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CHAPTER XXXI.
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“And oft as ease and health retire,
To breezy lawn or forest-deep,
But thou who own’s t that earthy bed,
Collins’s Ode on Thomson.
Many years are now elapsed since I took up my residence in this sequestered4 hamlet. I retired5 to it in distaste with a world whose vices6 had robbed me of the dearest treasure of my heart. Two children cheered my solitude7, and in training them up to virtue8, I lost the remembrance of half my cares. My son, when qualified9, was sent to Oxford10, as a friend had promised to provide for him in the church; but my daughter was destined11 to retirement12, not only from the narrowness of my income, but from a thorough conviction it was best calculated to insure her felicity. Juliana was the child of innocence13 and content. She knew of no greater happiness than that of promoting mine, of no pleasures but what the hamlet could afford, and was one of the gayest, as well as the loveliest, of its daughters. One fatal evening I suffered her to go, with some of her young companions, to a
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sequestered
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retirement
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innocence
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libertine
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volatility
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disposition
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accomplished
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attachment
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delicacy
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prudence
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compliance
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lull
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veneration
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exertion
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exertions
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disapproved
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raptures
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requisite
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clandestine
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scrupulous
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parental
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plausibility
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persuasions
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solitary
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pious
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gratitude
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abated
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| 减少( abate的过去式和过去分词 ); 减去; 降价; 撤消(诉讼) | |
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entreated
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| 恳求,乞求( entreat的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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entreaty
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expiration
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regiment
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haughty
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abortive
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maliciously
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confided
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authorized
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determined
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bosom
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misery
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compassion
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frail
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prostrate
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averted
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fatigue
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complexion
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repose
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miserable
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dreary
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prospect
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afflicted
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consolatory
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beholding
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benefactor
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