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Chapter XI
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Agathe and Joseph arrived at the coach-office of the Messageries–Royales in the place Misere at three o’clock. Though tired with the journey, Madame Bridau felt her youth revive at sight of her native land, where at every step she came upon memories and impressions of her girlish days. In the then condition of public opinion in Issoudun, the arrival of the Parisians was known all over the town in ten minutes. Madame Hochon came out upon her doorstep to welcome her godchild, and kissed her as though she were really a daughter. After seventy-two years of a barren and monotonous2 existence, exhibiting in their retrospect3 the graves of her three children, all unhappy in their lives, and all dead, she had come to feel a sort of fictitious4 motherhood for the young girl whom she had, as she expressed it, carried in her pouch5 for sixteen years. Through the gloom of provincial6 life the old woman had cherished this early friendship, this girlish memory, as closely as if Agathe had remained near her, and she had also taken the deepest interest in Bridau. Agathe was led in triumph to the salon7 where Monsieur Hochon was stationed, chilling as a tepid8 oven.
“Here is Monsieur Hochon; how does he seem to you?” asked his wife.
“Precisely the same as when I last saw him,” said the Parisian woman.
“Ah! it is easy to see you come from Paris; you are so complimentary,” remarked the old man.
The presentations took place: first, young Baruch Borniche, a tall youth of twenty-two; then Francois Hochon, twenty-four; and lastly little Adolphine, who blushed and did not know what to do with her arms; she was anxious not to seem to be looking at Joseph Bridau, who in his turn was narrowly observed, though from different points of view, by the two young men and by old Hochon. The miser
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apprehensions
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一批( batch的名词复数 ); 一炉; (食物、药物等的)一批生产的量; 成批作业 | |
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looming
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n.上现蜃景(光通过低层大气发生异常折射形成的一种海市蜃楼)v.隐约出现,阴森地逼近( loom的现在分词 );隐约出现,阴森地逼近 | |
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sinister
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