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CHAPTER XXIV — A ROMANCE OF TWO OLD MAIDS AND A STOUT BACHELOR
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Came Gavinia, a burgess of the besieged1 city, along the south shore of the Silent Pool. She was but a maid seeking to know what love might be, and as she wandered on, she nibbled2 dreamily at a hot sweet-smelling bridie, whose gravy3 oozed4 deliciously through a bursting paper-bag.
It was a fit night for dark deeds.
"Methinks she cometh to her damn!"
The speaker was a masked man who had followed her—he was sniffing5 ecstatically—since she left the city walls.
She seemed to possess a charmed life. He would have had her in Shovel6 Gorge7, but just then Ronny-On's Jean and Peter Scrymgeour turned the corner.
Suddenly Gavinia felt an exquisite9 thrill: a man was pursuing her. She slipped the paper-bag out of sight, holding it dexterously10 against her side with her arm, so that the gravy should not spurt11 out, and ran. Lights flashed, a kingly voice cried "Now!" and immediately a petticoat was flung over her head. (The Lady Griselda looked thin that evening.)
Gavinia was dragged to the Lair12, and though many a time they bumped her, she still tenderly nursed the paper-bag with her arm, or fondly thought she did so, for when unmuffled she discovered that it had been removed, as if by painless surgery. And her captors' tongues were
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besieged
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包围,围困,围攻( besiege的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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n.探查法v.以鼻吸气,嗅,闻( sniff的现在分词 );抽鼻子(尤指哭泣、患感冒等时出声地用鼻子吸气);抱怨,不以为然地说 | |
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loyalty
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distress
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maiden
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n.少女,处女;adj.未婚的,纯洁的,无经验的 | |
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gauger
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magenta
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primness
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vehemently
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tarn
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torment
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