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Mr. Tuke fell back a pace, breathing quickly. Then he advanced in quick fury, so that the man in the doorway2 shrunk before him.
“At your good service, sir.”
“Who was that that went in before me—that has been stalking me all up the drive?”
“Ah, sir! You must hold her excused. I did not know she was out. It is my sister Darda.”
“The fiend take the jade5! I’ll have her out bag and baggage if she trifles with me. Here, sir—do you know who I am? Take my horse and see that he has food and water.”
He stalked angrily past the shrinking figure and made his way into the passage.
“Go, now,” he said with an impatient stamp, “and join me when your service is done.”
He saw a long hall, not too wide, that in its panelling of black oak looked a very catacomb of dismality in the light of a single flaring9 oil-lamp that stood up on a bracket, half-way down, and whose
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vacancy
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brass
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rust
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solitude
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bounty
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irony
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drowsiness
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mighty
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curt
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fragrant
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slumber
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recollecting
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shutters
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百叶窗( shutter的名词复数 ); (照相机的)快门 | |
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casement
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idyllic
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thronging
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smears
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scant
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hearths
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mingled
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bleached
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漂白的,晒白的,颜色变浅的 | |
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rippling
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起涟漪的,潺潺流水般声音的 | |
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