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CHAPTER XXI Marriage and Departure
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For a little while after Mr. Stewart had communicated this important news they all sat in perfect stillness: C. B. because he did not in the least understand what had happened, but he could see it was something that had tremendously upset these two people who were so dear to him. Mr. Stewart was the first to speak.
“I can never feel sufficiently1 grateful,” he said, “for the impulse to fix up that annuity2 for Taber on the spot and for yielding to it. It was only in the nick of time, for this great crash came yesterday afternoon. Had I been in San Francisco it would not have—— But there, why should I say that, Levy3 is as good and keen and straight a man as I am, and the very best of us get caught sometimes. Even now, if it wasn’t for you, my boy, I think I should have turned to and had a fight for it; but you’ve kinder infected me with your pleasant doctrines4, putting me out of conceit5 with money grubbing for its own sake.”
Mary here burst in impetuously—
“Oh, dear Daddy, that I should hear you say so makes me so glad. I feel glad to think that we have lost our money if only we can get to this happy land that Christmas is looking forward to so hungrily. I felt almost jealous of it, and now I am as eager as he is.”
Just then a rap came at the door and in walked[Pg 306] the bell-boy with a telegram. The old gentleman tore it open and fell back in his chair, his face ghastly. Both Mary and C. B. sprang to his assistance, but he roused himself with an effort, and waving them back to their seats said, in a hard, strained voice—
“Mary, my love, your poor mother couldn’t stand the strain, she’s dead.”
Mary sat as if stricken to the heart, unable to speak, but she was a girl of great force of character, and she was rallying all her forces to meet this quite unexpected blow.
So her father resumed, saying, “She always had a weak heart as you know, dear, and besides she always had a
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1 sufficiently | |
adv.足够地,充分地 | |
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2 annuity | |
n.年金;养老金 | |
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3 levy | |
n.征收税或其他款项,征收额 | |
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4 doctrines | |
n.教条( doctrine的名词复数 );教义;学说;(政府政策的)正式声明 | |
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5 conceit | |
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6 dread | |
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8 consolation | |
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9 probation | |
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11 dwelling | |
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15 longing | |
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16 callous | |
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17 Christian | |
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18 allude | |
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19 consultation | |
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20 proceeding | |
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21 catching | |
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22 festive | |
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23 queried | |
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24 spliced | |
adj.(针织品)加固的n.叠接v.绞接( splice的过去式和过去分词 );捻接(两段绳子);胶接;粘接(胶片、磁带等) | |
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25 nuptials | |
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26 costly | |
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27 judicious | |
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29 bounty | |
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30 aged | |
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31 fully | |
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32 comely | |
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33 lavishness | |
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34 tempt | |
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35 snare | |
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36 blessing | |
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37 wedded | |
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38 proprietor | |
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39 devoted | |
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40 possessed | |
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41 kindly | |
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42 champagne | |
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43 boisterous | |
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44 entirely | |
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46 uproar | |
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47 repudiated | |
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49 grit | |
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50 outrage | |
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51 foul | |
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52 shriek | |
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53 winding | |
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54 frantic | |
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55 enraged | |
使暴怒( enrage的过去式和过去分词 ); 歜; 激愤 | |
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56 prostrate | |
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57 brutes | |
兽( brute的名词复数 ); 畜生; 残酷无情的人; 兽性 | |
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58 withering | |
使人畏缩的,使人害羞的,使人难堪的 | |
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59 concealing | |
v.隐藏,隐瞒,遮住( conceal的现在分词 ) | |
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60 proprietors | |
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61 abode | |
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62 fugitives | |
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63 vessel | |
n.船舶;容器,器皿;管,导管,血管 | |
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64 kerosene | |
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65 decided | |
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的 | |
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66 procured | |
v.(努力)取得, (设法)获得( procure的过去式和过去分词 );拉皮条 | |
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67 steadily | |
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68 depressed | |
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69 prospect | |
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70 perfectly | |
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71 sedately | |
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72 resolutely | |
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73 determined | |
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74 tug | |
v.用力拖(或拉);苦干;n.拖;苦干;拖船 | |
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76 receding | |
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77 appreciation | |
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79 hoisting | |
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81 interfere | |
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82 sarcastic | |
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83 utterly | |
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84 devoid | |
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86 contradictory | |
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88 literally | |
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