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I arrived at Neufchatel at the gracious hour when the sun is paling; and I was at once charmed with the kindly1 aspect of this little Norman town.
The house-fronts gleaming with fresh paint, the pigeons picking their way across the streets, the grass growing between the cobble-stones, the flowers outside the windows and doors, a cleanliness that adorns2 the smallest details: all this is so calm and so empty that our life at once settles there as in a frame that takes with equal ease the happy or the sad picture which we propose to fit into it.
It reminds me of Bruges, whose infinite, patient calm is a clean page on which the visitor's life is printed, happy or distressful3 at will, since there is nothing to define its character. It also has the silence of the little Flemish towns, with their streets without carriages or wayfarers4. The gardens look as though they were artificial; and in the frame of
the open windows we see interiors which are as sharp as pictures.
Leading out of the main street is a mysterious little alley5, dark and badly paved. It runs upwards6 and ends in a clump7 of trees arching against the blue of the sky. There is no visible gate or doorway8. I turn up it. All along a high wall hang old fire-backs, bas-reliefs of cracked, rusty9-red iron, once licked by the flames, now washed by the rain.
I loiter to examine the subjects: coats of arms, trophies10 of weapons, or allegories and half-obliterated love-scenes. It is curious to see these
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kindly
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| adj.和蔼的,温和的,爽快的;adv.温和地,亲切地 | |
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adorns
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| 装饰,佩带( adorn的第三人称单数 ) | |
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wayfarers
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alley
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clump
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doorway
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trophies
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relics
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conjuring
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hearth
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laden
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fragrance
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junction
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shrubs
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picturesque
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boughs
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spires
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pretentious
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humble
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patchwork
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adorned
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flaunting
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leash
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confession
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malice
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ostentation
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humility
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gratitude
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requisites
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shutters
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| 百叶窗( shutter的名词复数 ); (照相机的)快门 | |
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ledges
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starry
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starched
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| v.呼出,发散出( exhale的过去式和过去分词 );吐出(肺中的空气、烟等),呼气 | |
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incense
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| v.激怒;n.香,焚香时的烟,香气 | |
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musk
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| n.麝香, 能发出麝香的各种各样的植物,香猫 | |
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haze
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graceful
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| adj.优美的,优雅的;得体的 | |
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whitewashed
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| 粉饰,美化,掩饰( whitewash的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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intervals
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| n.[军事]间隔( interval的名词复数 );间隔时间;[数学]区间;(戏剧、电影或音乐会的)幕间休息 | |
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symbolical
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simplicity
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rustic
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lethargic
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exhales
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| v.呼出,发散出( exhale的第三人称单数 );吐出(肺中的空气、烟等),呼气 | |
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repose
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ingenuously
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| adv.率直地,正直地 | |
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endearment
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Christian
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| adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒 | |
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appreciation
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immediate
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boredom
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notary
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caressing
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spoke
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inhaling
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vibration
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agitation
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sincerity
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scented
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throbbing
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