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Chapter the Twelfth.
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Three form a College — an you give us four,
Let him bring his share with him.
BRAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
Mr. Bletson arose and paid his respects to Colonel Everard, with the ease and courtesy of a gentleman of the time; though on every account grieved at his intrusion, as a religious man who held his free-thinking principles in detestation, and would effectually prevent his conversion1 of Harrison, and even of Desborough, if any thing could be moulded out of such a clod, to the worship of the Animus2 Mundi. Moreover, Bletson knew Everard to be a man of steady probity3, and by no means disposed to close with a scheme on which he had successfully sounded the other two, and which was calculated to assure the Commissioners4 of some little private indemnification for the trouble they were to give themselves in the public business. The philosopher was yet less pleased, when he saw the magistrate5 the pastor6 who had met him in his flight of the preceding evening, when he had been seen, parma non bene relicta, with cloak and doublet left behind him.
The presence of Colonel Everard was as unpleasing to Desborough as to Bletson: but the former having no philosophy in him, nor an idea that it was possible for any man to resist helping7 himself out of untold8 money, was chiefly embarrassed by the thought, that the plunder9 which they might be able to achieve out of their trust, might, by this unwelcome addition to their number, be divided into four parts instead of three; and this reflection added to the natural awkwardness with which he grumbled
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conversion
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draught
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fortifying
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mansion
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attestation
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squire
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hawk
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trifling
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cowardice
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fumbling
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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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breach
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philosophical
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puff
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dungeon
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steward
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lodge
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favourable
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brawling
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winking
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scoffer
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extremity
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