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CHAPTER XL.
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Prince Khris of Karstein was at Monte Carlo playing continuously, losing almost always, living in a miserable1 lodging2 over a small shop, and devoting, to that blind goddess with a thousand hands who is called Play, his clothes, his sustenance3, his last rings and shirt studs. He did this every winter, and every spring he was supplied afresh through his daughter’s means, and went to Spa or Luchon and did the same. From Germany he was banned.
One day at the Casino he saw the Duchess of Otterbourne stretching out her slender hand between a Jew broker4 and a Paris cocotte to put some gold upon the red.
“Ah! blonde devil! blonde devil!” he thought to himself, and wished he might see her lose her last farthing and crawl under a hedge to drink her last dose of morphia. But this he knew he was not likely to see, nor anyone else, for she was not the kind of person who kills herself, and at play she generally won, for she kept quite cool at it and never let it run away with her judgment5.
He hated her intensely; he had never liked her, but when she had shut Harrenden House to him, she had excited and merited his most bitter detestation. She had not played fair, and Prince Khris, though he might cheat, abhorred6 being cheated; he felt it an insult to his intelligence. He had discovered the Massarenes before she had done so; they had been his placer-claim, his treasure isle7, his silver mine; she had come after him and profited and plundered8. This he might have pardoned if she had kept faith with him and gone shares. But she had acted treacherously9. She had mined the ground under his feet. She had taught these ignorant people to know him as he was. She had made them understand that they must drop him, shake him off; that to be seen with him did them social harm, not good. She had
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掠夺,抢劫( plunder的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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背信弃义地; 背叛地; 靠不住地; 危险地 | |
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astonishment
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annoyance
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hauteur
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inquiry
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lamentable
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varied
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intrepid
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curtly
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soothing
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Christian
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sullenly
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不高兴地,绷着脸,忧郁地 | |
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serenely
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amazement
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allege
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embarrassment
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hatred
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perverted
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exquisite
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wretch
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annexing
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vengeance
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hearth
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