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CHAPTER XIV.
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The snow was gone, but it was still cold and unpleasant weather when the ruler of Mr. Massarene’s fate, accompanied by a score or more intimate acquaintances who had been persuaded to patronize “Billy,” arrived in the dusk at Vale Royal with an enormous amount of luggage and a regiment1 of body-servants and maids.
“You needn’t have come to meet us. I know my way about here better than you do,” was the ungracious salutation with which the host, who had gone himself to the station, was met by the object of his veneration2. She never flattered him now; she had got him well in hand; it was no longer necessary to do violence to her nature; when one likes the use of the spur one does not humor one’s horse with sugar; she thought the spur and the whip salutary for him, and employed them with scant3 mercy.
She mounted as lightly as a young cat to the box of the four-in-hand break, took the reins4, and drove her mesmerized5, trembling yet enchanted6 victim through the dusky lanes and over the muddy roads which were familiar to her, the lights of the lamps flashing, and the chatter7 and laughter of the other occupants of the break bringing the laboring8 people out of their cottages, as the lady whom they knew so well flew by them in the twilight9.
“Seems kind o’ heartless like in Lady Kenny to go to the great house now the poor lord’s in it no more; him her own cousin and all,” said a young woman to her husband who was only a hedger and ditcher, but a shrewd observer in his way, and who replied, as he looked after the four white-stockinged bays: “Lady Kenny aren’t one to cry for spilt milk; she knows where her bread is buttered. Lord,
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感情,激情; 缰( rein的名词复数 ); 控制手段; 掌管; (成人带着幼儿走路以防其走失时用的)保护带 | |
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unanimity
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alteration
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carving
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intercourse
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(纪念性的)匾牌( plaque的名词复数 ); 纪念匾; 牙斑; 空斑 | |
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troupe
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