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SHE had tripped into the meadow to teach the lambs a pretty educational dance and found that the lambs were wolves. There was no way out between their pressing gray shoulders. She was surrounded by fangs1 and sneering2 eyes.
She could not go on enduring the hidden derision. She wanted to flee. She wanted to hide in the generous indifference4 of cities. She practised saying to Kennicott, “Think perhaps I’ll run down to St. Paul for a few days.” But she could not trust herself to say it carelessly; could not abide5 his certain questioning.
Reform the town? All she wanted was to be tolerated!
She could not look directly at people. She flushed and winced6 before citizens who a week ago had been amusing objects of study, and in their good-mornings she heard a cruel sniggering.
She encountered Juanita Haydock at Ole Jenson’s grocery. She besought7, “Oh, how do you do! Heavens, what beautiful celery that is!”
“Yes, doesn’t it look fresh. Harry8 simply has to have his celery on Sunday, drat the man!”
Carol hastened out of the shop exulting9, “She didn’t make fun of me. . . . Did she?”
In a week she had recovered from consciousness of insecurity, of shame and whispering notoriety, but she kept her habit of avoiding people. She walked the streets with her head down. When she spied Mrs. McGanum or Mrs. Dyer ahead she crossed over with an elaborate pretense10 of looking at a billboard11. Always she was
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n.(尤指狗和狼的)长而尖的牙( fang的名词复数 );(蛇的)毒牙;罐座 | |
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consultation
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v.娇养,宠坏( mollycoddle的第三人称单数 ) | |
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alley
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automobile
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n.汽车,机动车 | |
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v.发出短而尖的叫声( yelp的现在分词 ) | |
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ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地 | |
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carnival
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n.嘉年华会,狂欢,狂欢节,巡回表演 | |
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半身雕塑像( bust的名词复数 ); 妇女的胸部; 胸围; 突击搜捕 | |
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