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A Correspondence and A Climax
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At sunset Sidney hurried to her room to take off the soiled and faded cotton dress she had worn while milking. She had milked eight cows and pumped water for the milk-cans afterward2 in the fag-end of a hot summer day. She did that every night, but tonight she had hurried more than usual because she wanted to get her letter written before the early farm bedtime. She had been thinking it out while she milked the cows in the stuffy3 little pen behind the barn. This monthly letter was the only pleasure and stimulant4 in her life. Existence would have been, so Sidney thought, a dreary5, unbearable6 blank without it. She cast aside her milking-dress with a thrill of distaste that tingled7 to her rosy8 fingertips. As she slipped into her blue-print afternoon dress her aunt called to her from below. Sidney ran out to the dark little entry and leaned over the stair railing. Below in the kitchen there was a hubbub9 of laughing, crying, quarrelling children, and a reek10 of bad tobacco smoke drifted up to the girl's disgusted nostrils11.
Aunt Jane was standing12 at the foot of the stairs with a lamp in one hand and a year-old baby clinging to the other. She was a big shapeless woman with a round good-natured face—cheerful and vulgar as a sunflower was Aunt Jane at all times and occasions.
"I want to run over and see how Mrs. Brixby is this evening, Siddy, and you must take care of the baby till I get back."
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n.家族,亲属,血缘关系;adj.亲属关系的,同类的 | |
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aloofness
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mare
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aroma
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motives
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avow
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witty
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stimulating
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beguiling
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vessel
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