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CHAPTER XV
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THEY were in Paris. A half year had passed, and the bond of love so suddenly tied had loosened, and at last been broken. Marie and Sti H?gh were slowly slipping apart. Both knew it, though they had not put the fact into words. The confession1 hid so much pain and bitterness, so much abasement2 and self-scorn, that they shrank from uttering it.
In this they were one, but in their manner of bearing their distress3 they were widely different. Sti H?gh grieved ceaselessly in impotent misery4, dulled by his very pain against the sharpest stings of that pain, despairing like a captured animal that paces back and forth5, back and forth, in its narrow cage. Marie was more like a wild creature escaped from captivity6, fleeing madly, without rest or pause, driven on and ever on by frantic7 fear of the chain that drags clanking in its track.
She wanted to forget, but forgetfulness is like the heather: it grows of its own free will, and not all the care and labor8 in the world can add an inch to its height. She poured out gold from overflowing9 hands and purchased luxury. She caught at every cup of pleasure that wealth could buy or wit and beauty and rank could procure10, but all in vain. There was no end to her wretchedness, and nothing, nothing could take it from her. If the mere11 parting from Sti H?gh could have eased her pain or even shifted the burden, she would have left him long ago, but no, it was all the same, no spark of hope anywhere. As well be together as apart, since there was no relief either way.
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confession
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abasement
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distress
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misery
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captivity
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frantic
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labor
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procure
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landlady
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drearily
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compassionate
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daggers
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| 匕首,短剑( dagger的名词复数 ) | |
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shameful
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loathe
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remorse
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miserable
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cringing
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spoke
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abject
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naught
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counterfeiter
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entreat
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humbly
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shrugged
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receding
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spires
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luminous
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tints
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willow
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maple
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glide
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eddies
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twilight
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transparent
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vessels
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murmurs
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trickles
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alleys
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pinnacles
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flaunting
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myriads
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serene
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groaning
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swarming
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| 密集( swarm的现在分词 ); 云集; 成群地移动; 蜜蜂或其他飞行昆虫成群地飞来飞去 | |
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chubby
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crabbed
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landladies
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tavern
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miseries
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jades
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license
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memento
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bosom
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maidens
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festive
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bent
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goblet
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splendor
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virtue
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beacon
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fervent
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exultant
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fragrant
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longing
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reverence
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diadem
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