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Chapter III. To Introduce Mr. Pinkerton.
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The stranger, I have said, was some years older than myself: a man of a good stature1, a very lively face, cordial, agitated2 manners, and a gray eye as active as a fowl’s.
“May I have a word with you?” said I.
“My dear sir,” he replied, “I don’t know what it can be about, but you may have a hundred if you like.”
“You have just left the side of a young lady,” I continued, “towards whom I was led (very unintentionally) into the appearance of an offence. To speak to herself would be only to renew her embarrassment3, and I seize the occasion of making my apology, and declaring my respect, to one of my own sex who is her friend, and perhaps,” I added, with a bow, “her natural protector.”
“You are a countryman of mine; I know it!” he cried: “I am sure of it by your delicacy4 to a lady. You do her no more than justice. I was introduced to her the other night at tea, in the apartment of some people, friends of mine; and meeting her again this morning, I could not do less than carry her easel for her. My dear sir, what is your name?”
I was disappointed to find he had so little bond with my young lady; and but that it was I who had sought the acquaintance, might have been tempted6 to retreat. At the same time, something in the stranger’s eye engaged me.
“My name,” said I, “is Loudon Dodd; I am a student of sculpture here from Muskegon.”
“Of sculpture?” he cried, as though that would have been his last conjecture7. “Mine is James Pinkerton; I am delighted to have the pleasure of your acquaintance.”
“Pinkerton!” it was now my turn to exclaim. “Are you Broken- Stool Pinkerton?”
He admitted his identity with a laugh of boyish delight; and indeed any young man in the quarter might have been proud to own a sobriquet
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gasped
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luncheon
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loath
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prone
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fathomed
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jersey
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scriptures
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| 经文,圣典( scripture的名词复数 ); 经典 | |
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random
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memento
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peruse
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irrational
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creed
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monarchies
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virtues
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inspection
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persevere
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fortitude
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rebounding
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simplicity
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