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Clifford.—Well done, Bigla Cumin! If ever I marry, I am resolved to have a fearless wife who can gallop1 across a country. But hey!—(stretching himself as we arose to proceed)—I protest I am quite stiff. Confound your green velvety3 grass! commend me rather to your velvet2 cushion of Genoa. Your story was too long, Mr. Macpherson, and by far too interesting for a breezy hill-side and a dewy bank like this.
Clifford.—Tut, man, I’d sit in a snow-wreath, or on a glacier5, to listen to you. But, hark ye! what was that you muttered, before you began your story, about leaving us?
Dominie.—Really I cannot speak it without vurra great pain, Mr. Clifford; but my path disparts from your road a little way on here. I have to wend my way through the whole extent of these wild forests, which you see below us there, stretching across the intermediate country between us and the misty6 Cairngorums yonder. I am journeying to visit a brother of mine, who, as the elegant author of Douglas hath it,
“Feeds his flocks,
on the slopes of the mountains beyond.
Clifford.—Nay8, nay, we cannot part with you so. Had it been a lady, indeed, that you were going to visit, I should not have said a word. But for a brother merely.
Dominie (with the tear swelling10 in his eye).—Pardon me, Mr. Clifford, pardon me; but I have an affection for my brother which few can estimate. We were twin bairns. Ewan and I alone remain of all our family. I make a yearly journey to visit him.
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n.[物]散射;散乱,分散;在媒介质中的散播adj.散乱的;分散在不同范围的;广泛扩散的;(选票)数量分散的v.散射(scatter的ing形式);散布;驱散 | |
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