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CHAPTER XLVIII.
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The château of Les Mouettes was lent for the coming winter season to the Prince and Princess Woffram of Karstein by its owners, who, both naturally generous, and made more generous still by happiness and a sense of gratitude1, were unceasing and inexhaustible in the wideness of their goodwill2. It was always well to oblige persons who are led away by their feelings, thought the recipient3 of their bounties4. Such people do not inquire too minutely or measure too exactly. It is of such as these that is made that succulent oyster5 which the wise man or woman opens with his or her knife, and sucks the juices thereof.
Mouse had fully6 persuaded herself that she had done an admirable action. She had made two people happy; if their happiness were idiotic7, and to her incomprehensible, it was none the less to them what their hearts desired: no one can account for the tastes of others.
She really admired herself and quite succeeded in forgetting whatever there might have been a little questionable8 or a little disagreeable to explain about her visit to Prince Khris on his deathbed. The documents had all been quite genuine; if she had embroidered9 a little on the plain facts of how she had obtained them, that mattered to nobody. Neither Vanderlin nor Olga ever doubted her narrative10, and their gratitude toward her found incessant11 expression. If Prince Woffram doubted it he never said so. He had accepted its results, and his lips were sealed.
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recipient
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bounties
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(由政府提供的)奖金( bounty的名词复数 ); 赏金; 慷慨; 大方 | |
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oyster
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idiotic
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embroidered
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incessant
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standing
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amazement
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sepulchral
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relish
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fumbled
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azure
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alienated
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stunned
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outrage
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spasm
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unbearable
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hostility
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pauper
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candid
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deference
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culpable
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touching
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countenance
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infamy
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eyebrows
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fretting
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lagoon
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eldest
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guardianship
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license
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affected
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solitary
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reigning
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bust
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portrayed
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philosophic
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advantageous
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shameful
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soothingly
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