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CHAPTER XI
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“The child’s always been well, ma’am,” Andrews was standing1, the image of exact correctness, in her mistress’ bedroom, while Feather lay in bed with her breakfast on a convenient and decorative2 little table. “It’s been a thing I’ve prided myself on. But I should say she isn’t well now.”
“Well, I suppose it’s only natural that she should begin sometime,” remarked Feather. “They always do, of course. I remember we all had things when we were children. What does the doctor say? I hope it isn’t the measles3, or the beginning of anything worse?”
“No, ma’am, it isn’t. It’s nothing like a child’s disease. I could have managed that. There’s good private nursing homes for them in these days. Everything taken care of exactly as it should be and no trouble of disinfecting and isolating4 for the family. I know what you’d have wished to have done, ma’am.”
“Thank you, ma’am,” from Andrews. “Infectious things are easy managed if they’re taken away quick. But the doctor said you must be spoken to because perhaps a change was needed.”
“He seemed puzzled, ma’am. That’s what struck me. When I told him about her not eating—and lying awake crying all night—to judge from her looks in the morning—and getting thin and pale—he examined her very careful and he looked queer and he said, ‘This child hasn’t had a shock of any kind, has she? This looks like what we should call shock—if she were older’.”
Feather laughed.
“How could a baby like that have a shock?”
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measles
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isolating
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| adj.孤立的,绝缘的v.使隔离( isolate的现在分词 );将…剔出(以便看清和单独处理);使(某物质、细胞等)分离;使离析 | |
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| adj.和蔼可亲的,友善的,亲切的 | |
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spoke
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| n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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bracing
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bruise
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highland
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robin
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| 弯曲或下垂,发蔫( droop的名词复数 ) | |
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scotch
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edifying
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gathering
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wondrous
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prostrate
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prostrated
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emancipation
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sentimental
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yearningly
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| 怀念地,思慕地,同情地; 渴 | |
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interfere
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deserted
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ripple
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malice
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stimulating
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enraged
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condemnation
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edified
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countenance
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liquidity
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awakened
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delirium
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vitality
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grumbled
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hatred
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omission
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abhorrence
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antipathy
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seething
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ignominious
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martyr
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shriek
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prey
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