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CHAPTER THE FIFTH The World according to Sir Isaac 3 4
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The same exceptional aptitude1 of Sir Isaac for detailed2 administration that had relieved his wife from the need of furnishing and arranging a home, made the birth of her children and the organization of her nursery an almost detached affair for her. Sir Isaac went about in a preoccupied3 way, whistling between his teeth and planning with expert advice the equipment of an ideal nursery, and her mother and his mother became as it were voluminous clouds of uncommunicative wisdom and precaution. In addition the conversation of Miss Crump, the extremely skilled and costly5 nurse, who arrived a full Advent6 before the child, fresh from the birth of a viscount, did much to generalize whatever had remained individual of this thing that was happening. With so much intelligence focussed, there seemed to Lady Harman no particular reason why she should not do her best to think as little as possible about the impending7 affair, which meant for her, she now understood quite clearly, more and more discomfort8 culminating in an agony. The summer promised to be warm, and Sir Isaac took a furnished house for the great event in the hills behind Torquay. The maternal9 instinct is not a magic thing, it has to be evoked10 and developed, and I decline to believe it is indicative of any peculiar11 unwomanliness in Lady Harman that when at last she beheld12 her newly-born daughter in the hands of the experts, she moaned druggishly, "Oh! please take it away. Oh! Take it—away. Anywhere—anywhere."
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lurking
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proximity
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administrative
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advancement
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privately
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assassinations
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禁令,禁律( prohibition的名词复数 ); 禁酒; 禁例 | |
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advantageous
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decadent
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intimacies
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亲密( intimacy的名词复数 ); 密切; 亲昵的言行; 性行为 | |
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revival
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nucleus
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merged
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knight
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admiration
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