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CHAPTER 23
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Macquart did not find Porquier at home, and so the doctor only reached Madame Rougon's at nearly half-past twelve. The whole house was still in commotion1. Rougon himself was the only one who had not got out of bed. Emotion had a killing2 effect upon him, said he. Félicité, who was still seated in the same armchair by Marthe's bedside, rose to meet the doctor.
'Oh, my dear doctor, we are so very anxious!' she murmured. 'The poor child has never stirred since we put her to bed there. Her hands are already quite cold. I have kept them in my own, but it has done no good.'
Doctor Porquier scanned Marthe's face, and then, without making any further examination, he compressed his lips and made a vague gesture with his hands.
'My dear Madame Rougon,' he said, 'you must summon up your courage.'
Félicité burst into sobs4.
'The end is at hand,' the doctor continued in a lower voice. 'I have been expecting this sad termination for a long time past; I must confess so much now. Both of poor Madame Mouret's lungs are diseased, and in her case phthisis has been complicated by nervous derangement5.'
He took a seat, and a smile played about his lips, the[Pg 317] smile of the polished doctor who thinks that even in the presence of death itself suave6 politeness is demanded of him.
'Don't give way and make yourself ill, my dear lady. The catastrophe7 was inevitable8 and any little accident might have hastened it. I should imagine that poor Madame Mouret must have been subject to coughing when she was very young; wasn't she? I should say that the germs of the disease have been spreading within her for a good many years past. Latterly, and especially within the last three years, phthisis has been making frightful9 strides in her. How
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diabolical
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astonishment
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bulging
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膨胀; 凸出(部); 打气; 折皱 | |
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intervention
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(使某人)窒息而死( suffocate的过去式和过去分词 ); (将某人)闷死; 让人感觉闷热; 憋气 | |
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v.战粟,震动,剧烈地摇晃;n.战粟,抖动 | |
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impasse
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裂缝( chasm的名词复数 ); 裂口; 分歧; 差别 | |
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gaping
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interval
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brilliance
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gushing
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