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CHAPTER VII. THE POOL OF DEATH.
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Morning brought a pitcher1 of comfort with it on its gossamer2 wings. Who, at 17, can wake from restoring sleep to find the June sun on his face and elect to breakfast on bitter wormwood, with the appetizing fry of good country bacon caressing3 his nostrils4 through every chink of the boards? Indeed, I was not born to hate, or to any decided5 vice6 or virtue7, but was of those who, taking a middle course, are kicked to the wall or into the gutter8 as the Fates have a fancy.
I was friendly with myself, with Jason—almost with Zyp, who had so bedeviled me. After all, I thought, the measure of her regard for me might be more in a winning friendliness9 than in embraces such as she had bestowed10 upon Modred.
Therefore I dressed in good heart, chatting amiably11 with Jason, who, I could not help noticing, was at some pains to study me curiously12.
Such reactionary13 spirits are the heritage of youth. They decline with the day. My particular relapse happened, maybe, ungenerously early, for it was at breakfast I noticed the first tremulous
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pitcher
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n.(有嘴和柄的)大水罐;(棒球)投手 | |
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n.薄纱,游丝 | |
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爱抚的,表现爱情的,亲切的 | |
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鼻孔( nostril的名词复数 ) | |
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friendliness
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赠给,授予( bestow的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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amiably
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disabusing
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boorish
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banter
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shaft
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misery
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prospect
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solitary
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trespassing
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[法]非法入侵 | |
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使复杂化( complicate的现在分词 ) | |
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embarrassment
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discomfiture
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resound
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v.回响 | |
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deliberately
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eluded
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v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 );暴跌;骤降;突降 | |
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wrecked
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laboring
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drenched
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hideous
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toll
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frantically
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sluggishly
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ashore
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loutish
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malicious
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hue
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