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Chapter 32 The First Letter
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Where, it becomes time to inquire, was Paulina Mary? How fared my intercourse1 with the sumptuous2 H?tel Crécy? That intercourse had, for an interval3, been suspended by absence; M. and Miss de Bassompierre had been travelling, dividing some weeks between the provinces and capital of France. Chance apprised4 me of their return very shortly after it took place.
I was walking one mild afternoon on a quiet boulevard, wandering slowly on, enjoying the benign5 April sun, and some thoughts not unpleasing, when I saw before me a group of riders, stopping as if they had just encountered, and exchanging greetings in the midst of the broad, smooth, linden-bordered path; on one side a middle-aged6 gentleman and young lady, on the other — a young and handsome man. Very graceful7 was the lady’s mien8, choice her appointments, delicate and stately her whole aspect. Still, as I looked, I felt they were known to me, and, drawing a little nearer, I fully9 recognised them all: the Count Home de Bassompierre, his daughter, and Dr. Graham Bretton.
How animated10 was Graham’s face! How true, how warm, yet how retiring the joy it expressed! This was the state of things, this the combination of circumstances, at once to attract and enchain, to subdue11 and excite Dr. John. The pearl he admired was in itself of great price and truest purity, but he was not the man who, in appreciating the
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graceful
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gem
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attire
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vanquished
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dominion
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manly
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futile
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imprint
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cultivation
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consecration
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authoritative
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stipulated
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homage
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reign
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mettle
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compliance
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narrative
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briefly
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abridgment
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longing
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inspection
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n.检查,审查,检阅 | |
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admiration
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n.钦佩,赞美,羡慕 | |
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gathering
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tint
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disposition
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favourable
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caressing
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humanely
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benignity
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n.仁慈 | |
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savage
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gratitude
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reassure
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v.使放心,使消除疑虑 | |
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twine
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perfectly
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spoke
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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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petulant
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liking
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n.爱好;嗜好;喜欢 | |
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license
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n.执照,许可证,特许;v.许可,特许 | |
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whined
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v.哀号( whine的过去式和过去分词 );哀诉,诉怨 | |
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loquacious
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bemoaning
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lavish
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WHIMS
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虚妄,禅病 | |
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fatiguing
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a.使人劳累的 | |
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evaded
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逃避( evade的过去式和过去分词 ); 避开; 回避; 想不出 | |
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shuffled
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v.洗(纸牌)( shuffle的过去式和过去分词 );拖着脚步走;粗心地做;摆脱尘世的烦恼 | |
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equivocated
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v.使用模棱两可的话隐瞒真相( equivocate的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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herd
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inexplicable
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v.透(渗)入;刺入,刺穿;洞察,了解 | |
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beleaguers
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slovenly
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pricking
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soothes
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chiselling
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draught
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tempted
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moss
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morsel
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