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Chapter 30 Home at Last
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‘The saddest birds a season find to sing.’
SOUTHWELL.
‘Never to fold the robe o’er secret pain,
Never, weighed down by memory’s clouds again,
To bow thy head! Thou art gone home!’
MRS. HEMANS.
Mrs. Thornton came to see Mrs. Hale the next morning. She was much worse. One of those sudden changes — those great visible strides towards death, had been taken in the night, and her own family were startled by the gray sunken look her features had assumed in that one twelve hours of suffering. Mrs. Thornton — who had not seen her for weeks — was softened1 all at once. She had come because her son asked it from her as a personal favour, but with all the proud bitter feelings of her nature in arms against that family of which Margaret formed one. She doubted the reality of Mrs. Hale’s illness; she doubted any want beyond a momentary3 fancy on that lady’s part, which should take her out of her previously4 settled course of employment for the day. She told her son that she wished they had never come near the place; that he had never got acquainted with them; that there had been no such useless languages as Latin and Greek ever invented. He bore all this pretty silently; but when she had ended her invective5 against the dead languages, he quietly returned to the short, curt6, decided7 expression of his wish that she should go and see Mrs. Hale at the time appointed, as most likely to be convenient to the invalid8. Mrs. Thornton submitted with as bad a grace as she could to her son’s desire, all the time liking9 him the better for having it; and exaggerating in her own mind the same notion that he had of extraordinary goodness on his part in so
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1 softened | |
(使)变软( soften的过去式和过去分词 ); 缓解打击; 缓和; 安慰 | |
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5 invective | |
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7 decided | |
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10 perseveringly | |
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11 verging | |
接近,逼近(verge的现在分词形式) | |
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12 virtues | |
美德( virtue的名词复数 ); 德行; 优点; 长处 | |
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18 nay | |
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21 flickering | |
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22 gasped | |
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24 touching | |
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25 motive | |
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26 truthful | |
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28 sluggish | |
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29 scanty | |
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30 malady | |
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31 buoyed | |
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32 respite | |
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33 solitude | |
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34 procure | |
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35 withdrawn | |
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37 jingled | |
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38 preoccupied | |
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40 latch | |
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41 utterly | |
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42 prostrate | |
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44 taper | |
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45 complexion | |
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46 remarkably | |
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47 droll | |
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48 mutual | |
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49 lighter | |
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50 precisely | |
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51 glimmer | |
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52 bent | |
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53 wail | |
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54 exultingly | |
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55 agitated | |
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56 heartily | |
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57 refreshment | |
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58 intelligible | |
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59 applied | |
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60 chilly | |
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61 quotation | |
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62 Bungler | |
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63 lighting | |
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64 accomplishments | |
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65 zest | |
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66 pungent | |
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67 posture | |
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68 acting | |
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69 conceal | |
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70 rambled | |
(无目的地)漫游( ramble的过去式和过去分词 ); (喻)漫谈; 扯淡; 长篇大论 | |
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71 sate | |
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72 conversing | |
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73 redeemed | |
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74 vindictiveness | |
恶毒;怀恨在心 | |
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75 countenances | |
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76 impulsive | |
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77 recoil | |
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78 intercourse | |
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79 exquisite | |
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80 instinctively | |
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81 tune | |
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82 watchfulness | |
警惕,留心; 警觉(性) | |
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83 allusions | |
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84 awe | |
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85 imprisoned | |
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86 tranquillity | |
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87 adjured | |
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88 concealed | |
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89 immediate | |
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90 tormenting | |
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91 drooping | |
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92 caressing | |
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93 meek | |
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94 asunder | |
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95 parody | |
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98 remorse | |
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99 blot | |
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102 fatigues | |
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105 affected | |
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106 incapable | |
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107 sobs | |
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109 inured | |
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110 rebellious | |
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