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lighting
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mansion
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v.喷出,涌出;滔滔不绝地讲;n.喷管;水柱 | |
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prodigious
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adj.惊人的,奇妙的;异常的;巨大的;庞大的 | |
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expenditures
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intonation
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eyelid
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n.眼睑,眼皮 | |
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aged
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inciting
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刺激的,煽动的 | |
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advertising
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n.广告业;广告活动 a.广告的;广告业务的 | |
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obituary
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deference
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peculiar
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condemn
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savagely
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mere
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inquisitive
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steadily
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