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CHAPTER THE TENTH Lady Harman comes out 5 6
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And while Lady Harman was making these meritorious1 and industrious2 attempts to grasp the significance of life and to get some clear idea of her social duty, the developments of those Hostels4 she had started—she now felt so prematurely—was going on. There were times when she tried not to think of them, turned her back on them, fled from them, and times when they and what she ought to do about them and what they ought to be and what they ought not to be, filled her mind to the exclusion5 of every other topic. Rigorously and persistently6 Sir Isaac insisted they were hers, asked her counsel, demanded her appreciation7, presented as it were his recurring8 bill for them.
Five of them were being built, not four but five. There was to be one, the largest, in a conspicuous9 position in Bloomsbury near the British Museum, one in a conspicuous position looking out upon Parliament Hill, one conspicuously10 placed upon the Waterloo Road near St. George's Circus, one at Sydenham, and one in the Kensington Road which was designed to catch the eye of people going to and fro to the various exhibitions at Olympia.
In Sir Isaac's study at Putney there was a huge and rather splendid-looking morocco portfolio11 on a stand, and this portfolio bore in excellent gold lettering the words, International Bread and Cake Hostels. It was her husband's peculiar12
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garrison
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使现代化,使适应现代需要( modernize的过去式和过去分词 ); 现代化,使用现代方法 | |
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adj.雄辩的,口才流利的;明白显示出的 | |
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steer
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vt.驾驶,为…操舵;引导;vi.驾驶 | |
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