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CHAPTER XI
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Miriam sat with her mother near the bandstand. They faced the length of the esplanade with the row of houses that held their lodging1 to their right and the sea away to the left. She had found that it was better to sit facing a moving vista2; forms passing by too near to be looked at and people moving in the distance too far away to suggest anything. The bandstand had filled. The town-clock struck eleven. Presently the band would begin to play. Any minute now. It had begun. The introduction to its dreamiest waltz was murmuring in a conversational3 undertone. The stare of the esplanade rippled4 and broke. The idling visitors became vivid blottings. The house-rows stood out in lines and angles. The short solemn symphony was over. Full and soft and ripe the euphonium began the beat of the waltz. It beat gently within the wooden kiosk. The fluted5 melody went out across the sea. The sparkling
ripples6 rocked gently against the melody. A rousing theme would have been more welcome to the suffering at her side. She waited for the loud gay jerky tripping of the second movement. When it crashed brassily out the scene grew vivid. The air seemed to move; freshness of air and sea coming from the busy noise of the kiosk. The restless fingers ceased straying and plucking. The suffering had shifted. The night was over. When the waltz was over they would be able to talk a little. There would be something ... a goat-chaise; a pug with a solemn injured face. Until the waltz came to an end she turned towards the sea, wandering out over the gleaming ripples, hearing their soft sound, snuffing freshness, seeing the water just below her eyes, transparent7 green and blue and mauve, salt-filmed.
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The big old woman’s voice grated on about Poole’s Miriorama. She had been a seven-mile walk before lunch and meant to go to Poole’s Miriorama. She knew everything there was in it and went to it every summer and for long walks and washed lace in her room and borrowed an iron from Miss Meldrum. No one listened and
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lodging
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| n.寄宿,住所;(大学生的)校外宿舍 | |
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| n.远景,深景,展望,回想 | |
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conversational
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spoke
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deference
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exhaustion
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nag
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affected
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caravan
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softened
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flannels
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| 法兰绒男裤; 法兰绒( flannel的名词复数 ) | |
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tarpaulin
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riddles
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sip
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pompous
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twilight
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intensity
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brilliance
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serene
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blessing
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supreme
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casually
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frantically
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fumes
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puff
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fatigue
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hovering
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bent
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manly
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lissome
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steadily
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ardently
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resentment
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collapsing
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condemnation
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sleepless
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sleeplessness
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beetles
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crafty
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testament
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drowsy
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dabbed
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benevolence
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confession
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deserted
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quenched
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