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“VALCOURT’S GRIN”
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The lovely and high-born relict of a decrepit1 and enormously wealthy commoner, she had sustained her husband’s loss with a becoming display of sorrow, and passed with exquisite3 grace and discretion4 through the successive phases of the toilet indicative of connubial5 woe6. From a lovely chrysalis swathed in crape she had changed to a dove-colored moth7; the moth had become a heliotrope8 butterfly, on the point of changing its wings for a brighter pair, when the post brought her a letter from one of her dearest friends. It bore the Zurich postmark, and ran as follows:
“Hotel Schwert,
“Appenbad,
“June 18th.”
“I wonder, dear, whether you would mind being troubled with Val for a day? He is coming up from Seaton next Thursday on dentist’s leave, and one does not care that a boy of sixteen—one can consider Val a boy without stretching the imagination overmuch—should be drifting anchorless in town. You will find him grown and developed.... You see, I take it for granted, in my own rude way, that you have already said ‘Yes’ to my request.... The views here are divine—such miles of eye-flight over the Lake of Constance and the Rhine Valley! To quote poor Dynham, who suffered much from the whey-cure, ‘every prospect9 pleases, and only man is bile.’ Kiss Val for me. My dear, the thought of his future is a continual anxiety. 69The title to keep up, and an income of barely eight thousand pounds.... ‘Marry him,’ you will say; but to whom? American heiresses are beginning to have an exorbitant10 idea of their own value, and then Val’s is an open, simple nature—unworldly to a degree! Not that I, his mother, could wish him otherwise, but—you will understand and sympathize, I know! And boys are so easily molded by a woman who has charm! If you could drop a word here and there, calculated to bring him to a sense of the responsibility that rests upon his young shoulders, the duty of restoring the diminished fortunes of his house by a really sensible marriage.... I have
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luncheon
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弯曲或下垂,发蔫( droop的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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绞( wring的过去式和过去分词 ); 握紧(尤指别人的手); 把(湿衣服)拧干; 绞掉(水) | |
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n.(尤指心灵上的)极度痛苦,烦恼 | |
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vt.盘算,计议;周密考虑;注视,凝视 | |
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beholder
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beverage
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champagne
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眉毛( eyebrow的名词复数 ) | |
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embarrassment
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n.尴尬;使人为难的人(事物);障碍;窘迫 | |
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admiration
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n.钦佩,赞美,羡慕 | |
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shimmering
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v.闪闪发光,发微光( shimmer的现在分词 ) | |
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sleek
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adj.光滑的,井然有序的;v.使光滑,梳拢 | |
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yearning
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a.渴望的;向往的;怀念的 | |
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misty
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adj.雾蒙蒙的,有雾的 | |
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uncommonly
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adv. 稀罕(极,非常) | |
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sniffed
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v.以鼻吸气,嗅,闻( sniff的过去式和过去分词 );抽鼻子(尤指哭泣、患感冒等时出声地用鼻子吸气);抱怨,不以为然地说 | |
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vi.嗅…味道;抽鼻涕;对嗤之以鼻,蔑视 | |
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n.气味,香味,香水,线索,嗅觉;v.嗅,发觉 | |
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v.(指颜色、水气等)弥漫于,布满( suffuse的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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displeased
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a.不快的 | |
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confide
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v.向某人吐露秘密 | |
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choirs
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n.教堂的唱诗班( choir的名词复数 );唱诗队;公开表演的合唱团;(教堂)唱经楼 | |
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celestial
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adj.天体的;天上的 | |
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harps
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impulsive
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elastic
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velvet
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exquisitely
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noted
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adj.有鉴赏力的,有眼力的;感激的 | |
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色彩( hue的名词复数 ); 色调; 信仰; 观点 | |
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rosy
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droll
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caressingly
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爱抚地,亲切地 | |
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languishing
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lamely
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一瘸一拐地,不完全地 | |
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v.使再燃( rekindle的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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gambling
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dame
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perils
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极大危险( peril的名词复数 ); 危险的事(或环境) | |
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n.搅动;搅拌;鼓动,煽动 | |
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milky
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n.银行业,银行学,金融业 | |
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