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Nurnberg at the time was not so much exploited as it has been since then. Irving had not been playing Faust, and the very name of the old town was hardly known to the great bulk of the travelling public. My wife and I being in the second week of our honeymoon1, naturally wanted someone else to join our party, so that when the cheery stranger, Elias P. Hutcheson, hailing from Isthmian City, Bleeding Gulch2, Maple3 Tree County, Neb. turned up at the station at Frankfort, and casually4 remarked that he was going on to see the most all-fired old Methuselah of a town in Yurrup, and that he guessed that so much travelling alone was enough to send an intelligent, active citizen into the melancholy5 ward6 of a daft house, we took the pretty broad hint and suggested that we should join forces. We found, on comparing notes afterwards, that we had each intended to speak with some diffidence or hesitation7 so as not to appear too eager, such not being a good compliment to the success of our married life; but the effect was entirely8 marred9 by our both beginning to speak at the same instant—stopping simultaneously10 and then going on together again. Anyhow, no matter how, it was done; and Elias P. Hutcheson became one of our party. Straightway Amelia and I found the pleasant benefit; instead of quarrelling, as we had been doing, we found that the restraining influence of a third party was such that we now took every opportunity of spooning in odd corners. Amelia declares that ever since she has, as the result of that experience, advised all her friends to take a friend on the honeymoon. Well, we 'did' Nurnberg together, and much enjoyed the racy remarks of our Transatlantic friend, who, from his
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honeymoon
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maple
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| (通常指围起来的)果园( orchard的名词复数 ) | |
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virgin
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prettily
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pebble
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variegated
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busted
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gateway
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custodian
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chamber
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incarnate
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masonry
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inadequate
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prospect
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civilisation
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buffalo
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