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Chapter 16 He Becomes Mildly Religious and Highly Literary
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The hero of the one-act play at Hammerstein’s Victoria vaudeville1 theater on that December evening was, it appeared, a wealthy young mine-owner in disguise. He was working for the “fake mine promoter” because he loved the promoter’s daughter with a love that passed all understanding except that of the girls in the gallery. When the postal3 authorities were about to arrest the promoter our young hero saved him by giving him a real mine, and the ensuing kiss of the daughter ended the suspense4 in which Mr. Wrenn and Nelly, Mrs. Arty and Tom had watched the play from the sixth row of the balcony.
Sighing happily, Nelly cried to the group: “Wasn’t that grand? I got so excited! Wasn’t that young miner a dear?”
“Awfully5 nice,” said Mr. Wrenn. “And, gee6! wasn’t that great, that office scene — with that safe and the rest of the stuff — just like you was in a real office. But, say, they wouldn’t have a copying-press in an office like that; those fake mine promoters send out such swell7 letters; they’d use carbon copies and not muss the letters all up.”
“By gosh, that’s right!” and Tom nodded his chin toward his right shoulder in approval. Nelly cried, “That’s so; they would”; while Mrs. Arty, not knowing what a copying-press was, appeared highly commendatory, and said nothing at all.
During the moving pictures that followed, Mr. Wrenn felt proudly that he was taken seriously, though he had known them but little over a month. He followed up his conversational8 advantage by leading the chorus in wondering, “which one of them two actors the heroine was married to?” and “how much a week they get for acting9 in that thing?” It was Tom who invited them to Miggleton’s for coffee and fried
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n.歌舞杂耍表演 | |
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bourgeois
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微睡,睡眠(slumber的现在分词形式) | |
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exquisite
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whined
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n.[物]散射;散乱,分散;在媒介质中的散播adj.散乱的;分散在不同范围的;广泛扩散的;(选票)数量分散的v.散射(scatter的ing形式);散布;驱散 | |
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grandeur
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