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Chapter Six
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A PROFOUND stillness reigned1 in the Casa Gould. The master of the house, walking along the corredor, opened the door of his room, and saw his wife sitting in a big armchair — his own smoking armchair — thoughtful, contemplating2 her little shoes. And she did not raise her eyes when he walked in.
“Tired?” asked Charles Gould.
“A little,” said Mrs. Gould. Still without looking up, she added with feeling, “There is an awful sense of unreality about all this.”
Charles Gould, before the long table strewn with papers, on which lay a hunting crop and a pair of spurs, stood looking at his wife: “The heat and dust must have been awful this afternoon by the waterside,” he murmured, sympathetically. “The glare on the water must have been simply terrible.”
“One could close one’s eyes to the glare,” said Mrs. Gould. “But, my dear Charley, it is impossible for me to close my eyes to our position; to this awful . . .”
She raised her eyes and looked at her husband’s face, from which all sign of sympathy or any other feeling had disappeared. “Why don’t you tell me something?” she almost wailed4.
“I thought you had understood me perfectly5 from the first,” Charles Gould said, slowly. “I thought we had said all there was to say a long time ago. There is nothing to say now. There were things to be done. We have done them; we have gone on doing them. There is no going back now. I don’t suppose that, even from the first, there was really any possible way back. And, what’s more, we can’t even afford to stand still.”
“Ah, if one only knew how far you mean to go,” said his wife. inwardly trembling, but in an almost playful tone.
“Any distance, any length, of course,” was the answer, in a matter-of-fact tone, which caused Mrs. Gould to make another effort to repress a shudder6.
She stood up, smiling graciously, and her little figure seemed to be diminished still more by the heavy mass of her hair and the long train of her gown.
“But always to success,” she said,
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reigned
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contemplating
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| 深思,细想,仔细考虑( contemplate的现在分词 ); 注视,凝视; 考虑接受(发生某事的可能性); 深思熟虑,沉思,苦思冥想 | |
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brass
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cavalry
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velvet
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distraction
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agitation
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rumour
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submission
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victorious
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canard
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watchful
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electrified
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| v.使电气化( electrify的过去式和过去分词 );使兴奋 | |
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vivaciously
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thoroughly
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audacity
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motive
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inception
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confidentially
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anarchy
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specially
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behold
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resolute
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courageous
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sentimental
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frankly
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determined
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injustice
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poetical
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soothing
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deference
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impelled
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derived
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perspicacious
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disparaging
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fidelity
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pretext
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