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Mr. Weston was a native of Highbury, and born of a respectable family, which for the last two or three generations had been rising into gentility and property. He had received a good education, but, on succeeding early in life to a small independence, had become indisposed for any of the more homely1 pursuits in which his brothers were engaged, and had satisfied an active, cheerful mind and social temper by entering into the militia2 of his county, then embodied3.
Captain Weston was a general favourite; and when the chances of his military life had introduced him to Miss Churchill, of a great Yorkshire family, and Miss Churchill fell in love with him, nobody was surprized, except her brother and his wife, who had never seen him, and who were full of pride and importance, which the connexion would offend.
Miss Churchill, however, being of age, and with the full command of her fortune - though her fortune bore no proportion to the family-estate - was not to be dissuaded5 from the marriage, and it took place, to the infinite mortification6 of Mr. and Mrs. Churchill, who threw her off with due decorum. It was an unsuitable connexion, and did not produce much happiness. Mrs. Weston ought to have found more in it, for she had a husband whose warm heart and sweet temper made him think every thing due to her in return for the great goodness of being in love with him; but though she had one sort of spirit, she had not the best. She had resolution enough to pursue her own will in spite of her brother, but not enough to refrain from unreasonable7 regrets at that brother's unreasonable anger, nor from missing the luxuries of her former home. They lived beyond their income, but still it was nothing in comparison of Enscombe: she did not cease to love her husband, but she wanted at once to be the wife of Captain Weston, and Miss Churchill of Enscombe.
Captain Weston, who had been considered, especially by the Churchills, as making such an amazing match, was proved to have much the worst of the bargain; for when his wife died, after a three years' marriage, he was rather a poorer man than at first, and with a child to maintain. From the expense of the child, however, he was soon relieved. The boy had, with the additional
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adj.家常的,简朴的;不漂亮的 | |
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n.民兵,民兵组织 | |
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v.表现( embody的过去式和过去分词 );象征;包括;包含 | |
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v.劝阻,阻止 | |
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dissuaded
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劝(某人)勿做某事,劝阻( dissuade的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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mortification
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unreasonable
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n.和解,和谐,一致 | |
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reluctance
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n.厌恶,讨厌,勉强,不情愿 | |
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favourable
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competence
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disposition
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delightful
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amiable
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gratitude
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adoption
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n.理解,领悟;逮捕,拘捕;忧虑 | |
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ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地 | |
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apothecary
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