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Since the return of his son to him Monseigneur's days had been full of trouble. After having banished2 him from his presence almost immediately upon the death of his wife, and remaining without seeing him for twenty years, lo! he had now come back to him in the plenitude and lustre3 of youth, the living portrait of the one he had so mourned, with the same delicate grace and beauty. This long exile, this resentment4 against a child whose life had cost that of the mother, was also an act of prudence5. He realised it doubly now, and regretted that he had changed his determination of not seeing him again. Age, twenty years of prayer, his life as clergyman, had not subdued6 the unregenerate man within him. It was simply necessary that this son of his, this child of the wife he had so adored, should appear with his laughing blue eyes, to make the blood circulate so rapidly in his veins7 as if it would burst them, as he seemed to think that the dead had been brought to life again. He struck his breast, he sobbed8 bitterly in penitence9, as he remembered that the joys of married life and the ties springing therefrom were prohibited to the priesthood. The good Abbe Cornille had spoken of all this to Hubertine in a low voice and with trembling lips. Mysterious sounds had been heard, and it was whispered that Monseigneur shut himself up after twilight11, and passed nights of combat, of tears and of cries, the violence of which, although partly stifled12 by the hangings of his room, yet frightened the members of his household. He thought that he had forgotten; that he had conquered passion; but it reappeared with the violence of a tempest, reminding him of the terrible man he had been formerly--the bold adventurer, the descendant of brave,

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vt.放逐,驱逐;消除,排除 | |
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v.放逐,驱逐( banish的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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resentment
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prudence
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legendary
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flayed
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maturity
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n.成熟;完成;(支票、债券等)到期 | |
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exhausted
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haughty
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confession
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distressed
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folly
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embroiderer
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virgin
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fervent
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inordinate
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chapel
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bishop
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perfectly
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vaulted
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chateau
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rosy
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supreme
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回响,回荡( reverberate的过去式和过去分词 ); 使反响,使回荡,使反射 | |
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vow
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n.誓(言),誓约;v.起誓,立誓 | |
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worthies
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应得某事物( worthy的名词复数 ); 值得做某事; 可尊敬的; 有(某人或事物)的典型特征 | |
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prodigy
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plaque
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dame
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frail
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majesty
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