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CHAPTER III. DE HOOGE’S SPRUIT
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In Italy Joy Ogilvie learned to the full, consciously and unconsciously, all the lessons which a younger civilisation1 can learn from an elder. To the sympathetic there are lessons in everything; every spot that a stranger foot has pressed has something to teach. Especially to one coming from the rush of strenuous2 life, which is the note of America, the old-world calm and luxury of repose3 have lessons in toleration which can hardly be otherwise acquired. In the great battle of life we do not match ourselves against individuals but against nations and epochs; and when it is finally borne in on us that others, fashioned as we ourselves and with the same strength and ambitions and limitations, have lived and died and left no individual mark through the gathering4 centuries, we can, without sacrifice of personal pride, be content to humbly5 take each his place.
The month spent at and round Naples had been a never-ending dream of delight; and this period of quiescence6 told on her naturally sensuous7 nature. Already she had accepted the idea of a man worthy8 of love; and the time went to the strengthening of the image. There was a subtle satisfactoriness in the received idea; the wealth of her nature had found a market—of a kind. That is to say: she was satisfied to export, and that was the end of her thoughts—for the present. Importation might come later,
“The mind’s Rialto hath its merchandise.”
None of the family ever alluded10 to Lord Athlyne in the presence of her father. Each in her own way knew that he would not like the idea; and so the secret—it had by this very
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civilisation
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repose
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gathering
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humbly
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quiescence
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sensuous
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reticence
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cryptic
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wane
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cocktail
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recollected
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cocktails
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entreated
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| 恳求,乞求( entreat的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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heartily
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spoke
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| n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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sobbing
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perfectly
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stewardess
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hesitation
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chivalry
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misuse
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honourable
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guardian
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killing
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justification
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pretence
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undoing
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descends
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abominable
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duel
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poker
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deception
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kindly
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impudence
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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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tiresome
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lamentable
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artillery
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entrenched
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disposition
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gallant
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cavalry
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racing
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reined
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| 勒缰绳使(马)停步( rein的过去式和过去分词 ); 驾驭; 严格控制; 加强管理 | |
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chagrin
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mere
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gauge
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folly
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glistening
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reverently
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CHAPTER II. IN ITALY
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