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CHAPTER THE EIGHTH Sir Isaac as Petruchio 5 6
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The imprisonment1 of Lady Harman at Black Strand2 lasted just one day short of a fortnight.
For all that time except for such interludes as the urgent needs of the strike demanded, Sir Isaac devoted3 himself to the siege. He did all he could to make her realize how restrainedly he used the powers the law vests in a husband, how little he forced upon her the facts of marital4 authority and wifely duty. At times he sulked, at times he affected5 a cold dignity, and at times a virile6 anger swayed him at her unsubmissive silences. He gave her little peace in that struggle, a struggle that came to the edge of physical conflict. There were moments when it seemed to her that nothing remained but that good old-fashioned connubial7 institution, the tussle8 for the upper hand, when with a feminine horror she felt violence shouldering her shoulder or contracting ready to grip her wrist. Against violence she doubted her strength, was filled with a desolating9 sense of yielding nerve and domitable muscle. But just short of violence Sir Isaac's spirit failed him. He would glower10 and bluster11, half threaten, and retreat. It might come to that at last but at present it had not come to that.
She could not understand why she had neither message nor sign from Susan Burnet, but she hid that anxiety and disappointment under her general dignity.
She spent as much time with the children as she could, and until Sir Isaac locked up the piano she played, and was surprised to find far more in Chopin than she had ever suspected in the days when she had acquired a passable
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imprisonment
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marital
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affected
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desolating
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perplexed
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desecrate
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flatten
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mire
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momentous
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interval
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intervals
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perennials
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amazement
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orchard
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immortal
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witty
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defiant
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stagnation
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banking
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同意(concur的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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amenable
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gnome
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descend
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flamboyant
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abruptly
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imminent
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erect
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exterior
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descended
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assailed
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doorway
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queried
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invincibly
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enquire
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distress
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perfectly
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