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CHAPTER XVIII MRS. TAMS'S STRANGE BEHAVIOUR
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In the house at Bycars, where he arrived tardily1 after circuitous2 wanderings, Louis first of all dropped the parcel from Faulkner's into the oak chest, raising and lowering the lid without any noise. Once, in the train in Bleakridge tunnel, he had almost thrown the parcel out of the carriage on to the line, as though it were in some subtle way a piece of evidence against him; but, aided by his vanity, he had resisted the impulse. Why, indeed, should he be afraid of a parcel of linen3? Had he not the right to buy linen when and how he chose? Then he removed his hat and coat, hung them carefully in their proper place, smoothed his hair, and walked straight into the parlour. He had a considerable gift of behaving as though nothing out of the ordinary had happened when the contrary was the case. Nobody could have guessed from his features that he was calculating and recalculating the chances of immediate5 imprisonment6, and that each successive calculation disagreed with the previous one; at one moment the chances were less than one in a hundred, less than one in a million; at another they increased and multiplied themselves into tragic7 certainty.
When Rachel heard him in the lobby her sudden tears were tears of joy and deliverance. She did not try to restrain them. As she stole back to her chair she ignored all her reasonings against him, and lived only in the fact that he had returned. And she was triumphant8. She thought: "Now that he is in the house, he is mine. I have him. He cannot escape me. In a caress9 I shall cancel all the past since his accident. So long as I can hold him I don't care." Her soul dissolved in softness towards him; even the body seemed to melt also, till, instead of being a strong, sturdy girl, she was a living
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tardily
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linen
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imprisonment
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endearment
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防止,避免( avert的过去式和过去分词 ); 转移 | |
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profusely
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vivacity
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disappearance
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rehabilitation
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idol
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bliss
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ecstasy
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bosom
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generosity
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utterly
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plaintively
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deliberately
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nervously
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apron
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merged
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