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CHAPTER XX. TWO WITNESSES.
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Mr. Prendergast had given himself two days to do all that was to be done, before he told Herbert Fitzgerald the whole of the family history. He had promised that he would then let him know all that there was to be known; and he had done so advisedly, considering that it would be manifestly unjust to leave him in the dark an hour longer than was absolutely necessary. To expect that Sir Thomas himself should, with his own breath and his own words, make the revelation either to his son or to his wife, was to expect a manifest impossibility. He would, altogether, have sank under such an effort, as he had already sank under the effort of telling it to Mr. Prendergast; nor could it be left to the judgment1 of Sir Thomas to say when the story should be told. He had now absolutely abandoned all judgment in the matter. He had placed himself in the hands of a friend, and he now expected that that friend should do all that there was to be done. Mr. Prendergast had therefore felt himself justified2 in making this promise.
But how was he to set about the necessary intervening work, and how pass the intervening hours? It had already been decided3 that Mr. Abraham Mollett, when he called, should be shown, as usual, into the study, but that he should there find himself confronted, not with Sir Thomas, but with Mr. Prendergast. But there was some doubt whether or no Mr. Mollett would come. It might be that he had means of ascertaining4 what strangers arrived at Castle Richmond; and it might be, that he would, under the present circumstances, think it expedient5 to stay away. This visit, however, was not to take place till the second day after that on which Mr. Prendergast had heard the story; and, in the meantime, he had that examination of Mrs. Jones to arrange and conduct.
The breakfast was again very sad. The girls suggested to their brother that he and Mr. Prendergast should sit together by themselves in a small breakfast parlour, but to this he would not assent6. Nothing could be more difficult or embarrassing than a conversation between himself and that gentleman, and he moreover was
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judgment
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n.审判;判断力,识别力,看法,意见 | |
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a.正当的,有理的 | |
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adj.有用的,有利的;n.紧急的办法,权宜之计 | |
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utterly
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consultations
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urn
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immediate
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applied
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instinctive
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apron
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pointed
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meek
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obedience
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justify
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grandeur
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n.伟大,崇高,宏伟,庄严,豪华 | |
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confidential
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spoke
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impudent
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scruples
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expressive
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candidly
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marred
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standing
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coax
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positively
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determined
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demure
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unnaturally
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pretence
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constrained
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wont
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relinquish
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contrived
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perspicuity
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entirely
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remittance
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countenance
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wretch
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desolate
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chattering
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n. (机器振动发出的)咔嗒声,(鸟等)鸣,啁啾 adj. 喋喋不休的,啾啾声的 动词chatter的现在分词形式 | |
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torment
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misery
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confidentially
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uncommonly
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cork
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ushered
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pecuniary
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adj.金钱的;金钱上的 | |
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miscreant
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quelled
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bluster
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thoroughly
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dreads
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abject
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descending
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lodge
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heed
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alluded
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提及,暗指( allude的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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implicated
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touching
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concealing
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distress
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mutual
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intelligible
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leech
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gorged
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leeches
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veins
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humbly
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sobbed
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哭泣,啜泣( sob的过去式和过去分词 ); 哭诉,呜咽地说 | |
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prosecuted
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perilous
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sobs
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啜泣(声),呜咽(声)( sob的名词复数 ) | |
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