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CHAPTER I IN WHICH OUR SPECIAL COMMISSIONERS MAKE A START
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THE great Professor Challenger has been—very improperly1 and imperfectly—used in fiction. A daring author placed him in impossible and romantic situations in order to see how he would react to them. He reacted to the extent of a libel action, an abortive3 appeal for suppression, a riot in Sloane Street, two personal assaults, and the loss of his position as lecturer upon Physiology4 at the London School of Sub-Tropical Hygiene5. Otherwise, the matter passed more peaceably than might have been expected.
But he was losing something of his fire. Those huge shoulders were a little bowed. The spade-shaped Assyrian beard showed tangles6 of grey amid the black, his eyes were a trifle less aggressive, his smile less self-complacent, his voice as monstrous7 as ever but less ready to roar down all opposition8. Yet he was dangerous, as all around him were painfully aware. The volcano was not extinct, and constant rumblings threatened some new explosion. Life had much yet to teach him, but he was a little less intolerant in learning.
There was a definite date for the change which{12} had been wrought9 in him. It was the death of his wife. That little bird of a woman had made her nest in the big man’s heart. He had all the tenderness and chivalry10 which the strong can have for the weak. By yielding everything she had won everything, as a sweet-natured, tactful woman can. And when she died suddenly from virulent11
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physiology
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hygiene
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pneumonia
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influenza
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boxer
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combative
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controversy
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infancy
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(使)凋谢,枯萎( wilt的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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接头( joint的名词复数 ); 关节; 公共场所(尤指价格低廉的饮食和娱乐场所) (非正式); 一块烤肉 (英式英语) | |
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journalism
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relic
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absurdity
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rogue
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sane
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