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CHAPTER XIX
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WHEN he had disappeared down the street, Margaret sat staring at the ground, her color still high, her eyes holding a delicate, spiritual effulgence1, her breast rising and falling under stress of fiercely contending impulses, my Christian2 duty to forgive,” she argued. “I know he has repented3, and he couldn’t have been wholly to blame. His grosser nature was tempted4. He fell, but he loved me in a different way. He loves me still, or he wouldn’t want me now. He showed it in New York. He has suffered enough, and I ought to take him back. But can I? Can I? How could I forget, with her and his child right under my eyes? Perhaps, if I went to see her, that might help me decide. I ought to have gone, anyway. She really has had a hard life.”
With her hand on her breast, as though the thought had given her actual physical pain, she bowed for a few minutes; then she calmly rose, fastened the strings5 of her graceful6 hat under her pretty chin, and walked deliberately7 down to Mrs. Barry’s. Lionel was playing with some colored building-blocks on the porch, and looked up in vast surprise.
“Where is your mother?” Margaret asked, timidly. “May I see her?”
“She is in the studio,” the child said. “She is making a picture.”
At this moment Dora stepped out into the hall from a room on the right, and with a look of undisguised and almost perturbed8 surprise she came forward.
“Oh, she is beautiful—beautiful!” ran like a dart9 through the visitor’s brain. “She is a thousand times more now than she used to be; she has grown, developed. Such hair, such eyes, such color, such a perfect figure!”
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effulgence
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Christian
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| adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒 | |
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repented
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| 对(自己的所为)感到懊悔或忏悔( repent的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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tempted
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graceful
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deliberately
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perturbed
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dart
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immunity
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embarrassment
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recluse
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mellow
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degradation
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parlor
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| 用平头钉钉( tack的过去式和过去分词 ); 附加,增补; 帆船抢风行驶,用粗线脚缝 | |
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frankly
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admiration
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poise
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philosophical
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hypocrisy
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condemnatory
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hoarding
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earnings
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heed
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| v.耸肩(表示怀疑、冷漠、不知等) | |
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| n.鄙视,轻视;v.轻视,鄙视,不屑 | |
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