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CHAPTER XI LATIMER
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When Eve had left for Latimer, the routine of Canterton’s working day ran with the same purposefulness, like a familiar path in a garden, yet though the scene was the same, the atmosphere seemed different, even as a well-known landscape may be glorified1 and rendered more mysterious by the light poured out from under the edge of a thunder cloud. A peculiar2 tenderness, a glamour3 of sensitiveness, covered everything. He was more alive to the beauty of the world about him, and the blue hills seemed to hang like an enchantment4 on the edge of the horizon. He felt both strangely boyish and richly mature. Something had been renewed in him. He was an Elizabethan, a man of a wonderful new youth, seeing strange lands rising out of the ocean, his head full of a new splendour of words and a new majesty5 of emotions. The old self in him seemed as young and fresh as the grass in spring. His vitality6 was up with the birds at dawn.
The first two days were days of dreams. The day’s work was the same, yet it passed with a peculiar pleasureableness as though there were soft music somewhere keeping a slow rhythm. He was conscious of an added wonder, of the immanence of something that had not taken material shape. A richer light played upon the colours of the world about him. He was conscious of the light, but he did not realise its nature, nor whence it came.
On the third day the weather changed, and an absurd restlessness took possession of him. Rain came in rushes out of a hurrying grey sky, and the light and the warmth seemed to have gone out of the world. Mysterious outlines took on a sharp distinctness. Figures were no longer the glimmering8 shapes of an Arthurian dream. Canterton became more conscious of the physical part of himself, of appetites, needs, inclinations9, tendencies. Something was hardening and taking shape.
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glorified
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美其名的,变荣耀的 | |
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majesty
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originality
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gliding
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conjured
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mosaic
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villa
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cedars
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雪松,西洋杉( cedar的名词复数 ) | |
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cascades
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倾泻( cascade的名词复数 ); 小瀑布(尤指一连串瀑布中的一支); 瀑布状物; 倾泻(或涌出)的东西 | |
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