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Chapter 11 Wooing
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Nothing could have been more unlike than the two pairs of lovers who from April to August haunted Mr. Yule's house. One pair was of the popular order, for Mark was tenderly tyrannical, Jessie adoringly submissive, and at all hours of the day they were to be seen making tableaux2 of themselves. The other pair were of the peculiar3 order, undemonstrative and unsentimental, but quite as happy. Moor4 knew his power, but used it generously, asking little while giving much. Sylvia as yet found nothing to regret, for so gently was she taught, the lesson could not seem hard, and when her affection remained unchanged in kind, although it deepened in degree, she said within herself--
"That strong and sudden passion was not true love, but an unwise, unhappy delusion5 of my own. I should be glad that it is gone, because I know I am not fit to be Warwick's wife. This quiet feeling which Geoffrey inspires must be a safer love for me, and I should be grateful that in making his happiness I may yet find my own."
She tried heartily6 to forget herself in others, unconscious that there are times when the duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe to them. In the atmosphere of cheerfulness that now surrounded her she could not but be cheerful, and soon it would have been difficult to find a more harmonious7 household than this. One little cloud alone remained to mar1 the general sunshine. Mark was in a frenzy8 to be married, but had set his heart on a double wedding, and Sylvia would not fix the time, always pleading--
"Let me be quite sure of myself before I take this step, and do not wait."
Matters stood thus till Mark, having prepared his honeymoon
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n.舞台造型,(由活人扮演的)静态画面、场面;人构成的画面或场景( tableau的名词复数 );舞台造型;戏剧性的场面;绚丽的场景 | |
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5 delusion | |
n.谬见,欺骗,幻觉,迷惑 | |
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10 honeymoon | |
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14 longing | |
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17 diligently | |
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19 expatiate | |
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20 bustle | |
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21 supreme | |
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30 proceeding | |
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41 confession | |
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42 rebellious | |
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45 generosity | |
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46 inevitably | |
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48 jealousy | |
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49 ardent | |
adj.热情的,热烈的,强烈的,烈性的 | |
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50 passionate | |
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53 garb | |
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54 tranquilly | |
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55 pointed | |
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