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"AH, Mrs. Dressel, we were on the lookout1 for you--waiting for the curtain to rise. Your friend Miss Brent? Juliana, Mrs. Dressel's friend Miss Brent----"
Near the brilliantly-striped marquee that formed the axis2 of the Gaines garden-parties, Mr. Halford Gaines, a few paces from his wife and daughters, stood radiating a royal welcome on the stream of visitors pouring across the lawn. It was only to eyes perverted3 by a different social perspective that there could be any doubt as to the importance of the Gaines entertainments. To Hanaford itself they were epoch-making; and if any rebellious5 spirit had cherished a doubt of the fact, it would have been quelled6 by the official majesty7 of Mr. Gaines's frock-coat and the comprehensive cordiality of his manner.
There were moments when New York hung like a disquieting8 cloud on the social horizon of Mrs. Gaines and her daughters; but to Halford Gaines Hanaford was all in all. As an exponent9 of the popular and patriotic10 "good-enough-for-me" theory he stood in high favour at the Hanaford Club, where a too-keen consciousness of the metropolis11 was alternately combated by easy allusion12 and studied omission13, and where the unsettled fancies of youth were chastened and steadied by the reflection that, if Hanaford was good enough for Halford Gaines, it must offer opportunities commensurate with the largest ideas of life.

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n.注意,前途,瞭望台 | |
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lured
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吸引,引诱(lure的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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confession
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luncheon
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adj.争论不休的;(指问题等)棘手的;争论不休的问题;烦恼的v.使烦恼( vex的过去式和过去分词 );使苦恼;使生气;详细讨论 | |
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obtuseness
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gallantly
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kindling
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poignant
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intimacy
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aged
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jovially
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resolute
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reminder
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proffered
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breach
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vow
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standing
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incongruity
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