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"Unexpected obstacle. Please don't come till thirtieth.
Anna."All the way from Charing1 Cross to Dover the train hadhammered the words of the telegram into George Darrow'sears, ringing every change of irony2 on its commonplacesyllables: rattling3 them out like a discharge of musketry,letting them, one by one, drip slowly and coldly into hisbrain, or shaking, tossing, transposing them like the dicein some game of the gods of malice4; and now, as he emergedfrom his compartment5 at the pier6, and stood facing the wind-swept platform and the angry sea beyond, they leapt out athim as if from the crest7 of the waves, stung and blinded himwith a fresh fury of derision.
"Unexpected obstacle. Please don't come till thirtieth.
Anna."She had put him off at the very last moment, and for thesecond time: put him off with all her sweet reasonableness,and for one of her usual "good" reasons--he was certain thatthis reason, like the other, (the visit of her husband'suncle's widow) would be "good"! But it was that verycertainty which chilled him. The fact of her dealing8 soreasonably with their case shed an ironic9 light on the ideathat there had been any exceptional warmth in the greetingshe had given him after their twelve years apart.
They had found each other again, in London, some threemonths previously10, at a dinner at the American Embassy, andwhen she had caught sight of him her smile had been like ared rose pinned on her widow's mourning. He still felt thethrob of surprise with which, among the

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n.炭化v.把…烧成炭,把…烧焦( char的现在分词 );烧成炭,烧焦;做杂役女佣 | |
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n.反语,冷嘲;具有讽刺意味的事,嘲弄 | |
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exclamation
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postponement
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prod
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n.不幸的人( wretch的名词复数 );可怜的人;恶棍;坏蛋 | |
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诉诸(武力),施行(暴力),发(脾气)( wreak的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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vengeance
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enjoyment
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n.乐趣;享有;享用 | |
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outraged
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promiscuous
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