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CHAPTER XXXIII DON BERNARDINO
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THE stranger held himself with, if possible, greater hauteur1 as he answered:
“I have that great honour.”
“And I, sir,” said Marjory, with a pride rivalling his own, “am an American!” Issue was joined.
For a period which from its strain seemed very long, though it was probably but a few seconds, they stood facing each other; types of the two races whose deadly contest was then the interest of the world. The time was at any rate sufficiently2 long for me to consider the situation, and to admire the types. It would have been hard to get a better representative of either, of the Latin as well as of the Anglo-Saxon. Don Bernardino, with his high aquiline3 nose and black eyes of eagle keenness, his proud bearing and the very swarthiness which told of Moorish4 descent, was, despite his modern clothes, just such a picture as Velasquez would have loved to paint, or as Fortuny might have made to live again.
And Marjory! She looked like the spirit of her free race, incarnate5. The boldness of her pose; her free bearing; her manifest courage and self belief; the absence of either prudery or self-consciousness; her picturesque6, noble beauty, as with set white face and flashing eyes she faced the enemy of her country, made a vision never to be forgotten. Even her racial enemy had unconsciously to fall into admiration7; and through it the[270] dominance of his masculine nature spoke8. His words were gracious, and the easy gracefulness9 of their delivery was no less marked because the calm was forced:
“Our nations alas
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hauteur
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sufficiently
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moorish
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| adj.沼地的,荒野的,生[住]在沼地的 | |
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incarnate
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admiration
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spoke
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disdain
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foes
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wreak
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vengeance
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appal
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foul
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dealing
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whines
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crave
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patriot
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patriotic
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haughtiness
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antagonism
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cipher
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acting
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motive
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concealment
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fragrance
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antagonist
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haughty
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hereditary
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tragic
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