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March 26. Wilson was, as I had anticipated, very exultant1 over my conversion2, and Miss Penclosa was also demurely3 pleased at the result of her experiment. Strange what a silent, colorless creature she is save only when she exercises her power! Even talking about it gives her color and life. She seems to take a singular interest in me. I cannot help observing how her eyes follow me about the room.
We had the most interesting conversation about her own powers. It is just as well to put her views on record, though they cannot, of course, claim any scientific weight.
“You are on the very fringe of the subject,” said she, when I had expressed wonder at the remarkable4 instance of suggestion which she had shown me. “I had no direct influence upon Miss Marden when she came round to you. I was not even thinking of her that morning. What I did was to set her mind as I might set the alarum of a clock so that at the hour named it would go off of its own accord. If six months instead of twelve hours had been suggested, it would have been the same.”
“And if the suggestion had been to assassinate5 me?”
“She would most inevitably6 have done so.”
“But this is a terrible power!” I cried.
“It is, as you say, a terrible power,” she answered gravely, “and the more you know of it the more terrible will it seem to you.”
“May I ask,” said I, “what you meant when you said that this matter of suggestion is only at the fringe of it? What do you consider the essential?”
“I had rather not tell you.”
I was surprised at the decision of her answer.
“You understand,” said I, “that it is not out of curiosity I ask, but in the hope that I may find some scientific explanation for the facts with which you furnish me.”
“Frankly, Professor Gilroy,” said she, “I am not at all interested in science, nor do I care whether it can or cannot classify these powers.”
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conversion
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n.转化,转换,转变 | |
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scoffer
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phenomena
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n.T字形拐杖;支持,依靠,精神支柱 | |
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deductions
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barometric
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loathe
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loathed
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v.憎恨,厌恶( loathe的过去式和过去分词 );极不喜欢 | |
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公开声称的,伪称的,已立誓信教的 | |
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monstrous
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adj.巨大的;恐怖的;可耻的,丢脸的 | |
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odious
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brutal
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obsession
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hideous
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adj.丑陋的,可憎的,可怕的,恐怖的 | |
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bestial
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postpone
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allusion
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conceal
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stimulates
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crab
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