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It was from Mrs. Pendleton that Mr. Brimsdown gained his first real knowledge of the drama of strange events surrounding Robert Turold’s death. In response to his call at the hotel she came down from her room fingering his card nervously1, her eyes reddened with weeping, and an air of tremulous bewilderment about her which sat ill on her massive personality.
The lawyer greeted her with formal courtesy. He was newly shaved and bathed, his linen2 was spotless, and his elderly grey eyes looked out with alert watchfulness3 on a world of trickery.
“As your late brother’s legal adviser4 for many years, I felt it incumbent5 upon me to come down,” he said, fixing a grave glance on the distracted lady before him. “It seemed to me that I might be of some use, perhaps, assistance. That is the object of my call.”
The fact that she had not seen Mr. Brimsdown before did not lessen6 the hysterical7 gratitude8 with which Mrs. Pendleton received this piece of information. The events of the last forty-eight hours had shaken her badly. Her brother’s tragic9 death, and the terrible suspicion which enveloped10 Sisily, had stripped her of her strength, and left her with a feminine longing11 to cast her burden on a man’s shoulders. She had discovered to her dismay that a husband who has been snubbed and kept under for twenty years is apt to prove a thing of straw when a woman likes to feel that the male sex was devised by
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adviser
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discreetly
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royalty
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graveyard
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(用力)拧( wrest的过去式和过去分词 ); 费力取得; (从…)攫取; ( 从… ) 强行取去… | |
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ironical
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impulsiveness
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impulsive
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conjectures
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推测,猜想( conjecture的名词复数 ) | |
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innocence
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temperament
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testily
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n.检查员,监察员,视察员 | |
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solicitor
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n.初级律师,事务律师 | |
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adj.显赫的,杰出的,有名的,优良的 | |
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perused
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adj.经检验证明无病的,经检验证明无菌的v.证明( attest的过去式和过去分词 );证实;声称…属实;使宣誓 | |
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unconditionally
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bequests
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n.遗赠( bequest的名词复数 );遗产,遗赠物 | |
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annuities
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folly
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n.愚笨,愚蠢,蠢事,蠢行,傻话 | |
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reproof
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n.斥责,责备 | |
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investigation
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n.调查,调查研究 | |
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remarkable
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binding
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prosecute
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vt.告发;进行;vi.告发,起诉,作检察官 | |
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devoted
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considerably
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investigations
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reluctance
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