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Chapter 38 Promises Fulfilled
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‘Then proudly, proudly up she rose,
Tho’ the tear was in her e’e,
“Whate’er ye say, think what ye may,
Ye’s get na word frae me!”’
SCOTCH1 BALLAD2.
It was not merely that Margaret was known to Mr. Thornton to have spoken falsely — though she imagined that for this reason only was she so turned in his opinion — but that this falsehood of hers bore a distinct reference in his mind to some other lover. He could not forget the fond and earnest look that had passed between her and some other man — the attitude of familiar confidence, if not of positive endearment6. The thought of this perpetually stung him; it was a picture before his eyes, wherever he went and whatever he was doing. In addition to this (and he ground his teeth as he remembered it), was the hour, dusky twilight7; the place, so far away from home, and comparatively unfrequented. His nobler self had said at first, that all this last might be accidental, innocent, justifiable8; but once allow her right to love and be beloved (and had he any reason to deny her right? — had not her words been severely9 explicit10 when she cast his love away from her?), she might easily have been beguiled11 into a longer walk, on to a later hour than she had anticipated. But that falsehood! which showed a fatal consciousness of something wrong, and to be concealed12, which was unlike her. He did her that justice, though all the time it would have been a relief to believe her utterly13
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1 scotch | |
n.伤口,刻痕;苏格兰威士忌酒;v.粉碎,消灭,阻止;adj.苏格兰(人)的 | |
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n.歌谣,民谣,流行爱情歌曲 | |
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4 spoke | |
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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5 confide | |
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6 endearment | |
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7 twilight | |
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8 justifiable | |
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15 esteem | |
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16 misery | |
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17 passionately | |
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18 truthful | |
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19 lashed | |
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20 jealousy | |
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21 detention | |
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22 itching | |
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23 averting | |
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24 concealment | |
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25 irritable | |
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26 abrupt | |
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27 piqued | |
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28 subdued | |
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29 backwards | |
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30 everlasting | |
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31 affected | |
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32 standing | |
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33 intoxication | |
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34 inquiry | |
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35 judicial | |
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36 remonstrating | |
v.抗议( remonstrate的现在分词 );告诫 | |
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37 promenade | |
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38 guardian | |
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39 writhed | |
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41 determined | |
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42 attachment | |
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43 perfectly | |
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44 imputation | |
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45 disposition | |
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46 uncouth | |
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47 judgment | |
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48 savage | |
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49 guise | |
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50 lucid | |
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51 softening | |
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52 daunted | |
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53 courteous | |
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54 discomfited | |
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55 propitiating | |
v.劝解,抚慰,使息怒( propitiate的现在分词 ) | |
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56 softened | |
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57 dilating | |
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58 upbraid | |
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59 penitence | |
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60 humbled | |
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61 meekly | |
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62 humiliated | |
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63 interfere | |
v.(in)干涉,干预;(with)妨碍,打扰 | |
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64 combativeness | |
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65 steadily | |
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66 truthfulness | |
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67 confession | |
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68 sob | |
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69 unwilling | |
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70 winced | |
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71 hissing | |
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72 apparently | |
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73 interval | |
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74 disdain | |
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75 outwards | |
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76 justify | |
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77 remonstrance | |
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78 machinery | |
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79 incompetence | |
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80 annoyance | |
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81 favourable | |
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82 repugnance | |
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83 sullenness | |
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84 latch | |
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85 lodge | |
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86 vouchsafing | |
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87 scowling | |
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88 follower | |
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89 impudence | |
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90 hamper | |
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91 upwards | |
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92 concession | |
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93 acting | |
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94 mutual | |
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95 specially | |
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96 warp | |
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97 pretext | |
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98 deign | |
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99 bent | |
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