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The light of the October afternoon lay on an old high-roofedhouse which enclosed in its long expanse of brick andyellowish stone the breadth of a grassy1 court filled withthe shadow and sound of limes.
From the escutcheoned piers2 at the entrance of the court alevel drive, also shaded by limes, extended to a white-barred gate beyond which an equally level avenue of grass,cut through a wood, dwindled3 to a blue-green blur4 against asky banked with still white slopes of cloud.
In the court, half-way between house and drive, a ladystood. She held a parasol above her head, and looked now atthe house-front, with its double flight of steps meetingbefore a glazed5 door under sculptured trophies6, now down thedrive toward the grassy cutting through the wood. Her airwas less of expectancy7 than of contemplation: she seemed notso much to be watching for any one, or listening for anapproaching sound, as letting the whole aspect of the placesink into her while she held herself open to its influence.
Yet it was no less apparent that the scene was not new toher. There was no eagerness of investigation8 in her survey:
she seemed rather to be looking about her with eyes towhich, for some intimate inward reason, details long sincefamiliar had suddenly acquired an unwonted freshness.
This was in fact the exact sensation of which Mrs. Leath wasconscious as she came forth9 from the house and descendedinto the sunlit court. She had come to meet her step-son,who was likely to be returning at that hour from anafternoon's shooting in one of the more distant plantations,and she carried in her hand the letter which had sent her insearch of him; but with her first step out of the house allthought of him had been

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throng
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pictorial
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serene
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evoker
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crimsons
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变为深红色(crimson的第三人称单数形式) | |
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strutting
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illusive
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刺绣( embroidery的名词复数 ); 刺绣品; 刺绣法 | |
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possessed
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exclusion
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repression
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enigma
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reprobation
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glades
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irony
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terrapin
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undoubtedly
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jealousy
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algebra
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irresistible
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indifference
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rigid
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remarkable
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allusion
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cosmopolitan
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worthy
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supreme
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delightful
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subversiveness
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颠覆;破坏 | |
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anarchist
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conformity
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