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When Barrant learnt from the trembling lips of Mrs. Pendleton that she had not seen her niece since that morning, his first step was to get Sisily’s full description, and call up Dawfield on the hotel telephone with instructions to have all the railway stations between Penzance and London warned to look out for her. That was a necessary precaution, but it did not need Dawfield’s hesitating information about time tables to convince him that it was almost futile1. The later of the two trains by which Sisily might have fled from Cornwall had reached London and discharged its passengers somewhere about the time that Mr. Peter Portgartha, in the depth of the rumbling2 wagonette, was paying his tribute to shrinking female modesty3 as exhibited on Mousehole rocks.
After doing this Barrant returned to the empty lounge, where Mrs. Pendleton sat in partial darkness with tearful face. All the other guests had retired4, and a lurking5 porter yawned longingly6 in the passage, waiting for an opportunity to put out the last of the lights and get to bed.
In the first shock of Barrant’s violent apparition7 and angry questions, Mrs. Pendleton had tried, in a bewildered way, to insist that her niece had not left her room on the previous night. But now, in her troubled consideration of the new strange turn of events surrounding her brother’s death, she saw that she might have been deceived on this point. Barrant, for his part, had not the slightest doubt of it when he heard that her belief rested on no stronger foundation than Sisily’s early withdrawal8 from the dining-room on the plea of fatigue9, and the fact that her bedroom door was locked when Mrs. Pendleton returned from her own visit to Flint House. Sisily’s subsequent flight eliminated any
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abruptly
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interpretation
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n.解释,说明,描述;艺术处理 | |
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investigation
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realization
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plausibly
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complexion
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a.正当的,有理的 | |
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v.恳求,恳请 | |
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adj.热情的,热烈的,激昂的,易动情的,易怒的,性情暴躁的 | |
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n.疯狂,狂热,极度的激动 | |
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v.(使)醒( awaken的过去式和过去分词 );(使)觉醒;弄醒;(使)意识到 | |
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lamentable
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generosity
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n.大度,慷慨,慷慨的行为 | |
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dictate
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v.口授;(使)听写;指令,指示,命令 | |
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reconstruction
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accomplice
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accomplishment
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危及,损害( jeopardize的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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