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CHAPTER 12
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At the return of summer Abbé Faujas and his mother again came downstairs to enjoy the fresh air on the terrace. Mouret had become very cross-grained. He declined the old lady's[Pg 134] invitations to play piquet and sat swaying himself about on a chair. Seeing him yawn, without making any attempt to conceal1 how bored he was feeling, Marthe said to him:
'Why don't you go to your club, my dear?'
He now went there more frequently than he had been used to do. When he returned he found his wife and the Abbé still in the same place on the terrace, while Madame Faujas, a few yards away from them, preserved the demeanour of a blind and dumb guardian2.
When anyone in the town spoke3 to Mouret of the new Curé he still continued to sound his praises. Faujas, said he, was decidedly a superior sort of man, and he himself had never felt any doubt of his great abilities. Madame Paloque could never succeed in drawing a hostile word from him on the subject of the priest, in spite of the malicious4 way in which she would ask him after his wife in the midst of his remarks about Abbé Faujas. Old Madame Rougon had no better success in her attempts to unveil the secret troubles which she thought she could detect beneath Mouret's outward show of cheerfulness. She laid all sorts of traps for him as she watched his face with her sharp shrewd smile; but that inveterate5 chatterer, whose tongue was a regular town-crier's bell, now showed the greatest reserve when any reference was made to his household.
'So your husband has become reasonable at last?' Félicité remarked to her daughter one day. 'He leaves you free.'
Marthe looked at her mother with an air of surprise.
'I have always been free,' she said.
'Ah! my dear child, I see that you don't want to say anything against him. You told me once that he looked very unfavourably upon Abbé Faujas.'
'Nothing of the kind, I assure you! You must have imagined it. My husband is upon the best terms with Abbé Faujas. There is nothing whatever to make them otherwise.'
Marthe was much astonished at the
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17 adversary | |
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21 amiability | |
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22 intercourse | |
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24 reverence | |
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25 gambling | |
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26 gaol | |
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28 distressing | |
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29 assailed | |
v.攻击( assail的过去式和过去分词 );困扰;质问;毅然应对 | |
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30 distressed | |
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31 stainless | |
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32 wailing | |
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33 dwelling | |
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37 affected | |
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38 reassure | |
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39 melancholy | |
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40 alleging | |
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41 magistrate | |
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46 remonstrating | |
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47 sanctimonious | |
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48 pious | |
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49 sneering | |
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50 recollected | |
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51 avarice | |
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52 billiards | |
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53 license | |
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54 tolerance | |
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55 worthy | |
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56 guild | |
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57 jeered | |
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58 tack | |
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59 astonishment | |
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60 fully | |
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61 approbation | |
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62 enrolled | |
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63 skull | |
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64 crafty | |
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65 practitioner | |
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67 monastery | |
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68 astounded | |
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69 divans | |
n.(可作床用的)矮沙发( divan的名词复数 );(波斯或其他东方诗人的)诗集 | |
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70 thither | |
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71 crates | |
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72 contrived | |
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73 doorway | |
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74 crimson | |
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77 besought | |
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78 presidency | |
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79 adherence | |
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80 concealed | |
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81 underneath | |
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82 jeering | |
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83 confession | |
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84 gaily | |
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85 vexed | |
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86 unwilling | |
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87 irreproachable | |
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88 fig | |
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89 brotherhood | |
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90 consternation | |
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91 adviser | |
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92 admiration | |
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93 attentively | |
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94 embarrassment | |
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95 determined | |
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96 dishonouring | |
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97 withdrawn | |
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98 drawn | |
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99 possessed | |
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100 postponed | |
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101 applicant | |
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102 effusive | |
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103 bent | |
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104 impasse | |
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105 alley | |
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106 deserted | |
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