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“CARRIE’S all right. She’s finicky, but she’ll get over it. But I wish she’d hurry up about it! What she can’t understand is that a fellow practising medicine in a small town like this has got to cut out the highbrow stuff, and not spend all his time going to concerts and shining his shoes. (Not but what he might be just as good at all these intellectual and art things as some other folks, if he had the time for it!)” Dr. Will Kennicott was brooding in his office, during a free moment toward the end of the summer afternoon. He hunched1 down in his tilted2 desk-chair, undid3 a button of his shirt, glanced at the state news in the back of the Journal of the American Medical Association, dropped the magazine, leaned back with his right thumb hooked in the arm-hole of his vest and his left thumb stroking the back of his hair.
“By golly, she’s taking an awful big chance, though. You’d expect her to learn by and by that I won’t be a parlor4 lizard5. She says we try to ‘make her over.’ Well, she’s always trying to make me over, from a perfectly6 good M. D. into a damn poet with a socialist7 necktie! She’d have a fit if she knew how many women would be willing to cuddle up to Friend Will and comfort him, if he’d give ’em the chance! There’s still a few dames9 that think the old man isn’t so darn unattractive! I’m glad I’ve ducked all that woman-game since I’ve been married but —— Be switched if sometimes I don’t feel tempted11 to shine up to some girl that has sense enough to take life as it is; some frau that doesn’t want to talk Longfellow all the time, but just hold my hand and say, ‘You look all in, honey. Take it easy, and don’t try to talk.’
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Christian
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neurotic
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chestnut
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psychology
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repression
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buffalo
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shrimp
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intrigue
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adv.装成端庄地,认真地 | |
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bellow
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v.吼叫,怒吼;大声发出,大声喝道 | |
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swell
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vi.膨胀,肿胀;增长,增强 | |
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disapproval
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a.秘密的,不公开的 | |
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