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CHAPTER 10
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No apartment-house in Zenith had more resolutely1 experimented in condensation2 than the Revelstoke Arms, in which Paul and Zilla Riesling had a flat. By sliding the beds into low closets the bedrooms were converted into living-rooms. The kitchens were cupboards each containing an electric range, a copper4 sink, a glass refrigerator, and, very intermittently5, a Balkan maid. Everything about the Arms was excessively modern, and everything was compressed—except the garages.
The Babbitts were calling on the Rieslings at the Arms. It was a speculative7 venture to call on the Rieslings; interesting and sometimes disconcerting. Zilla was an active, strident, full-blown, high-bosomed blonde. When she condescended8 to be good-humored she was nervously9 amusing. Her comments on people were saltily satiric10 and penetrative of accepted hypocrisies11. “That's so!” you said, and looked sheepish. She danced wildly, and called on the world to be merry, but in the midst of it she would turn indignant. She was always becoming indignant. Life was a plot against her and she exposed it furiously.
She was affable to-night. She merely hinted that Orville Jones wore a toupe, that Mrs. T. Cholmondeley Frink's singing resembled a Ford12 going into high, and that the Hon. Otis Deeble, mayor of Zenith and candidate for Congress, was a flatulent fool (which was quite true). The Babbitts and Rieslings sat doubtfully on stone-hard brocade chairs in the small living-room of the flat, with its mantel unprovided with a fireplace, and its strip of heavy
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connoisseur
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humility
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haughtiness
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vt.打破;vi.爆裂;n.半身像;胸部 | |
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轮廓( silhouette的名词复数 ); (人的)体形; (事物的)形状; 剪影 | |
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