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"You will not deny, I am sure," said Gavrila Ardalionovitch, turning to Burdovsky, who sat looking at him with wide-open eyes, perplexed1 and astonished. You will not deny, seriously, that you were born just two years after your mother's legal marriage to Mr. Burdovsky, your father. Nothing would be easier than to prove the date of your birth from well-known facts; we can only look on Mr. Keller's version as a work of imagination, and one, moreover, extremely offensive both to you and your mother. Of course he distorted the truth in order to strengthen your claim, and to serve your interests. Mr. Keller said that he previously2 consulted you about his article in the paper, but did not read it to you as a whole. Certainly he could not have read that passage. .. . .
"As a matter of fact, I did not read it," interrupted the boxer3, "but its contents had been given me on unimpeachable4 authority, and I . . ."
"Excuse me, Mr. Keller," interposed Gavrila Ardalionovitch. "Allow me to speak. I assure you your article shall be mentioned in its proper place, and you can then explain everything, but for the moment I would rather not anticipate. Quite accidentally, with the help of my sister, Varvara Ardalionovna Ptitsin, I obtained from one of her intimate friends, Madame Zoubkoff, a letter written to her twenty-five years ago, by Nicolai Andreevitch Pavlicheff, then abroad. After getting into communication with this lady, I went by her advice to Timofei Fedorovitch Viazovkin, a retired5 colonel, and one of Pavlicheff's oldest friends. He gave me two more letters written by the latter when he was still in foreign parts. These three documents, their dates, and the facts mentioned in them, prove in the most undeniable manner, that eighteen months before your birth, Nicolai Andreevitch went abroad, where he remained for three consecutive6 years. Your mother, as you are well aware, has never been out of Russia. . . . It is too late to read the letters now; I am content to state the fact. But if you desire it, come to me tomorrow morning, bring witnesses and writing experts with you, and I will prove the absolute truth of my story. From that moment the question will be

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abruptly
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sojourn
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intervals
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recollect
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investigation
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benefactor
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gratitude
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generosity
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rogue
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adj.不可指责的,无过失的 | |
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distressed
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foe
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vile
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chaos
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mountebank
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n.江湖郎中;骗子 | |
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beseech
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v.祈求,恳求 | |
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humility
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positively
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horrified
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furtively
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ecstasy
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considerably
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countenance
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inhuman
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censure
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(使)败坏( corrupt的第三人称单数 ); (使)腐化; 引起(计算机文件等的)错误; 破坏 | |
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atheist
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invalid
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sentimental
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gasping
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resentment
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