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I had determined1 to waive2 the task of a concluding chapter, leaving to the reader’s imagination the arrangements which must necessarily take place after Lord Evandale’s death. But as I was aware that precedents3 are wanting for a practice which might be found convenient both to readers and compilers, I confess myself to have been in a considerable dilemma4, when fortunately I was honoured with an invitation to drink tea with Miss Martha Buskbody, a young lady who has carried on the profession of mantua-making at Ganderscleugh and in the neighbourhood, with great success, for about forty years. Knowing her taste for narratives6 of this description, I requested her to look over the loose sheets the morning before I waited on her, and enlighten me by the experience which she must have acquired in reading through the whole stock of three circulating libraries, in Ganderscleugh and the two next market-towns. When, with a palpitating heart, I appeared before her in the evening, I found her much disposed to be complimentary7.
“I have not been more affected,” said she, wiping the glasses of her spectacles, “by any novel, excepting the ‘Tale of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy’, which is indeed pathos8 itself; but your plan of omitting a formal conclusion will never do. You may be as harrowing to our nerves as you will in the course of your story, but, unless you had the genius of the author of ‘Julia de Roubignd,’ never let the end be altogether overclouded. Let us see a glimpse of sunshine in the last chapter; it is quite essential.”
“Nothing would be more easy for me, madam, than to comply with your injunctions; for, in truth, the parties in whom you have had the goodness to be interested, did live long and happily, and begot9 sons and daughters.”
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引用单元; 范例( precedent的名词复数 ); 先前出现的事例; 前例; 先例 | |
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dilemma
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n.困境,进退两难的局面 | |
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narrative
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narratives
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记叙文( narrative的名词复数 ); 故事; 叙述; 叙述部分 | |
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pathos
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insipid
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luscious
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vapid
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basted
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apprentice
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horrid
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bungled
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redeem
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apprise
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accomplished
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descend
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vt./vi.传下来,下来,下降 | |
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countenance
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housekeeper
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chamber
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brass
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persuasions
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persevering
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renowned
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alias
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poultry
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n.家禽,禽肉 | |
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demon
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queries
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