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CHAPTER 33 — THERE IS SOME ONE TO LOVE GRIZEL AT LAST
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Corp was sitting on the Monypenny dyke1, spitting on a candlestick and then rubbing it briskly against his orange-colored trousers. The doctor passing in his gig, both of them streaked2, till they blended, with the mud of Look-about-you road (through which you should drive winking3 rapidly all the way), saw him and drew up.
"Well, how is Grizel?" he asked. He had avoided Double Dykes4 since the funeral, but vain had been his attempts to turn its little inmate5 out of his mind; there she was, against his will, and there, he now admitted to himself angrily or with a rueful sigh, she seemed likely to remain until someone gave her a home. It was an almost ludicrous distrust of himself that kept him away from her; he feared that if he went to Double Dykes her lonely face would complete his conquest. For oh, he was reluctant to be got the better of, as he expressed it to himself. Maggy Ann, his maid, was the ideal woman for a bachelor's house. When she saw him coming she fled, guiltily concealing7 the hated duster; when he roared at her for announcing that dinner was ready, she left him to eat it half cold; when he spilled matches on the floor and then stepped upon them and set the rug on fire, she let him tell her that she should be more careful; she did not carry off his favorite boots to the cobbler because they were down at heel; she did not fling up her arms in horror and cry that she had brushed that coat just five minutes ago; nor did she count the treasured "dottels" on the mantelpiece to discover how many pipes he had smoked since morning; nor point out that he had stepped over the door-mat; nor line her shelves with the new Mentor8; nor give him up his foot for sitting half the night with patients who could not pay—in short, he knew the ways of the limmers, and Maggy Ann was a jewel. But it had taken him a dozen years to bring her to this perfection, and well he knew that the curse of Eve, as he called the rage for the duster,
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dyke
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n.堤,水坝,排水沟 | |
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n.瞬眼,目语v.使眼色( wink的现在分词 );递眼色(表示友好或高兴等);(指光)闪烁;闪亮 | |
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abbr.diagonal wire cutters 斜线切割机n.堤( dyke的名词复数 );坝;堰;沟 | |
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微睡,睡眠(slumber的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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(使)作汽笛声响,作汽车喇叭声( hoot的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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ecstasy
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n.狂喜,心醉神怡,入迷 | |
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vile
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adj.卑鄙的,可耻的,邪恶的;坏透的 | |
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