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Julia smiled all through this letter, and wondered if the original boy in some men ever grew up, and if even in the United States there were another Daniel Tay. Then she read it over again, and then she answered it. The moment she took up her pen she came to herself with a shock. She had been travelling between San Francisco and Bosquith, and now she realized that she had nothing to write him about but her work in the cause upon which she was embarked1. She had, these last months, bestowed2 barely a thought on all that had gone before, and she did not feel the least desire to write of anything else. Would it bore as well as disillusionize him? Well, what if it did? To write to him again was irresistible3, but she must write out her present self; if he didn’t answer—well—perhaps, so much the better.
But, beyond the subject, she was at no pains to bore him. She took pride in writing him a far better letter than her first and gave the liveliest possible account of her numerous adventures. She even told him all she had felt during those twenty-four hours in prison, something she had never intended to confide4 to any one; but although she would not have admitted it, she had a secret hankering for his complete sympathy and understanding.
“And you’ve no idea,” she concluded, “what a wonderful thing it is to have a vital interest in life, to live wholly outside of yourself, to strive for a sort of perfection, while at the same time your vanity is titillated5 with the thought that you are helping6 to make history. I really do not know whether I have any personal ambition left or not. When I started out I was consumed with it. This great cause was merely but a means to an end. But now—I don’t know whether it is because I have never a moment to think of myself, I am so busy, or whether the cause is so much greater than any individual can be—I don’t know. I don’t know. The balance may be struck later. The only thing I strive to hold on to is my sense of humor.”
When this letter was sealed, she had a sudden access of conscience and
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embarked
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conjure
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bleak
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immortality
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ego
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shrine
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memento
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spoke
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annoyance
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ardent
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militant
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militants
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humane
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callous
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dividends
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| 红利( dividend的名词复数 ); 股息; 被除数; (足球彩票的)彩金 | |
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pauper
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maternal
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nagging
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asinine
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frantic
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animated
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distinguished
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misery
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appalling
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possessed
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socialist
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abrupt
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gilded
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| a.镀金的,富有的 | |
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anarchy
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futile
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socialists
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confiscation
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aristocrat
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primal
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vagaries
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laboring
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mansion
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toll
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