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The Legend VI
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IT had been arranged that Pellerin, after the meeting of the Uplift Club, should join Bernald at his rooms and spend the night there, instead of returning to Portchester. The plan had been eagerly elaborated by the young man, but he had been unprepared for the alacrity1 with which his wonderful friend accepted it. He was beginning to see that it was a part of Pellerin’s wonderfulness to fall in, quite simply and naturally, with any arrangements made for his convenience, or tending to promote the convenience of others. Bernald felt that his extreme docility2 in such matters was proportioned to the force of resistance which, for nearly half a life-time, had kept him, with his back to the wall, fighting alone against the powers of darkness. In such a scale of values how little the small daily alternatives must weigh!
At the close of Howland Wade3’s discourse4, Bernald, charged with his prodigious5 secret, had felt the need to escape for an instant from the liberated6 rush of talk. The interest of watching Pellerin was so perilously7 great that the watcher felt it might, at any moment, betray him. He lingered in the crowded drawing-room long enough to see his friend enclosed in a mounting tide, above which Mrs. Beecher Bain and Miss Fosdick actively8 waved their conversational9 tridents; then he took refuge, at the back of the house, in a small dim library where, in his younger days, he had discussed personal immortality10 and the problem of consciousness with beautiful girls whose names he could not remember.
In this retreat he surprised Mr. Beecher Bain, a quiet man with a mild brow, who was smoking a surreptitious cigar over the last number of the
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alacrity
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n.容易教,易驾驶,驯服 | |
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v.跋涉,涉水;n.跋涉 | |
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adj.惊人的,奇妙的;异常的;巨大的;庞大的 | |
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perilously
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actively
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conversational
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adj.对话的,会话的 | |
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immortality
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n.不死,不朽 | |
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vt.使(船)搁浅,使(某人)困于(某地) | |
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steered
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bosom
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n.胸,胸部;胸怀;内心;adj.亲密的 | |
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devoted
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champagne
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grandeur
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n.伟大,崇高,宏伟,庄严,豪华 | |
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disintegration
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n.分散,解体 | |
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throng
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n.人群,群众;v.拥挤,群集 | |
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purveyor
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n.承办商,伙食承办商 | |
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trumpeted
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大声说出或宣告(trumpet的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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acquitted
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宣判…无罪( acquit的过去式和过去分词 ); 使(自己)作出某种表现 | |
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lessening
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减轻,减少,变小 | |
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faculty
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naturalists
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afflatus
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amazement
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impartial
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notation
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reverent
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deity
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sensuous
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hearth
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n.壁炉炉床,壁炉地面 | |
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hush
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expectancy
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dedicated
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initiation
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catching
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spoke
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utterance
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intentionally
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appreciation
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