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CHAPTER VIII
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When she went back to Andrews she carried the pricked1 leaves with her. She could not have left them behind. From what source she had drawn2 a characterizing passionate3, though silent, strength of mind and body, it would be difficult to explain. Her mind and her emotions had been left utterly4 unfed, but they were not of the inert5 order which scarcely needs feeding. Her feeling for the sparrows had held more than she could have expressed; her secret adoration6 of the “Lady Downstairs” was an intense thing. Her immediate7 surrender to the desire in the first pair of human eyes—child eyes though they were—which had ever called to her being for response, was simple and undiluted rapture8. She had passed over her little soul without a moment’s delay and without any knowledge of the giving. It had flown from her as a bird might fly from darkness into the sun. Eight-year-old Donal was the sun.
No special tendency to innate9 duplicity was denoted by the fact that she had acquired, through her observation of Andrews, Jennings, Jane and Mrs. Blayne, the knowledge that there were things it was best not to let other people know. You were careful about them. From the occult communications between herself and Donal, which had resulted in their intrigue10, there had of course evolved a realizing sense of the value of discretion11. She did not let Andrews see the decorated leaves, but put them into a small pocket in her coat. Her
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passionate
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adoration
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discretion
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machiavellian
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robin
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petals
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delightful
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highland
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bonnet
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seclusion
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clump
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shrub
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shrubs
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enthralling
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hemming
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marvel
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dingy
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mere
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joyous
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outright
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hawthorn
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smelt
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bent
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caresses
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| 爱抚,抚摸( caress的名词复数 ) | |
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amazement
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intoxicated
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| 喝醉的,极其兴奋的 | |
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beholder
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rib
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humbled
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confession
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passionately
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stoutly
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gratitude
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manly
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joyously
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vaguely
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embarrassment
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gratuity
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scents
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enchantment
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alluring
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hopped
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