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Chapter 4 An Amateur Detective
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Dan left the Mayfair house very mournfully, feeling that Sir John was indeed master of the situation. By a skilful1 appeal to the generous emotions of youth, to the boy’s honour and to the girl’s affections, he had procured2 a respite3 of twelve months, during which time the lovers could do nothing, bound as they were by silken threads. This would give Curberry time to push his suit, and there was always a chance that Dan would come to grief in one of his aerial trips in which case Lillian would certainly be driven to marry her titled swain. Halliday knew nothing of Moon’s reckoning on these points, or he would have only accepted the situation on condition that Curberry was not to meet or write to the girl oftener than himself. Logically speaking, the peer and the commoner should have been placed on the same footing. But Dan’s grief at the parting confused his understanding, and he had not been clever enough to seize his opportunity. Therefore Sir John, winning all along the line, had cleared the path for Curberry, and had more or less blocked it for Dan. But, as yet, the young man did not grasp the full extent of Sir John’s worldly wisdom.
What Halliday had to do — and this dominated his mind immediately he left the house — was to solve the mystery of Sir Charles’s death. The sooner he captured the false Mrs. Brown, who, presumably, had murdered the old man, the sooner would he lead Lillian to the altar. Therefore he was feverishly4 anxious to begin, but for the life of him he did not see how to make a start. He had absolutely no experience of what constituted the business of a detective, and was daunted5 at the outset by the difficulties of the path. All the same he never thought of halting, but pressed forward without a pause. And the first step he took was to consult a friend, on the obvious assumption that two heads are better than one.
It was Freddy Laurance whom he decided6 to interview, since that very up-to-date young journalist knew everyone of any note, and almost everything of interest, being, indeed, aware of much of which the ordinary man in the street was ignorant. He and Dan had been to
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entirely
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prolix
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concise
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n.打听,询问,调查,查问 | |
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打听( enquire的过去式和过去分词 ); 询问; 问问题; 查问 | |
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n.检查员,监察员,视察员 | |
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goad
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n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财 | |
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wretch
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n.可怜的人,不幸的人;卑鄙的人 | |
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fragrance
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v.耸肩(表示怀疑、冷漠、不知等) | |
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同意,赞成( assent的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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delightful
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n.祈神赐福;祷告;祝福,祝愿 | |
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