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When I exchanged my maiden1 name for better or worse, and dearest Vavasour and I, at the conclusion of the speeches—I was married in a traveling-dress of Bluefern’s—descended the steps of mamma’s house in Ebury Street—the Belgravian, not the Pimlican end—and, amid a hurricane of farewells and a hailstorm of pink and yellow and white confetti, stepped into the brougham that was to convey us to a Waterloo Station, en route for Southampton—our honeymoon2 was to be spent in Guernsey—we were perfectly3 well satisfied with ourselves and each other. This state of mind is not uncommon4 at the outset of wedded5 life. You may have heard the horrid6 story of the newly-wedded cannibal chief, who remarked that he had never yet known a young bride to disagree with her husband in the early stages of the honeymoon. I believe if dearest Vavasour had seriously proposed to chop me into cotêlettes and eat me, with or without sauce, I should have taken it for granted that the powers that be had destined7 me to the high end of supplying one of the noblest of created beings with an entrée dish.
We were idiotically blissful for two or three days. It was flowery April, and Guernsey was looking her loveliest. No horrid hotel or boarding-house sheltered our lawful8 endearments9. Some old friends of papa’s had lent us an ancient mansion10 standing11 in a wild garden, now one pink riot of almond-blossom, screened behind lofty walls of
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fragrant
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sneer
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illiterate
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momentary
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refinement
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affinity
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wrath
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inebriate
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slumber
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misty
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thoroughly
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entanglement
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soothingly
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entity
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soothe
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v.安慰;使平静;使减轻;缓和;奉承 | |
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pervades
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desultory
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bolster
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connubial
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banish
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persistently
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hatred
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brutality
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contraction
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eyelid
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seclusion
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grove
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