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The Fugitive
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On the evening of the day which succeeded that of the visit to the Fairy Island the baronet and his family were seated in the drawing-room, and Lady Clairmont was arranging with her husband their plans for the reception of their uncle, Mr. Geoffrey Clairmont, from whom a letter had been just received intimating his intention of being with them the next day to a late dinner, but requesting they would not make any material addition to their table, as a white soup, a turbot, a little venison, and a pheasant would be all he should require, or if his fancy stood for any bonnes bouches, his factotum1, Monsieur Melange2 (his valet, cook, and occasional secretary) would bring materials for preparing them.
The party were amusing themselves with admiring the modest simplicity3 of the old gentleman's bill of fare when Denton, the house-steward4, ran in, and, staring wildly around, exclaimed: 'Thank goodness everybody is here!' then, darting5 forward to an open door which looked upon the lawn, he shut and locked it, and slammed down the sashes with the greatest precipitation, then,[Pg 257] turning to Sir William, said: 'Pray, sir, please to come out of the room with me this moment.'
The baronet followed him outside the door, while the careful servant, still holding it ajar, added: 'Pray, ladies and gentlemen, don't stir out of this room, pray don't.' He then shut and locked the door.
'Why, what ails6 you, Denton; what is all this about?' said the baronet. 'One would think you had been bit by a mad dog.'
'Not exactly that, Sir William,' replied the man, quivering in every limb, 'but I fear we may all be bit, before an hour is over our heads, by something quite as bad.'
He then informed his master that the keeper of a caravan7 of wild beasts had just come to the castle, and stated that in going through the nearest market-town his vehicle had been upset, and the damage which ensued had given an opportunity for one of his most valuable animals, a Bengal tiger, to make its escape, that he and two of the keepers had tracked it as far as the Warren on the Clairmont estate, and he had come to beg assistance from the castle, while the other two stood armed on each side a gap in the Warren where they thought it was hid, and from whence, should it attempt to issue, they hoped, by help from Sir William, to
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factotum
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n.杂役;听差 | |
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n.混合物;大杂烩 | |
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v.投掷,投射( dart的现在分词 );向前冲,飞奔 | |
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n.嗜食者 | |
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gourmands
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virtues
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mischief
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consequentially
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imprisonment
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flask
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n.伤口,刻痕;苏格兰威士忌酒;v.粉碎,消灭,阻止;adj.苏格兰(人)的 | |
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n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 );钱;(英国十九世纪初的)花花公子;(用于某些表达方式)责任v.(马等)猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 );抵制;猛然震荡;马等尥起后蹄跳跃 | |
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coup
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妨碍,束缚,限制( hamper的第三人称单数 ) | |
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grouse
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vice
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n.壁凹( recess的名词复数 );(工作或业务活动的)中止或暂停期间;学校的课间休息;某物内部的凹形空间v.把某物放在墙壁的凹处( recess的第三人称单数 );将(墙)做成凹形,在(墙)上做壁龛;休息,休会,休庭 | |
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majesty
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treatise
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sardines
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reindeer
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untoward
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