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Leslie Branch was asleep when O'Reilly returned to their room, but he awoke sufficiently1 to listen to the latter's breathless account of the dinner-party.
"I'm rattled," Johnnie confessed. "Why, that girl just bounced right into the middle of everything, and—and I can't bounce her out again."
"You say she's young, and PRETTY, and—RICH?" Leslie was incredulous.
"Y-yes! All of that."
"Why?"
When they're rich they're old and ugly."
"I tell you this girl is young and—stunning."
"Of course she is," Branch agreed, soothingly4. "Now go to sleep and don't think any more about her, there's a good boy! Everything will be all right in the morning. Perhaps it never happened; perhaps you didn't meet any woman at all." The speaker yawned and turned over.
"Don't be an ass," Johnnie cried, impatiently. "What are we going to do with a woman on our hands?"
"WE? Don't divide her with me. What are YOU going to do? The truth is plain, this Miss Evans is in love with you and you don't know it. She sees in you her soul mate. Well, if you don't want her, I want her. I'll eat her medicine. I'll even—marry the poor old soul, if she's rich."
O'Reilly arose early the next morning and hurried down to the office of the Junta5, hoping that he could convince Mr. Enriquez of the folly6 of allowing Norine Evans to have her way. By the light of day Miss Evans's project seemed more hare-brained than ever, and he suspected that Enriquez had acquiesced
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sufficiently
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adv.足够地,充分地 | |
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cocktail
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n.鸡尾酒;餐前开胃小吃;混合物 | |
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outfit
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prospect
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lodgings
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clams
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pastry
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philosophic
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uncertainty
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(random access memory)随机存取存储器 | |
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filibusters
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aroma
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evoked
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thereby
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gathering
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dynamite
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redoubtable
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mariner
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behold
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cargo
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patriots
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爱国者,爱国主义者( patriot的名词复数 ) | |
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wraith
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oblivious
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scant
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adj.不充分的,不足的;v.减缩,限制,忽略 | |
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gee
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heartily
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melancholy
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berths
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scented
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dungeon
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jubilation
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glum
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bantering
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