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CHAPTER THE FIFTH The World according to Sir Isaac 5 6
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It seemed to her husband that it was both unreasonable1 and ungrateful of her to become a tearful young woman after their union, and for a phase of some months she certainly was a tearful young woman, but his mother made it clear to him that this was quite a correct and permissible2 phase for her, as she was, and so he expressed his impatience3 with temperance, and presently she was able to pull herself together and begin to readjust herself to a universe that had seemed for a time almost too shattered for endurance. She resumed the process of growing up that her marriage had for a time so vividly4 interrupted, and if her schooldays were truncated5 and the college phase omitted, she had at any rate a very considerable amount of fundamental experience to replace these now customary completions.
Three little girls she brought into the world in the first three years of her married life, then after a brief interval6 of indifferent health she had a fourth girl baby of a physique quite obviously inferior to its predecessors7, and then, after—and perhaps as a consequence of—much whispered conversation of the two mothers-in-law, protests and tactful explanation on the part of the elderly and trustworthy family doctor and remarks of an extraordinary breadth (and made at table too, almost before the door had closed on Snagsby!) from Ellen's elder sister, there came a less reproductive phase....
But by that time Lady Harman had acquired the habit of reading and the habit of thinking over what she read, and from that it is an easy step to thinking over oneself and the circumstances of one's own life. The one thing trains for the other.
Now the chief circumstance in the life of Lady Harman was Sir Isaac. Indeed as she grew to a clear consciousness of herself and her position, it seemed to her he was not so much a circumstance as a circumvallation. There wasn't a direction in which she could turn without immediately running up against him. He had taken possession of her extremely. And from her first resignation to this as an
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unreasonable
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impatience
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vividly
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predecessors
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supremely
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obtrusive
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jealousy
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sonnets
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temperament
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vile
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dishonouring
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kindliness
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qualms
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craving
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realizations
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认识,领会( realization的名词复数 ); 实现 | |
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toiling
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intercept
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submission
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humiliation
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obliterating
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censored
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agitation
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demonstrations
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证明( demonstration的名词复数 ); 表明; 表达; 游行示威 | |
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disturbance
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n.动乱,骚动;打扰,干扰;(身心)失调 | |
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coveting
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v.贪求,觊觎( covet的现在分词 ) | |
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subscribe
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vi.(to)订阅,订购;同意;vt.捐助,赞助 | |
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retired
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pointedly
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subscribing
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v.捐助( subscribe的现在分词 );签署,题词;订阅;同意 | |
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helping
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controversy
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abated
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abominably
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enquire
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allusion
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