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CHAPTER XIX.
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Mr. Tuke rode homewards in a very grave and preoccupied1 frame of mind. Perhaps he was conscious of a peril2 more nearly threatening his peace than any scheme of truculent3 knavery4. Of the latter he could take every advantage that circumstance permitted him, without risk of self-accusation. The other was a more delicate question to face—a question of such moment that, pondering it, he must temporarily relegate5 to the background of his thoughts the issues involved in his adventure of the night.
Plainly, it amounted to this—was it to be control or abuse of the indefinite quantity known as a man’s honour?
He was not a coxcomb6, or conceited7; but he was an experienced worldling, and, as such, he could not pretend to misdeem, in any pretty maid, those premonitory symptoms of a disease of the heart that may be called aptly an “affection.”
Now—except when the stubborn devil in him was baited into cruelty—he was a good-natured and humane8 enough fellow, with a natural scorn of inflicting9 upon any other the pain he would himself shrink from enduring. Moreover he had sworn himself to a life of cleanliness and redemption of the past. Thirdly, and most important, did he or did he not seriously contemplate10 the possibility of a connection with a lady of gentle degree, to whom—if he offered his heart at all—he must make his presentation with washed hands and an unstained conscience?
What problems may not be involved in a demand for straight yes or no where the heart is called upon to answer! But then, what an inextricable problem is the heart itself. Its sympathies are so manifold that, would it be consistent, it must seal its every
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adj.全神贯注的,入神的;被抢先占有的;心事重重的v.占据(某人)思想,使对…全神贯注,使专心于( preoccupy的过去式) | |
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navigate
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v.航行,飞行;导航,领航 | |
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antagonist
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lugging
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超载运转能力 | |
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bridle
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vi.谈话,谈天,闲聊;adv.相反的,相反 | |
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juncture
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distressed
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n.出口/路;销路;批发商店;通风口;发泄 | |
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rosy
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bloody
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cargo
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灌木( shrub的名词复数 ) | |
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pretext
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gravel
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bodyguard
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