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"IT 'S time to go to the station, Tom."
"Come on, then."
"Oh, I 'm not going; it 's too wet. Should n't have a crimp left if I went out such a day as this; and I want to look nice when Polly comes."
"You don't expect me to go and bring home a strange girl alone, do you?" And Tom looked as much alarmed as if his sister had proposed to him to escort the wild woman of Australia.
"Of course I do. It 's your place to go and get her; and if you was n't a bear, you 'd like it."
"Well, I call that mean! I supposed I 'd got to go; but you said you 'd go, too. Catch me bothering about your friends another time! No, sir! " And Tom rose from the sofa with an air of indignant resolution, the impressive effect of which was somewhat damaged by a tousled head, and the hunched1 appearance of his garments generally.
"Now, don't be cross; and I 'll get mamma to let you have that horrid2 Ned Miller3, that you are so fond of, come and make you a visit after Polly 's gone," said Fanny, hoping to soothe4 his ruffled5 feelings.
"How long is she going to stay?" demanded Tom, making his toilet by a promiscuous6 shake.
"A month or two, maybe. She 's ever so nice; and I shall keep her as long as she 's happy."
"She won't stay long then, if I can help it," muttered Tom, who regarded girls as a very unnecessary portion of creation. Boys of fourteen are apt to think so, and perhaps it is a wise arrangement; for, being fond of turning somersaults, they have an opportunity of indulging in a good one, metaphorically7 speaking, when, three or four years later, they become the abject8 slaves of "those bothering girls."
"Look here! how am I going to know the creature? I never saw her, and she never saw me. You 'll have to come too, Fan," he added, pausing on his way to the door, arrested by the awful idea that he might have to address several strange girls before he got the right one.

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(常指因寒冷、生病或愁苦)耸肩弓身的,伏首前倾的 | |
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adj.可怕的;令人惊恐的;恐怖的;极讨厌的 | |
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vt.& vi.跋涉,吃力地走(trudge的现在分词形式) | |
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hacks
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retired
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apron
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elegance
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cherub
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bliss
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困境( woe的名词复数 ); 悲伤; 我好苦哇; 某人就要倒霉 | |
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哭泣,啜泣( sob的过去式和过去分词 ); 哭诉,呜咽地说 | |
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malady
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