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January and February passed, and Eve’s capital dwindled1 steadily2, with no very obvious prospect3 of her being able to replenish4 it. She sold three more small pictures, and had one or two dress designs accepted by a woman’s journal, but these fragments of good fortune were more than counterbalanced by a piece of knavish5 luck. One wet day, just as it was getting dusk, she had her vanity-bag snatched from her. It contained five pounds that she had drawn6 from the bank about half an hour before. She never had another glimpse of the bag or of the thief. Her balance had been reduced now to sixteen pounds, and all that she had foreseen in her panic moods seemed likely to be fulfilled.
Her diet became a diet of milk and buns, tea, stale eggs, and bread and butter. She spent nothing on dress, and wore her shoes long after they should have gone to the cobbler. She planned to do most of her own washing at home, drying it in front of her sitting-room7 fire, and putting up with the moist, steamy smell and her landlady8’s contemptuous face. Mrs. Buss’s affability was beginning to wear very thin, for it was a surface virtue9 at its best. Poverty does not always inspire that human pity that we read of in sentimental10 stories. Primitive11 peoples have a horror of sickness and death, and civilisation
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prospect
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(不顾困难地)促成某事( contrive的现在分词 ); 巧妙地策划,精巧地制造(如机器); 设法做到 | |
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