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Chapter 7 OVERBURDENED.
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Carice Bergan was gifted with instincts singularly quick and delicate. She had not long breathed the same atmosphere with Astra and Doctor Remy before she felt it growing heavy around her with some intensity1 of emotion which she neither shared nor understood. It might be sympathy, it might be aversion; in either case, its effect was to make her feel confused and constrained2, in their presence. At one moment, she seemed to behold3 them afar off, as it were, in a sphere of their own, whither she had neither the right nor the ability to follow them; at another, she felt herself standing4 between them, barring their way to a free and satisfactory interchange of thought and feeling; and again, she believed that Doctor Remy alone was responsible for her discomfort5, interrupting, by his presence, the cordial flow of sympathy between Astra and herself. At any rate, it would be a relief to escape from so oppressive an atmosphere; accordingly, she took her departure, leaving the lovers—if such they can be called—together.
Certainly, there was nothing lover-like in the manner with which they faced each other, a few moments after the door had closed behind her. That brief interval6 had been spent by both in preparation for the crisis which the one knew, and the other felt, to be approaching. Astra awaited it with a mixture of eagerness and dread7; she was weary of wearing the checkered8 tissue of suspense9 and anxiety; she would be glad to know exactly what was in store for her, even though the bitter fruit of such knowledge should be mortification10
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reluctance
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intimacy
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propriety
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investigation
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vt./vi.传下来,下来,下降 | |
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admiration
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moulder
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美德( virtue的名词复数 ); 德行; 优点; 长处 | |
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candor
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prey
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corpse
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capabilities
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miserably
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perverted
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captiousness
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affected
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