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Now, what is this that haunts me like my shadow,
Frisking and mumming like an elf in moonlight!
BEN JONSON.
Peveril found the master of the vessel1 rather less rude than those in his station of life usually are, and received from him full satisfaction concerning the fate of Fenella, upon whom the captain bestowed2 a hearty3 curse, for obliging him to lay-to until he had sent his boat ashore4, and had her back again.
“I hope,” said Peveril, “no violence was necessary to reconcile her to go ashore? I trust she offered no foolish resistance?”
“Resist! mein Gott,” said the captain, “she did resist like a troop of horse — she did cry, you might hear her at Whitehaven — she did go up the rigging like a cat up a chimney; but dat vas ein trick of her old trade.”
“What trade do you mean?” said Peveril.
“Oh,” said the seaman5, “I vas know more about her than you, Meinheer. I vas know that she vas a little, very little girl, and prentice to one seiltanzer, when my lady yonder had the good luck to buy her.”
“A seiltanzer!” said Peveril; “what do you mean by that?”
“I mean a rope-danzer, a mountebank6, a Hans pickel-harring. I vas know Adrian Brackel vell — he sell de powders dat empty men’s stomach, and fill him’s own purse. Not know Adrian Brackel, mein Gott! I have smoked many a pound of tabak with him.”
Peveril now remembered that Fenella had been brought into the family when he and the young Earl were in England, and while the Countess was absent on an expedition to the continent. Where the Countess found her, she never communicated to the young men; but only intimated, that she had received her out of compassion7, in order to relieve her from a situation of extreme
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n.船舶;容器,器皿;管,导管,血管 | |
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possessed
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fidelity
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peculiar
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controversy
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gentry
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odious
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haughty
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dealer
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contrived
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haggling
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dealers
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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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scruple
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complaisance
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draught
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militia
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n.民兵,民兵组织 | |
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grooms
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Christian
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garner
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garnishing
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brutality
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deference
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