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CHAPTER SIXTEEN
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The Purple Chicken seemed to be having a big night. The room opening on to the street, when George reached it, was so crowded, that there was no chance of getting a table. He passed through, hoping to find a resting-place in the open-air section which lay beyond: and was struck, as he walked, by the extraordinarily1 fine physique of many of the diners.
As a rule, the Purple Chicken catered3 for the intelligentsia of the neighbourhood, and these did not run to thews and sinews. On most nights in the week you would find the tables occupied by wispy4 poets and slender futurist painters: but now, though these were present in great numbers, they were supplemented by quite a sprinkling of granite-faced men with knobby shoulders and protruding5 jaws6. George came to the conclusion that a convention from one of the outlying States must be in town and that these men were members of it, bent7 upon seeing Bohemia.
He did not, however, waste a great deal of time in speculation8 on this matter, for, stirred by the actual presence of food, he had begun now to realise that Molly had been right, as women always are, and that, while his whole higher self cried out for the moon, his lower self was almost equally as insistent9 on taking in supplies. And at this particular restaurant it was happily possible to satisfy both selves simultaneously10: for there, as he stepped into what the management called the garden—a flagged backyard dotted with tables—was the moon, all present and correct, and there, also, were waiters waiting to supply the prix fixe table-d'hôte at one-dollar-fifty.
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annex
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champagne
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vt.& vi.延期,缓办,(使)延迟vt.把…放在次要地位;[语]把…放在后面(或句尾)vi.(疟疾等)延缓发作(或复发) | |
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n.痛苦,苦恼,苦难;悲惨的境遇,贫苦 | |
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n.命令,需要;规则;祈使语气;adj.强制的;紧急的 | |
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