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CHAPTER THE TENTH Lady Harman comes out 11 12
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Lady Harman was still in a state of amazement1 at the altered prospects2 of her hostels4 when the day arrived for the formal opening of the first of these in Bloomsbury. They made a little public ceremony of it in spite of her reluctance5, and Mr. Brumley had to witness things from out of the general crowd and realize just how completely he wasn't in it, in spite of all his efforts. Mrs. Pembrose was modestly conspicuous6, like the unexpected in all human schemes. There were several reporters present, and Horatio Blenker who was going to make a loyal leader about it, to be followed by one or two special articles for the Old Country Gazette.
Horatio had procured7 Mrs. Blapton for the opening after some ineffectual angling for the Princess Adeline, and the thing was done at half-past three in the afternoon. In the bright early July sunshine outside the new building there was a crimson8 carpet down on the pavement and an awning9 above it, there was a great display of dog-daisies at the windows and on the steps leading up to the locked portals, an increasing number of invited people lurked10 shyly in the ground-floor rooms ready to come out by the back way and cluster expectantly when Mrs. Blapton arrived, Graper the staff manager and two assistants in dazzling silk hats seemed everywhere, the rabbit-like architect had tried to look doggish in a huge black silk tie and only looked more like a rabbit than ever, and there was a steady driftage of small boys and girls, nurses with perambulators, cab touts11, airing grandfathers and similar
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amazement
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hostel
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gilt
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proprietor
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vestige
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abruptly
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sedulous
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疾病(尤指慢性病),不适( ailment的名词复数 ) | |
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precisely
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disingenuous
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inevitable
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wholesale
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disintegration
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vices
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缺陷( vice的名词复数 ); 恶习; 不道德行为; 台钳 | |
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peculiar
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pedantry
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obstinacies
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helping
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exacting
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gratitude
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lamentable
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discredited
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vindictiveness
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恶毒;怀恨在心 | |
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relentlessly
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dealing
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contemplating
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interval
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gathering
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