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CHAPTER XVIII.
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The giddy months frolicked away like youths and maidens1 dancing on a golden ground on one of Povis de Chavanne’s friezes2. Flirting3, laughing, gaming, waltzing, shooting, hunting, driving, dressing—above all dressing—the seasons succeeded each other with breathless rapidity for Mouse Kenilworth, and hundreds of fair women like her.
Money grew scarcer, credit grew rarer, Billy became less easy to bleed, Harry4 seemed to grow duller and less good-looking, cabmen became shyer still of Cocky, and the old duke more unwilling5 to sign and sell; but she still all the same enjoyed herself, still carried high her golden head, and still crammed6 forty-eight hours into every twenty-four. Occasionally she did a little philanthropy; inaugurated a railway line, visited some silk mills, or laid the stone of a church. The silver barrow she received made a pretty flower-stand, the pieces of silk offered to her were also useful in their way, and when she had opened a church she felt she had a dispensation for months from attending church services. Only Egypt she could not manage this year. Egypt is a pastime which requires a good deal of ready money, and she had to console herself with hunting in the Midlands and shooting rocketers in the damp English woods; she did not really care about shooting, but she found zest7 in it because Ronald and the old duke hated the idea of women killing8 things, and even Brancepeth disapproved9 it.
She went down again more than once to Vale Royal and went out with the hounds to whose maintenance her host had subscribed
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处女( maiden的名词复数 ); 少女; 未婚女子; (板球运动)未得分的一轮投球 | |
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odious
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cork
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reverting
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costly
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aquiline
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prominence
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forgery
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frail
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orchids
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hearth
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brute
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uncommon
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scampered
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disapproval
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dexterity
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warfare
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fragrance
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compassionate
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