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Stella hurried Frank across the meadows, a rather difficult task, as he would insist upon talking, his teeth chattering1, and his clothes dripping.
"What a splendid fellow, Stella! What a happy girl you ought to be—you are!"
"Perhaps I am," assented2 Stella, with a little smile; "but do you make haste, Frank! Can't you run any faster? I'll race you to the lane!"
"No, you won't," he retorted cheerfully. "You run like a greyhound at the best of times, and now I seem to have got a couple of tons clinging to me, you'd beat me hollow. But, Stella! think of him plunging3 off the beam! Many a man would have been satisfied to jump off the bank; if he had, he wouldn't have saved me! He knew that; and he made nothing of it, nothing! And that is the man they call a dandy and a fop!"
"Never mind what they call him, but run!" implored4 Stella.
"I don't know any other man who could have done it," he went on, his teeth chattering; "and how friendly and jolly he was, calling me Frank and telling me to call him Leycester! Stella, what a lucky girl you are; but he is not a bit too good for you after all! No one is too good for you! And he does love you, Stella; I could see it by the way he looked at you, and you thought to hide it, and that I shouldn't see it. Did you think I was a muff?"
"I think you will be laid up with a bad cold, sir, if you don't run!" said Stella. "What will uncle say?"
Frank stopped short and his face paled; he seemed to shrink.
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"My father must know nothing about it," he said. "Don't tell him, Stella; I will get in the back way and change. Don't tell him!"
"But——" said Stella.
"No, no," he reiterated5; "I don't want him to know. It will only trouble him, and"—his voice faltered—"I have given him so much trouble."
"Very well," said Stella. "But come along or you will be ill, and then he must know."
This appeared to have the desired effect, and he took her hand and set off at a run. They reached the lane, and were just turning into it, when the tall, thin figure of Jasper emerged.
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chattering
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| n. (机器振动发出的)咔嗒声,(鸟等)鸣,啁啾 adj. 喋喋不休的,啾啾声的 动词chatter的现在分词形式 | |
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| 同意,赞成( assent的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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plunging
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| adj.跳进的,突进的v.颠簸( plunge的现在分词 );暴跌;骤降;突降 | |
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| 恳求或乞求(某人)( implore的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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| 反复地说,重申( reiterate的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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defiance
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sinister
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sullenly
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| 不高兴地,绷着脸,忧郁地 | |
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sneer
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exclamation
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sneering
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peculiar
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coveting
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joyousness
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prudence
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perspiration
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| n.(空心)小珠子( bead的名词复数 );水珠;珠子项链 | |
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intensity
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