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CHAPTER I
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When Miriam got out of the train into the darkness she knew that there were woods all about her. The moist air was rich with the smell of trees—wet bark and branches—moss and lichen1, damp dead leaves. She stood on the dark platform snuffing the rich air. It was the end of her journey. Anything that might follow would be unreal compared to that moment. Little bulbs of yellow light further up the platform told her where she must turn to find the things she must go to meet. “How lovely the air is here.” ... The phrase repeated itself again and again, going with her up the platform towards the group of lights. It was all she could summon to meet the new situation. It satisfied her; it made her happy. It
was enough; but no one would think it was enough.
But the house was two miles off. She was safe for the present. Throughout the journey from London the two-mile drive from the station had stood between her and the house. The journey was a long solitary2 adventure; endless; shielded from thoughts of the new life ahead and leaving the past winter in the Gunnersbury villa3 far away; vanquished4, almost forgotten. She could only recall the hours she had spent shivering apathetically5 over small fires; a moment when she had brought a flush of tears to her mother’s eyes by suddenly telling her she was maddeningly unreasonable6, and another moment alone with her father when she had stood in the middle of the hearth-rug with her hands behind her and ordered him to abstain7 from argument with her in the presence of her mother—“because it gives her pain when I have to show you that I am at least as right as you are”—and he had stood cowed and silent.... Then the moment of accepting the new post, the last days of fear and isolation8 and helplessness in hard winter weather and the setting off in the main line train that had carried her away from everything—into
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vanquished
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dealing
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famished
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| 膨胀; 凸出(部); 打气; 折皱 | |
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copper
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| 发嘶嘶声( hiss的过去式和过去分词 ); 发嘘声表示反对 | |
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soda
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fragrant
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liking
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dome
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misty
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fragrance
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