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CHAPTER II. IN THE SYCAMORE WALK.
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The Park Newton clocks, with more or less unanimity1 as to time, had just struck ten. It was a February night, clear and frosty, and Lionel Dering sat in his dressing-room in slippered2 ease, musing3 by firelight. He had turned out the lamp on purpose; it was too garish4 for his mood to-night. He was back again in thought at Gatehouse Farm. Again he saw the gray old cottage, with its moss-grown eaves--the cottage that was so ugly outside, but so cosy5 within. Again he saw the long low sandhills, where they stretched themselves out to meet the horizon, and, in fancy, heard again the low, monotonous6 plash of the waves, whose melancholy7 music, heard by day and night, had at one time been as familiar to him as the sound of his own voice. What a quiet, happy time that seemed as he now looked back to it--a time of soft shadows and mild sunshine, with a pensive8 charm that was all its own, and that was lost for ever in the hour which told him that he was a rich man! Riches! What had riches done for him? He groaned9 in spirit as he asked himself the question. He could have been happy with Edith in a garret--how happy none but himself could have told--had fortune compelled him to earn her bread and his own by the sweat of his strong right arm.
His musings were interrupted by a knock at the door. "Come in," he called out mechanically; and in there came, almost without, a sound, Dobbs, body-servant to Kester St. George.
"Oh, Dobbs, is that you?" said Lionel, a little wearily, as he turned his head and saw who it was.
"Yes, sir, I have made bold to intrude
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bribe
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gratitude
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美德( virtue的名词复数 ); 德行; 优点; 长处 | |
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分开( diverge的过去式和过去分词 ); 偏离; 分歧; 分道扬镳 | |
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dispensing
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v.分配( dispense的现在分词 );施与;配(药) | |
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latch
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adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的 | |
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viper
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sullenly
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不高兴地,绷着脸,忧郁地 | |
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passionately
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ad.热烈地,激烈地 | |
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exhausted
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kindly
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bedlam
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