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The Consultation1.
Clown. I hope here be proofs. —
Measure for Measure.
The borough2 of —— lies, as all the world knows, about fourteen miles distant from St. Ronan’s, being the county town of that shire, which, as described in the Tourist’s Guide, numbers among its objects of interest that gay and popular watering-place, whose fame, no doubt, will be greatly enhanced by the present annals of its earlier history. As it is at present unnecessary to be more particular concerning the scene of our story, we will fill up the blank left in the first name with the fictitious3 appellation4 of Marchthorn, having often found ourselves embarrassed in the course of a story, by the occurrence of an ugly hiatus, which we cannot always at first sight fill up, with the proper reference to the rest of the narrative5.
Marchthorn, then, was an old-fashioned Scottish town, the street of which, on market-day, showed a reasonable number of stout6 great-coated yeomen, bartering7 or dealing8 for the various commodities of their farms; and on other days of the week, only a few forlorn burghers, crawling about like half-awakened flies, and watching the town steeple till the happy sound of twelve strokes from Time’s oracle10 should tell them it was time to take their meridian11 dram. The narrow windows of the shops intimated very imperfectly the miscellaneous contents of the interior, where every merchant, as the shopkeepers of Marchthorn were termed, more Scotico, sold every thing that could be thought of. As for manufactures, there were none, except that of the careful Town-Council, who were
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tenement
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bonnet
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stationary
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Saturn
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inquisitive
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housekeeper
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n.管理家务的主妇,女管家 | |
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bluff
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apron
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kindle
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pouches
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blithe
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auld
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vexes
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Christian
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heartily
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agitation
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expounder
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apprentices
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lodger
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puddle
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repent
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utterance
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accusation
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philistine
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calf
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