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CHAPTER XXIX At the Cow at Wichben
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The happiness he had dreamed of was given to him; nay1, he knew joy and tenderness even more high and sweet than his fancy had painted. As Camylott had been in his childhood so he saw it again—the most beauteous home in England and the happiest, its mistress the fairest woman and the most nobly loving. As his own father and mother had found life a joyful3 thing and their world full of warm hearts and faithful friends, so he and she he loved, found it together. The great house was filled once more with guests and pleasures as in the olden time, the stately apartments were thrown open for entertainment, gay cavalcades4 came and went from town, the forests were hunted, the moors5 shot over by sportsmen, and the lady who was hostess and chatelaine won renown6 as well as hearts, since each party of guests she entertained went back to the homes they came from, proclaiming to all her wit and gracious charm.
She rode to hunt and leapt hedges as she had done when she had been Clo Wildairs; she walked the moors with the sportsmen, her gun over her shoulder, she sparkling and showing her white teeth like a laughing gipsy; and when she so walked, the black rings of her hair blown loose about her brow, her cheeks kissed fresh crimson8 by the wet wind, and turned her eyes upon my lord Duke near her and their looks met, the man who beheld9 saw lovers who set his own heart beating.
"But is it true," asked once the great French lady who had related the history of the breaking of the horse, Devil, "is it true that a poor man killed himself in despair on her last marriage, and that she lives a secret life of penance10 to atone—and wears a hair shirt, and peas in her beautiful satin shoes, and does deeds of mercy in the dark places of the big black English city?"
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creditors
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brilliance
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rambling
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attire
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humble
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homage
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saucy
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weds
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manor
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chatter
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hacked
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| 羽毛( plume的名词复数 ); 羽毛饰; 羽毛状物; 升上空中的羽状物 | |
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fixed
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hanger
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fumbles
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| 摸索,笨拙的处理( fumble的名词复数 ) | |
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bloody
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bantering
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passionate
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