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CHAPTER XXIX.
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"Five minutes!" said Stella, warningly; and she turned her face from him, and kept her eyes fixed1 on the clock.
"It will suffice," said Jasper. "I have to ask you to bear with[198] me while I tell you a short history. I will mention no names—you yourself will be able to supply them. All I have to ask of you further is that you will hear me to the end. The history is of father and son."
Stella did not move; she thought that he referred to the earl and Leycester. She had determined2 to listen calmly until the five minutes were expired, and then to go—to go without a word.
"The father was an eminent3 painter"—Stella started slightly, but kept her eyes fixed on the clock—"a man who was highly gifted, of a rare and noble mind, and possessed4 of undeniable genius. Even as a young man his gifts were meeting with acknowledgment. He married a woman above him in station, beautiful, and fashionable, but altogether unworthy of him. As might have been expected, the marriage turned out ill. The wife, having nothing in common with her high-souled husband, plunged6 into the world, and was swallowed up in its vortex. I do not wish to speak of her further; she brought him shame."
Stella paled to the lips.
"Shame so deep that he cast aside his ambition and left the world. Casting away his old life, and separating himself entirely7 from it—separating himself from the child which the woman who had betrayed him had born to him—he settled in a remote country village, forgotten and effaced8. The son was brought up by guardians9 appointed by the father, who could never bring himself to see him. This boy went to school, to college, was launched, so to speak, on the world without a father's care. The evil results which usually follow such a starting followed here. The boy, left to himself, or at best to the hired
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| adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的 | |
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determined
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eminent
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| adj.显赫的,杰出的,有名的,优良的 | |
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possessed
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plunged
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| v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 );暴跌;骤降;突降 | |
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entirely
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| 监护人( guardian的名词复数 ); 保护者,维护者 | |
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guardianship
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steadily
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doom
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doomed
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expiation
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lash
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lashed
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outraged
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outrage
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distended
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inflexible
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gnat
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| 网孔( mesh的名词复数 ); 网状物; 陷阱; 困境 | |
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gratitude
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averted
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| 防止,避免( avert的过去式和过去分词 ); 转移 | |
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spoke
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| 猛打,重击,打击( smite的过去分词 ) | |
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forgery
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hoarse
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imploring
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| 恳求的,哀求的 | |
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constable
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| n.(英国)警察,警官 | |
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custody
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unnatural
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numbed
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watchful
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shuddering
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| v.战栗( shudder的现在分词 );发抖;(机器、车辆等)突然震动;颤动 | |
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assent
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crimson
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beads
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inquiry
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hurled
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stammered
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enraged
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cane
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anguish
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| n.(尤指心灵上的)极度痛苦,烦恼 | |
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weird
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| adj.古怪的,离奇的;怪诞的,神秘而可怕的 | |
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loathsome
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entrap
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tune
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| n.调子;和谐,协调;v.调音,调节,调整 | |
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