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CHAPTER THE NINTH MR. BRUMLEY IS TROUBLED BY DIFFICULT IDEAS 1
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Then as that picture of a post office pane1, smashed and with a large hole knocked clean through it, fades at last upon the reader's consciousness, let another and a kindred spectacle replace it. It is the carefully cleaned and cherished window of Mr. Brumley's mind, square and tidy and as it were "frosted" against an excess of light, and in that also we have now to record the most jagged all and devastating3 fractures.
Little did Mr. Brumley reckon when first he looked up from his laces at Black Strand4, how completely that pretty young woman in the dark furs was destined5 to shatter all the assumptions that had served his life.
But you have already had occasion to remark a change in Mr. Brumley's bearing and attitude that carries him far from the kindly6 and humorous conservatism of his earlier work. You have shared Lady Harman's astonishment7 at the ardour of his few stolen words in the garden, an astonishment that not only grew but flowered in the silences of her captivity8, and you know something of the romantic impulses, more at least than she did, that gave his appearance at the little local railway station so belated and so disreputable a flavour. In the chilly9 ill-flavoured solitude10 of her prison cell and with a mind quickened by meagre and distasteful fare, Lady Harman had ample leisure to reflect upon many things, she had already fully2 acquainted herself with the greater proportion of Mr. Brumley's published works, and she found the utmost difficulty in reconciling the flushed impassioned quality of his few words of appeal, with the moral assumptions of his published opinions. On the whole she was inclined to think that her memory had a little distorted what he had said. In this however she was mistaken; Mr. Brumley had really been proposing an elopement and he was now
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adj. 有插图的,列举的 动词illustrate的过去式和过去分词 | |
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canopy
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n.天篷,遮篷 | |
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follies
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罪恶,时事讽刺剧; 愚蠢,蠢笨,愚蠢的行为、思想或做法( folly的名词复数 ) | |
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