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CHAPTER 21
If love were all!
din
(noise)
dusk
(sunset)
pallet
(sraw
filled mattress)
afloat
(floating)
wont
(habitual)
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clung (hung
on)
narrowest (slightest)
listlessly
(without
interest or spirit)
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discerned
(distinguished)
presumption
(assumption)
counterfeited
the lover (made a deception of
loving her)
wrung
(tormented)
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chant
(sing)
requiem (a set of
prayers, act to solemn music; for the soul of one who has died)
unmanned
(having no
personality)
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burden
(repeated
avoid doing)
heed
(pay
attention to)
discern
(determine)
stay
(stop)
wrung
(pressed)
a cadet (younger
son and consequently not the direct heir to any estate or title of the family)
CHAPTER 22
Present, Past—and Future?
prospective
(forthcoming)
whereabouts
(location)
vexing
(troublesome
to)
rallied
(teased)
seclusion
(privacy)
flippantly
(jokily)
sly
(cunning)
sententiously
(intending to
impress people with your opinions)
wrung
out of me (discovered
by means of persistent and ingenious questions)
ingenuity
(cleverness)
regaled
(entertained)
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ado
(excitement)
delusions
(fantasy)
fauna,
flora (animals,
plants)
frivolous
(playfullness)
verdict
(judgment)
sheepish
(ashamed)
prophesied
(predicted)
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resolve
(determination)
triumphing
(conquering)
reproaches
(criticism)
whereabouts
(location)
exasperating (making
angry)
horrid (nasty)
ascended (rise)
engraving
(printing)
pettishly (irritably)
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retorted (responded
sharply)
scarcely (hardly)
dazzle (appealing
to)
in
dudgeon (in a
state of great annoyance)
glimmer (dim
glow, hint)
fancy (fondness)
whirl (spinning
movement)
jostle (push)
indolent (lazy)
presentiment (awareness
of some event)
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broodings (seeming
to contain some silent threat or danger)
array
(succession)
revel (enjoyment)
amidst (among,
amid)
nigh (near)
presentiment (awareness
of some event)
insistently (persistently)
crowing (loudly
crying)
