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W wersji do nauki angielskiego dotychczas ukazały się:

A Christmas Carol

Opowieść wigilijna

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Alicja w Krainie Czarów

Anne of Green Gables

Ania z Zielonego Wzgórza

Christmas Stories

Opowiadania świąteczne

Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

Baśnie Hansa Christiana Andersena

Fanny Hill. Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Wspomnienia kurtyzany

Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Peter and Wendy

Piotruś Pan

Pride and Prejudice

Duma i uprzedzenie

Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

Opowiadania Allana Edgara Poe

Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Collection

Opowiadania autora Wielkiego Gatsby’ego

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Part 1

Przygody Sherlocka Holmesa

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Part 2

Przygody Sherlocka Holmesa. Ciąg dalszy

The Blue Castle

Błękitny Zamek

The Great Gatsby

Wielki Gatsby

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Pies Baskerville’ów

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Portret Doriana Graya

The Secret Garden

Tajemniczy ogród

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Doktor Jekyll i pan Hyde

The Time Machine

Wehikuł czasu

The War of the Worlds

Wojna światów

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Czarnoksiężnik z Krainy Oz

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

Trzech panów w łódce (nie licząc psa)

Wstęp

Fanny Hill, or: the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure to książka Johna Clelanda przeznaczona wyłącznie dla dorosłych czytelników i czytelniczek, choć ukazała się bardzo dawno temu, bo w 1748 roku. Powszechnie uchodzi bowiem za prekursora powieści erotycznej. Dzierży również tytuł jednej z najczęściej zakazywanych i cenzurowanych powieści na świecie. Zaraz po publikacji w USA (1963), kraju obecnie będącym ostoją wolności słowa, wydawcę skazano za publikację „lubieżnej i obscenicznej” powieści. Mimo apelacji sąd pozostał niewzruszony – w wyroku wydawcę określono jako „skandalizującą i złą osobę”, mającą na celu „doprowadzenie do zepsucia” obywateli stanu Massachusetts.

Gdyby książka ukazała się współcześnie, wobec powszechnego uprzedmiotowienia ciała i erotyzacji kultury oraz masowego dostępu do twardej pornografii, oczywiście nie wzbudziłaby takiego zainteresowania, przynajmniej w swojej oryginalnej funkcji. Choćby organy płciowe często są określane w niej metaforycznie i niedosłownie, a zachowania nieakceptowane wówczas społecznie, jak np. związki jednopłciowe, opisywane są z moralizatorskim komentarzem. Tym ciekawsza jest jednak „Fanny Hill” w innej roli: zwierciadła erotycznego imaginarium społeczeństwa sprzed ponad ćwierć millenium.

Myliłby się jednak ten, kto w „Fanny Hill” spodziewałby się jedynie zawoalowanych aluzji i podtekstów. Przeciwnie, treści erotyczne są w niej przedstawione dosyć detalicznie, a biorąc pod uwagę różnicę czasów, z pewnością znacznie bardziej odważnie i przełomowo niż w bestsellerowych „50 twarzach Greya”. Nie bez znaczenia były tu ilustracje zawarte w powieści, które przedstawiały całą gamę zachowań seksualnych. We wczesnych wydaniach powieści był opisany także stosunek płciowy między dwoma nieletnimi chłopcami, co w ówczesnych czasach budziło znaczne zbulwersowanie. Orgie sado-masochistyczne, erotyczne chłosty, nimfomanki, gwałty, wykorzystanie osób z niepełnosprawnością umysłową czy handlarze dziewictwem gęsto pojawiają się na kartach powieści, pełnej również opisów bardziej typowych stosunków seksualnych.

Sama powieść ma formę dwóch pierwszoosobowych listów, napisanych przez Frances Hill, zwaną „Fanny”. Choć w momencie ich pisania jest stateczną mieszczanką, opisuje swoje liczne doświadczenia erotyczne, które zaczęły się wraz z jej przeprowadzką do Londynu po śmierci rodziców, gdy miała 14 lat i utraciła dziewictwo, a kończą pięć lat później, gdy wstępuje w stały związek. Pomiędzy momentem wkroczenia w wymuszoną dorosłość a zaślubinami Fanny zbiera bogaty wachlarz doświadczeń. Pracuje jako prostytutka, niestroniąca od niekonwencjonalnych usług i jest mistrzynią w swoim fachu.

Fanny Hill to zangielszczony termin mons Veneris, oznaczający po łacinie wzgórek łonowy. Warto zauważyć, że do dnia dzisiejszego w potocznym brytyjskim angielskim słowo „fanny” nadal oznacza żeńskie organy płciowe, choć już w amerykańskiej angielszczyźnie, nie wiedzieć czemu, pupę.

Ciekawostką może być to, że John Cleland napisał „Fanny Hill”, odsiadując wyrok. Po przepracowaniu wielu lat jako żołnierz i urzędnik Brytyjskiej Kompanii Wschodnioindyjskiej, nieprzezornie zainwestował w jej portugalski odpowiednik. Za długi w wysokości odpowiadającej współczesnej wartości ponad pół miliona złotych trafił do ciężkiego londyńskiego więzienia i spędził w nim ponad rok. Jest całkiem prawdopodobne, że to dzieło literackie bez owego wyroku by nie powstało. Książka nie przysłużyła się jednak autorowi – rychło po publikacji ponownie trafił za kraty, tym razem z uwagi na jej treść.

Musiał się wyrzec swojego dzieła i zadeklarować, że życzyłby sobie, aby zostało pogrzebane i zapomniane. Oryginalna wersja powieści nie ukazała się legalnie przez ponad kolejne sto lat! Krążyła jednak w niezliczonych pirackich kopiach, a sam autor mógł w końcu także wydać znacznie uładzoną i ugrzecznioną jej wersję.

Opracowany przez nas podręcznik oparty na oryginalnym tekście powieści został skonstruowany według przejrzystego schematu.

Na marginesach tekstu podano objaśnienia trudniejszych wyrazów. Uwaga! Niektóre objaśniane słowa są już archaiczne; inne zmieniły znaczenie, jeszcze inne - pisownię.

Każdy rozdział jest zakończony krótkim testem sprawdzającym stopień rozumienia tekstu.

Zawarty po każdym rozdziale dział O słowach jest poświęcony poszerzeniu słownictwa z danej dziedziny, synonimom, wyrazom kłopotliwym, phrasal verbs oraz wyrażeniom idiomatycznym.

W dziale poświęconym gramatyce omówiono wybrane zagadnienia gramatyczne, ilustrowane fragmentami poszczególnych części powieści.

Dla dociekliwych został również opracowany komentarz do wybranych tematów związanych z kulturą i historią.

Różnorodne ćwiczenia pozwolą Czytelnikowi powtórzyć i sprawdzić omówione w podręczniku zagadnienia leksykalne i gramatyczne. Ćwiczenia słownikowe obejmują oczywiście tylko te wyrazy, których używa się do dzisiaj.

Alfabetyczny wykaz wyrazów objaśnianych na marginesie tekstu znajduje się w słowniczku. Odpowiedzi do wszystkich zadań zamkniętych są podane w kluczu na końcu książki.

Part 1

Słownictwo

LETTER THE FIRST

I sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my considering your desires as indispensable orders. Ungracious then as the task may be, I shall recall to view those scandalous stages of my life, out of which I emerged, at length, to the enjoyment of every blessing in the power of love, health and fortune to bestow; whilst yet in the flower of youth, and not too late to employ the leisure afforded me by great ease and affluence, to cultivate an understanding, naturally not a despicable one, and which had, even amidst the whirl of loose pleasures I had been tossed in, exerted more observation on the characters and manners of the world than what is common to those of my unhappy profession, who, looking on all though or reflection as their capital enemy, keep it at as great a distance as they can, or destroy it without mercy.

Hating, as I mortally do, all long unnecessary prefaces, I shall give you good quarter in this, and use no farther apology, than to prepare you for seeing the loose part of my life, written with the same liberty that I led it.

Truth! stark, naked truth, is the word; and I will not so much as take the pains to bestow the strip of a gauze wrapper on it, but paint situations such as they actually rose to me in nature, careless of violating those laws of decency that were never made for such unreserved intimacies as ours; and you have too much sense, too much knowledge of the originals, to sniff prudishly and out of character at the pictures of them. The greatest men, those of the first and most leading taste, will not scruple adorning their private closets with nudities, though, in compliance with vulgar prejudices, they may not think them decent decorations of the staircase, or salon.

This, and enough, premised, I go souse into my personal history. My maiden name was Frances Hill. I was born at a small village near Liverpool, in Lancashire, of parents extremely poor, and, I piously believe, extremely honest.

My father, who had received a maim on his limbs, that disabled him from following the more laborious branches of country drudgery, got, by making nets, a scanty subsistence, which was not much enlarged by my mother’s keeping a little day-school for the girls in her neighborhood. They had had several children; but none lived to any age except myself, who had received from nature a constitution perfectly healthy.

My education, till past fourteen, was no better than very vulgar: reading, or rather spelling, an illegible scrawl, and a little ordinary plain work, composed the whole system of it; and then all my foundation in virtue was no other than a total ignorance of vice, and the shy timidity general to our sex, in the tender age of life, when objects alarm or frighten more by their novelty than anything else. But then, this is a fear too often cured at the expense of innocence, when Miss, by degrees, begins no longer to look on a man as a creature of prey that will eat her.

My poor mother had divided her time so entirely between her scholars and her little domestic cares, that she had spared very little to my instruction, having, from her own innocence from all ill, no hint or thought of guarding me against any.

I was now entering on my fifteenth year, when the worst of ills befell me in the loss of my fond, tender parents, who were both carried off by the small-pox, within a few days of each other; my father dying first, and thereby by hastening the death of my mother: so that I was now left an unhappy friendless orphan (for my father’s coming to settle there, was accidental, he being originally a Kentisrman). That cruel distemper which had proved so fatal to them, had indeed seized me, but with such mild and favourable symptoms, that I was presently out of danger, and what then I did not know the value of, was entirely unmarked I skip over here an account of the natural grief and affliction which I felt on this melancholy occasion. A little time, and the giddiness of that age, dissipated too soon my reflections on that irreparable loss; but nothing contributed more to reconcile me to it, than the notions that were immediately put into my head, of going to London, and looking out for a service, in which I was promised all assistance and advice from one Esther Davis, a young woman that had beer down to see her friends, and who, after the stay of a few days, was returned to her place.

As I had now nobody left alive in the village, who had concerned enough about what should become of me, to start any objections to this scheme, and the woman who took care of me after my parents’ death, rather encouraged me to pursue it, I soon came to a resolution of making this launch into the wide world, by repairing to London, in order to seek my fortune, a phrase which, by the bye, has ruined more adventurers of both sexes, from the country, than ever it made or advanced.

Nor did Esther Davis a little comfort and inspirit me to venture with her, by piquing my childish curiosity with the fine sights that were to be seen in London: the Tombs, the Lions, the King, the Royal Family, the fine Plays and Operas, and, in short, all the diversions which fell within her sphere of life to come at; the detail of all which perfectly turned the little head of me.

Nor can I remember, without laughing, the innocent admiration, not without a spice of envy, with which we poor girls, whose church-going clothes did not rise above dowlas shifts and stuff gowns, beplaced with silver: all which we imagined grew in London, and entered for a great deal into my determination of trying to come in for my share of them.

The idea however of having the company of a towns-woman with her, was the trivial, and all the motives that engaged Esther to take charge of me during my journey to town, where she told me, after the manner and style, “as how several maids out of the country had made themselves and all their kind for ever: that by preserving their virtue, some had taken so with their masters, that they had married them, and kept them coaches, and lived vastly grand and happy; and some, may-hap, came to be Duchesses; luck was all, and why not I, as well as another?”; with other almanacs to this purpose, which set me a tip-toe to begin this promising journey, and to leave a place which, though my native one, contained no relations that I had reason to regret, and was grown insupportable to me, from the change of the tenderest usage into a cold air of charity, with which I was entertained, even at the only friend’s house that I had the least expectation of care and protection from. She was, however, so just to me, as to manage the turning into money the little matters that remained to me after the debts and burial charges were allowed for, and, at my departure, put my whole fortune into my hands; which consisted of a very slender wardrobe, packed up in a very portable box, and eight guineas, with seventeen shillings in silver, stowed in a spring-
-pouch, which was a greater treasure than I ever had seen together, and which I could not conceive there was a possibility of running out; and indeed, I was so entirely taken up with the joy of seeing myself mistress of such an immence sum, that I gave very little attention to a world of good advice which was given me with it.

Places, then, being taken for Esther and me in the Chester waggon, I pass over a very immaterial scene of leave-taking, at which I dropped a few tears betwixt grief and joy; and, for the same reasons of insignificance, skip over all that happened to me on the road, such as the waggoner’s looking liquorish on me, the schemes laid for me by some of the passengers, which were defeated by the valiance of my guardian Esther; who, to do her justice, took a motherly care of me, at the same time that she taxed me for the protection by making me bear all travelling charges, which I defrayed with the upmost cheerfulness, and thought myself much obliged to her into the bargain.

She took indeed great care that we were not overrated, or imposed on, as well as of managing as frugally as possible; expensiveness was not her vice.

It was pretty late in a summer evening when we reached the town, in our slow conveyance, though drawn by six at length. As we passed through the greatest streets that led to our inn, the noise, of the coaches, the hurry, the crowds of foot passengers, in short, the new scenery of the shops and houses, at once pleased and amazed me.

But guess at my mortification and surprise when we came to the inn, and our things were landed and delivered to us, when my fellow traveller and protectress, Esther Davis, who had used me with the utmost tenderness during the journey, and prepared me by no preceeding signs for the stunning blow I was to receive, when I say, my only dependence and friend, in this strange place, all of a sudden assumed a strange and cool air towards me, as if she dreaded my becoming a burden to her.

Instead, then, of proffering me the continuance of her assistance and good offices, which I relied upon, and never more wanted, she thought herself, it seems, abundantly acquitted of her engagements to me, by having brought me safe to my journey’s end, and seeing nothing in her procedure towards me but what natural and in order, began to embrace me by the way of taking leave, whilst I was so confounded, so struck, that I had not spirit or sense enough so much as to mention my hopes or expectations from her experience, and knowledge of the place she had brought me to.

Whilst I stood thus stupid and mute, which she doubtless attributed to nothing more than a concern at parting, this idea procured me perhaps a slight alleviation of it, in the following harangue: “That now we were got safe to London, and that she was obliged to go to her place, she advised me by all means to get into one as soon as possible; that I need not fear getting one; there were more places than parish-
-churches; that she advised me to go to an intelligence office; that if she heard of any thing stirring, she would find me out and let me know; that in the meantime, I should take a private lodging, and acquaint her where to send to me; that she wished me good luck, and hoped I should always have the grace to keep myself honest, and not bringing a disgrace on my parentage.” With this; she took her leave of me, and left me, as it were, on my own hands, full as lightly as I had been put into hers.

Left thus alone, absolutely destitute and friendless I began then to feel most bitterly the severity of this separation, the scene of which had passed in a little room in the inn; and no sooner was her back turned, but the affliction I felt at my helpless strange circumstances, burst out into a flood of tears, which infinitely relieved the oppression of my heart; though I still remained stupified, and most perfectly perplexed how to dispose of myself.

One of the waiters coming in, added yet more to my uncertainty, by asking me, in a short way, if I called for anything? to which I replied innocently: “No.” But I wished him to tell me where I might get a lodging for that night. He said he would go and speak to his mistress, who accordingly came, and told me drily, without entering in the least into the distress she saw me in, that I might have a bed for a shilling, and that, as she supposed I had some friends in town (there I fetched a deep sigh in vain!), I might provide for myself in the morning.

It is incredible what trifling consolations the human mind will seize in its greatest afflictions. The assurance of nothing more than a bed to lie on that night, calmed my agonies; and being ashamed to acquaint the mistress of the inn that I had no friends to apply to in town, I proposed to myself to proceed, the very next morning, to an intelligence office, to which I was furnished with written directions on the back of a ballad, Esther had given me. There I counted on getting information of any place that such a country girl as I might be fit for, and where I could get into any sort of being, before my little stock should be consumed; and as to a character, Esther had often repeated to me, that I might depend on her managing me one; nor, however affected I was at her leaving me thus, did I entirely cease to rely on her, as I began to think, good-naturedly, that her procedure was all in course, and that is was only my ignorance of life that had made me take it in the light I at first did.

Accordingly, the next morning I dressed myself as clean and as neat as my rustic wardrobe would permit me; and having left my box, with special recommendation, with the landlady, I ventured out by myself, and without any more difficulty than can be supposed of a young country girl, barely fifteen, and to whom every sign or shop was a gazing trap, I got to the wished for intelligence office.

It was kept by an elderly woman, who sat at the receipt of custom, with a book before her in great form and order, and several scrolls made out, of directions for places.

I made up then to this important personage, without lifting up my eyes or observing any of the people round me, who were attending there on the same errand as myself, and dropping her curtsies nine deep, just made a shift to stammer out my business to her.

Madam heard me out, with all the gravity and brow of a petty minister of State, and seeing at one glance over my figure what I was, made me no answer, but to ask me the preliminary shilling, on receipt of which she told me places for women too slight built for hard work: but that she would look over her book, and see what was to be done for me, desiring me to stay a little, till she had dispatched some other customers.

On this I drew back a little, most heartily mortified at a declaration which carried with it a killing uncertainly, that my circumstances could not well endure.

Presently, assuming more courage, and seeking some diversion from my uneasy thoughts, I ventured to lift up my head a little, and sent my eyes on a course round the room, where they met full tilt with those of a lady (for such my extreme innocence pronounced her) sitting in a corner of the room, dressed in a velvet mantle (in the midst of summer), with her bonnet off; squat, fat, red-faced, and at least fifty.

She looked as if she would devour me with her eyes, staring at me from head to foot, without the least regard to the confusion and blushes her eyeing me so fixedly put me to, and which were to her, no doubt, the strongest recommendation and marks of my being fit for her purpose. After a little time, in which my air, person and whole figure had undergone a strict examination, which I had, on my part, tried to render favourable to me, by primming, drawing up my neck, and setting my best looks, she advanced and spoke to me with the greatest demureness:

“Sweet-heart, do you want a place?

“Yes, and please you,” (with a curtsey down to the ground).

Upon this she acquainted me she was actually come to the office herself, to look out for a servant; that she believed I might do, with a little of her instruction; that she could take my very looks for a sufficient character; that London was a very wicked, vile, place; that she hoped I would be tractable, and keep out of bad company; in short, she said all to me that an old experienced practitioner in town could think of, and which was much more than was necessary to take in an artless inexperienced country maid, who was even afraid of becoming a wanderer about the streets, and therefore gladly jumped at the first offer of a shelter, especially from so grave and matron-like a lady, for such my flattering fancy assured me this new mistress of mine was, I being actually hired under the nose of the good woman that kept the office, whose shrewed smiles and shrugs I could not help observing, and innocently interpreted them as marks of being pleased at my getting into place so soon: but, as I afterwards came to know, these Beldams understood one another very well, and this was a market where Mrs. Brown, my mistress, frequently attended, on the watch for any fresh goods that might offer there, for the use of her customers, and her own profit.

Madam was, however, so well pleased with her bargain that fearing I presume, lest better advice or some accident might occasion my slipping through her fingers, she would officiously take me in a coach to my inn, where, calling herself for my box, it was, I being present, delivered without the least scruple or explanation as to where I was going.

This being over, she bid the coachman drive to a shop in St. Paul’s Churchyard, where she bought a pair of gloves, which she gave me, and thence renewed her directions to the coachman to drive to her house in ------ street, who accordingly landed us at the door, after I had been cheered up and entertained by the way with the most plausible flams, without one syllable from which I could conclude anything but that I was, by the greatest luck, fallen into the hands of kindest mistress, not to say friend, that the vast world could afford; and accordingly I entered her doors with most complete confidence and exultation, promising, myself that, as soon as I could be a little settled, I would acquaint Esther Davis with my rare good fortune.

You may be sure the good opinion of my place was not lessened by the appearance of a very handsome back parlor, into which I was led and which seemed to me magnificently furnished, who had never seen better rooms than the ordinary ones in inns upon the road. There were two gilt pier-glasses, and a buffet, on which a few pieces of plate, set out to the most shew, dazzled, and altogether persuaded me that I must be got into a very reputable family.

Here my mistress first began her part, with telling me that I must have good spirits, and learn to be free with her; that she had not taken me to be a common servant, to do domestic drudgery, but to be a kind of companion to her; and that if I would be a good girl, she would do more than twenty mothers for me; to all which I answered only by the profoundest and the awkwardest curtsies, and a few monosyllables, such as “’yes! no! to be sure!”

Presently my mistress touched the bell, and in came a strapping maid-servant, who had let us in. “Here, Martha,” said Mrs. Brown, “I have just hired this young woman to look after my linen; so step up and show her her chamber; and I charge you to use her with as much respect as you would myself, for I have taken a prodigious liking to her, and I do not know what I shall do for her.”

Martha, who was an arch-jade, and, being used to this decoy, had her cue perfect, made me a kind of half curtsy, and asked me to walk up with her; and accordingly showed me a neat room, two pair of stairs backwards, in which there was a handsome bed, where Martha told me I was to lie with a young gentlewoman, a cousin of my mistress, who she was sure would be vastly good to me. Then she ran out into such affected encomiums on her good mistress! her sweet mistress! and how happy I was to light upon her! and that I could not have bespoke a better; with other the like gross stuff, such as would itself have started suspicions in any but such an unpractised simpleton, who was perfectly new to life, and who took every word she said in the very sense she laid out for me to take it; but she readily saw what a penetration she had to deal with, and measured me very rightly in her manner of whistling to me, so as to make me pleased with my cage, and blind to the wires.

In the midst of these false explanations of the nature of my future service, we were rung for down again, and I was reintroduced into the same parlour, where there was a table laid with three covers; and my mistress had now got with her one of her favourite girls, a notable manager of her house, and whose business it was to prepare and break such young fillies as I was to the mounting block; and she was accordingly, in that view, alloted me for a bed-fellow, and, to give her the more authority, she had the title of cousin conferred on her by the venerable president of this college.

Here I underwent a second survey, which ended in the full approbation of Mrs. Phoebe Ayres, the name of my tutoress elect, to whose care and instruction I was affectionately recommended.

Dinner was now set on table, and in pursuance of treating me as a companion, Mrs. Brown, with a tone to cut off all dispute, soon over-ruled my most humble and most confused protestations against sitting down with her Ladyship, which my very short breeding just suggested to me could not be right, or in the order of things.

At table, the conversation was chiefly kept up by the two madams and carried on in double meaning expressions, interrupted every now and then by kind assurances to me, all tending to confirm and fix my satisfaction with my present condition: augment it they could not, so very a novice was I then.

It was here agreed that I should keep myself up and out of sight for a few days, till such clothes could be procured for me as were fit for the character I was to appear in, of my mistress’s companion, observing withal, that on the first impressions of my figure much might depend; and, as they rightly judged, the prospect of exchanging my country clothes for London finery, made the clause of confinement digest perfectly well with me. But the truth was, Mrs. Brown did not care that I should be seen or talked to by any, either of her customers, or her Does (as they called the girls provided for them), till she secured a good market for my maidenhead, which I had at least all the appearances of having brought into her Ladyship’s service.

To slip over minutes of no importance to the main of my story, I pass the interval to bed time, in which I was more and more pleased with the views that opened to me, of an easy service under these good people; and after supper being shewed up to bed, Miss Phoebe, who observed a kind of reluctance in me to strip and go to bed, in my shift, before her, now the maid was withdrawn, came up to me, and beginning with unpinning my handkerchief and gown, soon encouraged me to go on with undressing myself; and, blushing at now seeing myself naked to my shift, I hurried to get under the bed-clothes out of sight.

Phoebe laughed and was not long before she placed herself by my side. She was about five and twenty, by her most suspicious account, in which, according to all appearances, she must have sunk at least ten good years; allowance, too, being made for the havoc which a long course of hackneyship and hot waters must have made of her constitution, and which had already brought on, upon the spur, that stale stage in which those of her profession are reduced to think of showing company, instead of seeing it.

No sooner then was this precious substitute of my mistress laid down, but she, who was never out of her way when any occasion of lewdness presented itself, turned to me, embraced and kissed me with great eagerness. This was new, this was odd; but imputing it to nothing but pure kindness, which, for ought I knew, it might be the London way to express in that manner, I was determined not to be behind-hand with her, and returned her the kiss and embrace, with all the fervour that perfect innocence knew.

Encouraged by this, her hands became extremely free, and wandered over my whole body, with touches, squeezes, pressures, that rather warmed and surprised me with their novelty, than they either shocked or alarmed me.

The flattering praises she intermingled with these invasions, contributed also not a little to bribe my passiveness; and, knowing no ill, I feared none, especially from one who had prevented all doubts of her womanhood, by conducting my hands to a pair of breasts that hung loosely down, in a size and volume that full sufficiently distinguished her sex, to me at least, who had never made any other comparison.

I lay then all tame and passive as she could wish, whilst her freedom raised no other emotion but those of a strange, and, till then, unfelt pleasure. Every part of me was open and exposed to the licentious courses of her hands, which, like a lambent fire, ran over my whole body, and thawed all coldness as they went.

My breasts, if it is not too bold a figure to call so two hard, firm, rising hillocks, that just began to shew themselves, or signify anything to the touch, employed and amused her hands awhile, till, slipping down lower, over a smooth track, she could just feel the soft silky down that had but a few months before put forth and garnished the mount-pleasant of those parts, and promised to spread a grateful shelter over the sweet seat of the most exquisite sensation, and which had been, till that instant, the seat of the most insensible innocence. Her fingers played and strove to twine in the young tendrils of that moss, which nature has contrived at once for use and ornament.

But, not contented with these outer posts, she now attempts the main spot, and began to twitch, to insinuate, and at length to force an introduction of a finger into the quick itself, in such a manner, that had she not proceeded by insensible gradations that inflamed me beyond the power of modesty to oppose its resistance to their progress, I should have jumped out of bed and cried for help against such strange assaults.

Instead of which, her lascivious touches had lighted up a new fire that wantoned through all my veins, but fixed with violence in that center appointed them by nature, where the first strange hands were now busied in feeling, squeezing, compressing the lips, then opening them again, with a finger between, till an “Oh!” expressed her hurting me, where the narrowness of the unbroken passage refused it entrance to any depth.

In the meantime, the extension of my limbs, languid stretching, sighs, short heavings, all conspired to as-ure that experienced wanton that I was more pleased than offended at her proceedings, which she seasoned with repeated kisses and exclamations, such as “Oh! what a charming creature thou art! What a happy man will he be that first makes a woman of you! Oh! that I were a man for your sake!” with the like broken expressions, interrupted by kisses as fierce and salacious as ever I received from the other sex.

For my part, I was transported, confused, and out of myself; feelings so new were too much for me. My heated and alarmed senses were in a tumult that robbed me of all liberty of thought; tears of pleasure gushed from my eyes, and somewhat assuaged the fire that raged all over me.

Phoebe, herself, the hackneyed, thorough-bred Phoebe, to whom all modes and devices of pleasure were known and familiar, found, it seems, in this exercise her those arbitrary tastes, for which there is no accounting. Not that she hated men, or did not even prefer them to her own sex; but when she met with such occasions as this was, a satiety of enjoyments in the common road, perhaps, too a great secret bias, inclined her to make the most of pleasure, wherever she could find it, without distinction of sexes. In this view, now well assured that she had, by her touches, sufficiently inflamed me for her purpose, she rolled down the bed clothes gently, and I saw myself stretched naked, my shift being turned up to my neck, whilst I had no power or sense to oppose it. Even my growing blushes expressed more desire than modesty, whilst the candle, left (to be sure not undesignedly) burning, threw a full light on my whole body.

“No!” says Phoebe, “you must not, my sweet girl, think to hide all these treasures from me. My sight must be feasted as my touch. I must devour with my eyes this springing bosom. Suffer me to kiss it. I have not seen it enough. Let me kiss it once more. What firm, smooth, white flesh is here! How delicately shaped! Then this delicious down! Oh! let me view the small, dear, tender cleft! This is too much, I cannot bear it! I must! I must!” Here she took my hand, and in a transport carried it where you will easily guess. But what a difference in the state of the same thing! A spreading thicket of bushy curls marked the full grown, complete woman. Then the cavity to which she guided my hand easily received it; and as soon as she felt it within her, she moved herself to and fro, with so rapid a friction, that I presently withdrew it, wet and clammy, when instantly Phoebe grew more composed, after two or three sighs, and heart-fetched Oh’s! and giving me a kiss that seemed to exhale her soul through her lips, she replaced the bed-clothes over us. What pleasure she had found I will not say; but this I know, that the first sparks of kindling nature, the first ideas of pollution, were caught by me that night; and that the acquaintance and communication with the bad of our sex, is often as fatal to innocence as all the seductions of the other. But to go on. When Phoebe was restored to that calm, which I was far from the enjoyment of myself, she artfully sounded me on all the points necessary to govern the designs of my virtuous mistress on me, and by my answers, drawn from pure undissembled nature, she had no reason but to promise herself all imaginable success, so far as it depended on my ignorance, easiness and warmth of constitution.

After a sufficient length of dialogue, my bedfellow left me to my rest, and I fell asleep, through pure weariness, from the violent emotions I had been led into, when nature which had been too warmly stirred and fermented to subside without allaying by some means or other relieved me by one of those luscious dreams, the transports of which are scarce inferior to those of waking real action.

In the morning I awoke about ten, perfectly gay and refreshed. Phoebe was up before me, and asked me in the kindest manner how I did, how I had rested, and if I was ready for breakfast? carefully, at the same time, avoiding to increase the confusion she saw I was in, at looking her in the face, by any hint of the night’s bed scene. I told her if she pleased I would get up, and begin any work she would be pleased to set me about. She smiled; presently the maid brought in the tea equipage, and I just huddled my clothes on, when in waddled my mistress. I expected no less than to be told of, if not chid for, my late rising, when I was most agreeably disappointed by her compliments on my pure and fresh looks. I was “a bud of beauty” (this was her style), “and how vastly all the fine men would admire me!” to all which my answers did not, I can assure you, wrong my breeding; they were as simple and silly as they could wish, and, no doubt, flattered them infinitely more than had they proved me enlightened by education and a knowledge of the world.

We breakfasted, and the tea things were scarce removed, when in were brought two bundles of linen and wearing apparel: in short, all the necessaries for rigging me out, as they termed it, completely.

Imagine to yourself, Madam, how my little coquet heart fluttered with joy at the sight of a white lutestring, flowered with silver, scoured indeed, but passed on me for spick and span new, a Brussels lace cap, braited shoes, and the rest in proportion, all second-hand finery, and procured instantly for the occasion, by the diligence and industry of the good Mrs. Brown, who had already a chapman for me in the house, before whom my charms were to pass in review; for he had not only, in course, insisted on a previous sight of the premises, but also on immediate surrendering to him, in case of his agreeing for me; concluding very wisely, that such a place as I was in, was of the hottest to trust the keeping of such a perishable commodity in, as a maidenhead.

The care of dressing and tricking me out for the market, was then left to Phoebe, who acquitted herself, if not well, at least perfectly to the satisfaction of everything but my impatience of seeing myself dressed. When it was over, and I viewed myself in the glass, I was no doubt, too natural, too artless, to hide my childish joy at the change: a change, in the real truth, for much the worse, since I must have much better become the neat easy simplicity of my rustic dress than the awkward, untoward, tawdry finery that I could not conceal my strangeness to.

Phoebe’s compliments, however, in which her own share in dressing me was not forgot, did not a little confirm me in the first notions I had ever entertained concerning my person; which, be it said without vanity, was then tolerable to justify a taste for me, and of which it may not be out of place here to sketch you an unflattered picture.

I was tall, yet not too tall for my age, which, as I before remarked, was barely turned of fifteen; my shape perfectly straight, thin waisted, and light and free without owing anything to stays; my hair was a glossy auburn, and as soft as silk, flowing down my neck in natural curls, and did not a little to set off the whiteness of a smooth skin; my face was rather too ruddy, though its features were delicate, and the shape was a roundish oval, except where a pit on my chin had far from a disagreeable effect; my eyes were as black as can be imagined, and rather languishing than sparkling, except on certain occasions, when I have been told they struck fire fast enough; my teeth, which I ever carefully preserved, were small, even and white; my bosom was finely raised, and one might then discern rather the promise than the actual growth of the round, firm breast, that in a little time made that promise good. In short, all the points of beauty that are most universally in request, I had, or at least my vanity forbid me to appeal from the decision of our sovereign judges the men, who all, that I ever knew at last, gave it thus highly in my favour; and I met with, even in my own sex, some that were above denying me that justice, whilst others praised me yet more unsuspectedly, by endeavouring to detract from me, in points of person and figure that I obviously excelled in. This is, I own, too strong of self praise; but I should be ungrateful to nature, and to a form to which I owe such singular blessings of pleasure and fortune, were I to suppress, through an affectation of modesty, the mention of such valuable gifts.

Well then, dressed I was, and little did it then enter into my head that all this gay attire was no more than decking the victim out for sacrifice, whilst I innocently attributed all to mere friendship and kindness in the sweet good Mrs. Brown; who, I was forgetting to mention, had, under pretence of keeping my money safe, got from me, without the least hesitation, the driblet (so I now call it) which remained to me after the expenses of my journey.

After some little time most agreebly spent before the glass, in scarce self-admiration, since my new dress had by much the greatest share in it, I was sent for down to the parlour, where the old lady saluted me, and wished me joy of my new clothes, which she was not ashamed to say, fitted me as if I had worn nothing but the finest all my life-time; but what was it she could not see me silly enough to swallow? At the same time, she presented me to another cousin of her own creation, an elderly gentleman, who got up, at my entry into the room, and on my dropping a curtsy to him, saluted me, and seemed a little affronted that I had only presented my cheek to him: a mistake, which, if one, he immediately corrected, by gluing his lips to mine, with an ardour which his figure had not at all disposed me to thank him for: his figure, I say, than which nothing could be more shocking or detestable: for ugly and disagreeable were terms too gentle to convey a just idea of it.

Imagine to yourself, a man rather past threescore, short and ill-made, with a yellow cadaverous hue, great goggle eyes, that stared as if he was strangled; an out-mouth from two more properly tusks than teeth, livid lips, and breath like a Jake’s: then he had a peculiar ghastliness in his grin, that made him perfectly frightful, if not dangerous to women with child; yet, made as he was thus in mock of man, he was so blind to his own staring deformities, as to think himself born to please, and that no woman could see him with impunity: in consequence of which idea, he had lavished great sums on such wretches as could gain upon themselves to pretend love to his person, whilst to those who had not art or patience to dissemble the horror it inspired, he behaved even brutally. Impotence, more than necessity, made him seek in variety, the provocative that was wanting to raise him to the pitch of enjoyment, which he too often saw himself baulked of, by the failure of his powers: and this always threw him into a fit of rage, which he wreaked, as far as he durst, on the innocent objects of his fit of momentary desire.

This then was the master to which my conscientious benefactress, who had long been his purveyor in this way, had doomed me, and sent for me down purposely for his examination. Accordingly she made me stand up before him, turned me round, unpinned my handkerchief, remarked to him the rise and fall, the turn and whiteness of a bosom just beginning to fill; then made me walk, and took even a handle from the rusticity of my charms: in short, she omitted no point of jockeyship; to which he only answered by gracious nods of approbation, whilst he looked goats and monkeys at me: for I sometimes stole a corner glance at him, and encountering his fiery, eager stare, looked another way from pure horror and affright, which he, characteristically, attributed to nothing more than maiden modesty, or at least the affectation of it.

However, I was soon dismissed, and reconducted to my room by Phoebe, who stuck close to me, not leaving me alone, and at leisure to make such reflections as might naturally rise to any one, not an idiot, on such a scene as I had just gone through; but to my shame be it confessed, that just was my invincible stupidity, or rather portentous innocence, that I did not yet open my eyes to Mrs. Brown’s designs, and saw nothing in this titular cousin of hers but a shockingly hideous person, which did not at all concern me, unless that my gratitude for my benefactress made me extend my respect to all her cousinhood.

Phoebe, however, began to sift the state and pulses of my heart toward this monster, asking me how I should approve of such a fine gentleman for a husband. (Fine gentleman, I suppose she called him, from his being daubed with lace.) I answered her very naturally, that I had no thoughts of a husband, but that if I was to choose one, it should be among my own degree, sure! so much had my aversion to that wretch’s hideous figure indisposed me to all “fine gentlemen,” and confounded my ideas, as if those of that rank had been necessarily cast in the same mould that he was. But Phoebe was not to be put off so, but went on with her endeavours to melt and soften me for the purposes of my reception into that hospitable house: and whilst she talked of the sex in general, she had no reason to despair of a compliance, which more than one reason showed her would be easily enough obtained of me; but then she had too much experience not to discover that my particular fixed aversion to that frightful cousin would be a block not so readily to be removed, as suited the consummation of their bargain, and sale of me.

Mother Brown had in the meantime agreed the terms with this loquorice old goat, which I afterwards understood were to be fifty guineas peremptory, for the liberty of attempting me, and a hundred more at the complete gratification of his desires, in the triumph over my virginity: and as for me, I was to be left entirely at the discretion of his liking and generosity. This unrighteous contract being thus settled, he was so eager to be put in possession, that he insisted on being introduced to drink tea with me that afternoon, when we were to be left alone; nor would he hearken to the procuress’s remonstrances, that I was not sufficiently prepared, and ripened for such an attack; that I was too green and untamed, having been scarce twenty-four hours in the house: it is the character of lust to be impatient, and his vanity arming him against any supposition of other than the common resistance of a maid on those occasions, made him reject all proposals of a delay, and my dreadful trial was thus fixed, unknown to me, for that very evening.

At dinner, Mrs. Brown and Phoebe did nothing but run riot in praise of this wonderful cousin, and how happy that woman would be that he would favour with his addresses; in short my two gossips exhausted all their rhetoric to persuade me to accept them: “that the gentleman was violently smitten with me at first sight; that he would make my fortune if I would be a good girl and not stand in my own light; that I should trust his honour; that I should be made for ever, and have a chariot to go abroad in,” with all such stuff as was fit to turn the head of such a silly ignorant girl as I then was: but luckily here my aversion had taken already such deep root in me, my heart was so strongly defended from him by my senses, that wanting the art to mask my sentiments, I gave them no hopes of their employer succeeding, at least very easily, with me. The glass too marched pretty quick, with a view, I suppose, to make a friend of the warmth of my constitution, in the minutes of the imminent attack.

Thus they kept me pretty long at table, and about six in the evening, after I had retired to my apartment, and the tea board was set, enters my venerable mistress, followed close by that satyr, who came in grinning in a way peculiar to him, and by his odious presence, confirmed me in all the sentiments of detestation which his first appearance had given birth to.

He sat down fronting me, and all tea time kept ogling me in a manner that gave me the utmost pain and confusion, all the mark of which he still explained to be my bashfulness, and not being used to see company.

Tea over, the commoding old lady pleady urgent business (which indeed was true) to go out, and earnestly desired me to entertain her cousin kindly till she came back, both for my own sake and her; and then, with a “Pray, sir, be very good, be very tender to the sweet child,” she went out of the room, leaving me staring, with my mouth open, and unprepared by the suddenness of her departure, to oppose it.

We were now alone; and on that idea a sudden fit of trembling seized me. I was so afraid, without a precise notion of why, and what I had to fear, that I sat on the settee, by the fire side, motionless and petrified, without life or spirit, not knowing how to look or how to stir.

But long I was not suffered to remain in this state of stupefaction: the monster squatted down by me on the settee, and without farther ceremony or preamble, flings his arms about my neck, and drawing me pretty forcibly towards him, obliged me to receive, in spite of my struggles to disengage from him, his pestilential kisses, which quite overcame me. Finding me then next to senseless, and unresisting, he tears off my neck handkerchief, and laid all open there, to his eyes and hands: still I endured all without flinching, till emboldened by my sufferance and silence, for I had not the power to speak or cry out, he attempted to lay me down on the settee, and I felt his hand on the lower part of my naked thighs, which were crossed, and which he endeavoured to unlock. Oh then! I was roused out of my passive endurance, and springing from him with an activity he was not prepared for, threw myself at his feet, and begged him, in the most moving tone, not to be rude, and that he would not hurt me. “Hurt you, my dear?” says the brute, “I intend you no harm. Has not the old lady told you that I love you? that I shall do handsomely by you?”

“She has indeed, sir,” said I, “but I cannot love you, indeed I cannot! pray let me alone! yes! I will love you dearly if you will let me alone and go away.” But I was talking to the wind, for whether my tears, my attitude, or the disorder of my dress proved fresh incentives, or whether he was now under the dominion of desires he could not bridle, but snorting and foaming with lust and rage, he renews his attack, seizes me, and again attempts to extend and fix me on the settee: in which he succeeded so far as to lay me along, and even to toss my petticoats over my head, and lay my thighs bare, which I obstinately kept close, nor could he, though he attempted with his knee to force them open, effect it so as to stand fair for being master of the main avenue; he was unbuttoned, both waistcoat and breeches, yet I only felt the weight of his body upon me, whilst I lay struggling with indignation, and dying with terrors; but he stopped all of a sudden, and got off, panting, blowing, cursing, and repeating “old and ugly!” for so I had very naturally called him in the heat of my defence.

The brute had, it seems, as I afterwards understood, brought on, by his eagerness and struggle, the ultimate period of his hot fit of lust, which his power was too short-lived to carry him through the full execution of; of which my thighs and linen received the effusion.

When it was over he bid me, with a tone of displeasure, get up: “that he would not do me the honour to think of me any more; that the old b----h might look out for another cully; that he would not be fooled so by ever a country mock modesty in England; that he supposed I had left my maidenhead with some hobnail in the country, and was come to dispose of my skim-
-milk in town” with a volley of the like abuse; which I listened to with more pleasure than ever fond woman did to protestations of love from her darling minion: for, incapable as I was of receiving any addition to my perfect hatred and aversion to him, I looked on this railing, as my security against his renewing his most odious caress.

Yet, plain as Mrs. Brown’s views were now come out, I had not the heart, or spirit to open my eyes to them: still I could not part with my dependence on that beldam, so much did I think myself hers, soul and body: or rather, I sought to deceive myself with the continuation of my good opinion of her, and choose to wait the worst at her hands, sooner than be turned out to starve in the streets, without a penny of money or a friend to apply to these fears were my folly.

While this confusion of ideas was passing in my head, and I sat pensively by the fire, with my eyes brimming with tears, my neck still bare, and my cap fallen off in the struggle, so that my hair was in the disorder you may guess, the villain’s lust began, I suppose, to be again in flow, at the sight of all that bloom of youth which presented itself to his view, a bloom yet unenjoyed, and of course not yet indifferent to him.

After some pause, he asked me with a tone of voice mightily softer, whether I would make it up with him before the old lady returned, and all should be well; he would restore me to his affections, at the same time offering to kiss me and feel my breasts. But now my extreme aversion, my fears, my indignation, all acting upon me, gave me a spirit not natural to me, so that breaking loose from him, I ran to the bell and rang it, with such violence and effect as to bring up the maid to know what was the matter, or whether the gentleman wanted anything; and before he could proceed to greater extremities, she bounced into the room, and seeing me stretched on the floor, my hair all dishevelled, my nose gushing out blood, which did not a little tragedize the scene, and my odious persecutor still intent of pushing his brutal point, unmoved by all my cries and distress, she was herself confounded and did not know what to do.

As much, however, as Martha might be prepared and hardened to transactions of this sort, all womanhood must have been out of her heart could she have seen this unmoved. Besides that, on the face of things, she imagined that matters had gone greater lengths than they really had, and that the courtesy of the house had been actually consummated on me, and flung: me into the condition I was in: in this notion she instantly took my part, and advised the gentleman to go down and leave me to recover myself, and “that all would be soon over with me; that when Mrs. Brown and Phoebe, who were gone out, were returned, they would take order for everything to his satisfaction; that nothing would be lost by a little patience with the poor tender thing; that for her part she was frightened; she could not tell what to say to such doings; but that she would stay by me till my mistress came home.” As the wench said all this in a resolute tone, and the monster himself began to perceive that things would not mend by his staying, he took his hat and went out of the room murmuring and pitting his brows like an old ape, so that I was delivered from the horrors of his detestable presence.

As soon as he was gone, Martha very tenderly offered me her assistance in anything, and would have got me some hartshorn drops and put me to bed; which last I, at first, positively refused, in the fear that the monster might return and take me at that disadvantage. However, with much persuasion and assurances that I should not be molested that night she prevailed on me to lie down; and indeed I was so weakened by my struggles, so dejected by my fearful apprehension, so terror-struck, that I had not power to sit up, or hardly to give answers to the questions with which the curious Martha plied and perplexed me.

Such too, and so cruel was my fate, that I dreaded the sight of Mrs. Brown, as if I had been the criminal, and she the person injured; a mistake which you will not think so strange, on distinguishing that neither virtue nor principles had the least share in the defence I had made, but only the particular aversion I had conceived against this first brutal and frightful invader of my tender innocence.

I passed then the time till Mrs. Brown came home, under all the agitations of fear and despair that may easily be guessed.

About eleven at night my two ladies came home, and having received rather a favourable account from Martha, who had run down to let them in, for Mr. Crofts (that was the name of my brute) was gone out of the house, after waiting till he had tired his patience for Mrs. Brown’s return, they came thundering up stairs, and seeing me pale, my face bloody, and all the marks of the most thorough dejection, they employed themselves more to comfort and re-
-inspirit me than in making me the reproaches I was weak enough to fear, I who had so many juster and stronger to retort upon them.

Mrs. Brown withdrawn, Phoebe came presently to bed to me, and what with the answers she drew from me, what with her own method of palpably satisfying herself, she soon discovered that I had been more frightened than hurt; upon which I suppose, being herself seized with sleep, and reserving her lectures and instructions till the next morning, she left me, properly speaking, to my unrest; for, later tossing and turning the greatest part of the night, and tormenting myself with the falsest notions and apprehensions of things, I fell, through mere fatigue into a kind of delirious doze, out of which I waked late in the morning, in a violent fever: a circumstance which was extremely critical to reprieve me, at least for a time, from the attacks of a wretch, infinitely more terrible to me than death itself.

The interested care that was taken of me during my illness, in order to restore me to a condition of making good the bawd’s engagements, or of enduring further trials, had, however, such an effect on my grateful disposition that I even thought myself obliged to my un-doers for their attention to promote my recovery; and, above all, for the keeping out of my sight of that brutal ravisher, the author of my disorder, on their finding I was too strongly moved at the bare mention of his name.

Youth is soon raised, and a few days were sufficient to conquer the fury of my fever: but, what contributed most to my perfect recovery and to my reconciliation with life, was the timely news that Mr. Crofts, who was a merchant of considerable dealings, was arrested at the King’s suit, for nearly forty thousand pounds, on account of his driving a certain contraband trade, and that his affairs were so desperate, that even were it in his inclination, it would not be in his power to renew his designs upon me: for he was instantly thrown into a prison, which it was not likely he would get out of in haste.

Mrs. Brown, who had touched his fifty guineas, advanced to so little purpose, and lost all hopes of the remaining hundred, began to look upon my treatment of him with a more favourable eye; and as they had observed my temper to be perfectly tractable and conformable to their views, all the girls that composed her flock were suffered to visit me, and had their cue to dispose me, by their conversation, to a perfect resignation of myself to Mrs. Brown’s direction.

Accordingly they were let in upon me, and all that frolic and thoughtless gaiety in which those giddy creatures consume either leisure, made me envy a condition of which I only saw the fair side; insomuch, that the being one of them became even my ambition: a disposition which they all carefully cultivated; and I wanted now nothing but to restore my health, that I might be able to undergo the ceremony of the initiation.

Conversation, example, in short all, contributed, in that house, to corrupt my native parity, which had taken no root in education; whilst now the inflammable principal of pleasure, so easily fired at my age, made strange work within me, and all the modesty I was brought up in the habit, not the instruction of, began to melt away like dew before the sun’s heat; not to mention that I made a vice of necessity, from the constant fears I had of being turned out to starve.

I was soon pretty well recovered, and at certain hours allowed to range all over the house, but cautiously kept from seeing any company till the arrival of Lord B----, from Bath, to whom Mrs. Brown, in respect to his experienced generosity on such occasions, proposed to offer the perusal of that trinket of mine, which bears so great an imaginary value; and his lordship being expected in town in less than a fortnight, Mrs. Brown judged I would be entirely renewed in beauty and freshness by that time, and afforded her the chance of a better bargain than she had driven with Mr. Crofts.

In the meantime, I was so thoroughly, as they call it, brought over, so tame to their whistle, that, had my cage door been set open, I had no idea that I ought to fly anywhere, sooner than stay where I was; nor had I the least sense of regretting my condition, but waited very quietly for whatever Mrs. Brown should order concerning me; who on her side, by herself and her agents, took more than the necessary precautions to lull and lay asleep all just reflections on my destiny.

Preachments of morality over the left shoulder; a life of joy painted in the gayest colours; caresses, promises, indulgent treatment; nothing, in short, was wanting to domesticate me entirely and to prevent my going out anywhere to get better advice. Alas! I dreamed of no such thing.

Hitherto I had been indebted only to the girls of the house for the corruption of my innocence: their luscious talk, in which modesty was far from respected, their description of their engagements with men, had given me a tolerable insight into the nature and mysteries of their profession, at the same time that they highly provoked an itch of florid warm-spirited blood through every vein: but above all, my bed fellow Phoebe, whose pupil I more immediately was, exerted her talents in giving me the first tinctures of pleasure: whilst nature, now warmed and wantoned with discoveries so interesting, piqued a curiosity which Phoebe artfully whetted, and leading me from question to question of her own suggestion, explained to me all the mysteries of Venus. But I could not long remain in such a house as that, without being an eye-witness of more than I could conceive from her descriptions.

One day, about twelve at noon, being thoroughly recovered of my fever, I happened to be in Mrs. Brown’s dark closet, where I had not been half an hour, resting upon the maid’s bed, before I heard a rustling in the bed-chamber, separated from the closet only by two sash doors, before the glasses of which were drawn two yellow damask curtains, but not so close as to exclude the full view of the room from any person in the closet.

I instantly crept softly and posted myself so, that seeing everything minutely, I could not myself be seen; and who should come in but the venerable mother Abbess herself! handed in by a tall, brawny young Horse-grenadiers, moulded in the Hercules style: in fine, the choice of the most experienced dame, in those affairs, in all London.

Oh! how still and hush did I keep at my stand, lest any noise should baulk my curiosity, or bring Madam into the closet!

But I had not much reason to fear either, for she was entirely taken up with her present great concern, that she had no sense of attention to spare to anything else.

Droll was it to see that clumsy fat figure of her’s flop down on the foot of the bed, opposite to the closet door so that I had a full front view of all her charms.

Her paramour sat down by her: he seemed to be a man of very few words, and a great stomach; for proceeding instantly to essentials, he gave her some hearty smacks, and thrusting his hands into her breasts, disengaged them from her stays, in scorn of whose confinement they broke loose, and sagged down, navel-low at least. A more enormous pair did my eyes never behold, nor of a worse colour, flagging, soft, and most lovingly contiguous: yet such as they were, this great beef-eater seemed to paw them with a most unenviable lust, seeking in vain to confine or cover one of them with a hand scarce less than a shoulder of mutton. After toying with them thus some time, as if they had been worth it, he laid her down pretty briskly, and canting up her petticoats, made barely a mask of them to her broad red face, that blushed with nothing but brandy.

As he stood on one side, unbuttoning his waistcoat and breeches, her fat brawny thighs hung down, and the whole greasy landscape lay fairly open to my view; a wide open mouthed gap, overshaded with a grizzly bush, seemed held out like a beggar’s wallet for its provision.

But I soon had my eyes called off by a more striking object that entirely engrossed them.

Her sturdy stallion had now unbuttoned, and produced naked, stiff and erect, that wonderful machine, which I had never seen before, and which, for the interest my own seat of pleasure began to take furiously in it, I stared at with all the eyes I had: however, my senses were too much flurried, too much concentered in that now burning spot of mine, to observe anything more than in general the make and turn of that instrument; from which the instinct of nature, yet more than all I had heard of it, now strongly informed me, I was to expect that supreme pleasure which she had placed in the meeting of those parts so admirably fitted for each other.

Long, however, the young spark did not remain before giving it two or three shakes, by way of brandishing it, he threw himself upon her, and his back being now towards me, I could only take his being ingulphed for granted, by the directions he moved in, and the impossibility of missing so staring a mark; and now the bed shook, the curtains rattled so that I could scarce hear the sighs and murmurs, the heaves and pantings that accompanied the action, from the beginning to the end; the sound and sight of which thrilled to the very soul of me, and made every vein of my body circulate liquid fires: the emotion grew so violent that it almost intercepted my respiration.

Prepared then, and disposed as I was by the discourse of my companions, and Phoebe’s minute detail of everything, no wonder that such a sight gave the last dying blow to my native innocence.

Whilst they were in the heat of the action, guided by nature only, I stole my hand up my petticoats, and with fingers on fire, seized and yet more inflamed that center of all my senses: my heart palpitated, as if it would force its way through my bosom: I breathed with pain; I twisted my thighs, squeezed and compressed the lips of that virgin slit, and following mechanically the example of Phoebe’s manual operation on it, as far as I could find admission, brought on at last the critical ecstasy, the melting flow, into which nature, spent with excess of pleasure, dissolves and dies away.

After which, my senses recovered coolness enough to observe the rest of the transaction between this happy pair.

The young fellow had just dismounted, when the old lady immediately sprung up, with all the vigour of youth, derived, no doubt, from her late refreshment; and making him sit down, began in her turn to kiss him, to pat and pinch his cheeks, and play with his hair: all which he received with an air of indifference and coolness that showed him to be much altered from what he was when he first went on to the breach.

My pious governess, however, not being above calling in auxiliaries, unlocks a little case of cordials that stood near the bed, and made him pledge her in a very plentiful dram: after which, and a little amorous parley, Madam set herself down upon the same place, at the bed’s foot; and the young fellow standing sidewise by her, she, with the greatest effrontery imaginable, unbuttons his breeches, and removing his shirt, draws out his affair, so shrunk and diminished, that I could not but remember the difference, now crest-fallen, or just faintly lifting its head: but our experience matron very soon, by chaffing it with her hands, brought it to swell to that size and erection I had before seen it up to.

I admired then, upon a fresh account, and with a nicer survey, the texture of that capital part of man: the flaming red head as it stood uncapt, the whiteness of the shaft, and the shrub growth of curling hair that embrowned the foots of it, the roundish bag that dangled down from it, all exacted my eager attention, and renewed my flame. But, as the main affair was now at the point the industrious dame had laboured to bring it to, she was not in the humour to put off the payment of her pains, but laying herself down, drew him gently upon her, and thus they finished, in the same manner as before, the old last act.

This over, they both went out lovingly together, the old lady having first made him a present, as near as I could observe, of three or four pieces; he being not only her particular favourite on account of his performances, but a retainer to the house; from whose sight she had taken great care hitherto to secret me, lest he might not have had patience to wait for my lord’s arrival, but have insisted on being his taster, which the old lady was under too much subjection to him to dare dispute with him; for every girl of the house fell to him in course, and the old lady only now and then got her turn, in consideration of the maintenance he had, and which he could scarce be accused of not earning from her.

As soon as I heard them go down-stairs, I stole up softly to my own room, out of which I had luckily not been missed; there I began to breathe more free, and to give a loose to those warm emotions which the sight of such an encounter had raised in me, I laid me down on the bed, stretched myself out, joining and ardently wishing, and requiring any means to divert or allay the rekindled rage and tumult of my desires, which all pointed strongly to their pole: man. I felt about the bed as if I sought for something that I grasped in my waking dream, and not finding it, could have cried for vexation; every part of me plowing with simulated fires. At length, I resorted to the only present remedy, that of vain attempts at digitation, where the small-ness of the theatre did not yet afford room enough for action, and where the pain my fingers gave me, in striving for admission, though they procured me a slight satisfaction for the present, started an apprehension which I could not be easy till I had communicated to Phoebe and received her explanations upon it.

The opportunity, however, did not offer till next morning, for Phoebe did not come to bed till long after I was gone to sleep. As soon then as we were both awake, it was but in course to bring our ly-a-bed chat to hand, on the subject of my uneasiness: to which a recital of the love scene I had thus, by chance, been spectatress of, served for a preface.

Phoebe could not hear it to the end without more than one interruption by peals of laughter, and my ingenuous way of relating matters did not a little heighten the joke to her.

But, on her sounding me how the sight had affected me, without mincing or hiding the pleasurable emotions it had inspired me with, I told her at the same time that one remark had perplexed me, and that very considerably. “Aye!” says she, “what was that?” “Why,” replied I, “having very curiously and attentively compared the size of that enormous machine, which did not appear, at least to my fearful imagination, less than my wrist, and at least three of my hand-fuls long, to that of the tender small part of me which was framed to receive it, I could not conceive its being possible to afford it entrance without dying, perhaps in the greatest pain, since she well knew that even a finger thrust in there hurt me beyond bearing. As to my mistress’s and yours, I can very plainly distinguish the different dimensions of them from mine, palpable to the touch, and visible to the eye; so that, in short, great as the promised pleasure may be, I am afraid of the pain of the experiment.”

Phoebe at this redoubled her laugh, and whilst I expected a very serious solution of my doubts and apprehensions in this matter, only told me that “she never heard of a mortal wound being given in those parts, by that terrible weapon, and that some she knew younger, and as delicately made as myself, had outlived the operation; that she believed, at the worst, I should take a great deal of liking; that true it was, there was a great diversity of sizes in those parts, owing to nature, child-bearing, frequent over-stretching with unmerciful machines, but that at a certain age and habit of body, even the most experienced in those affairs could not well distinguish between the maid and the woman, supposing too an absence of all artifice, in their natural situation: but that since chance had thrown in my way one sight of that sort, she would procure me another, that should feast my eyes more delicately, and go a great way in the cure of my fears from that imaginary disproportion”.

On this she asked me if I knew Polly Phillips? “Undoubterly,” says I, “the fair girl which was so tender of me when I was sick, and has been, as you told me, but two months in the house.” “The same,” says Phoebe. “You must know then, she is kept by a young Genoes merchant, whom his uncle, who is immensely rich, and whose darling he is, on a pretex of settling some accounts, but in reality to humour his inclinations for travelling, and seeing the world. He met casually with this Polly once in company, and taking a likning to her, makes it worth her while to keep entirely to him. He comes to her here twice or thrice a week, and she receives him in the light closet up one pair of stairs, where he enjoys her in a taste, I suppose, peculiar to the heat, or perhaps the caprices of his own country, I say no more, but to-morrow being his day, you shall see what passes between them, from a place only known to your mistress and myself.”

You may be sure, in the ply I was now taking, I had no objection to the proposal, and was rather a tip-toe for its accomplishments.

At five in the evening next day, Phoebe, punctual to her promise, came to me as I sat alone in my own room, and beckoned me to follow her.

We went down the back stairs very softly, and opening the door of a dark closet, where there was some old furniture kept, and some cases of liquor, she drew me in after her, and fastened the door upon us, we had no light but what came through a long crevice in the partition between ours and the light closet, where the scene of action lay; so that sitting on those low cases, we could, with the greatest ease, as well as clearness, see all objects (ourselves unseen), only by applying our eyes close to the crevice, where the moulding of a panel had warped, or started a little on the other side.

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Zaznacz zdania prawdziwe literą T (true), a fałszywe – literą F (false).

1. Fanny didn’t catch the disease which caused her parents’ death.

2. Esther Davis changed her attitude towards Fanny after they’d reached their destination.

3. When Phoebe first kissed her, Fanny felt ashamed and abused.

4. Mrs. Brown’s “cousin” was an elderly yet still attractive man.

5. When Fanny confessed what she had seen, Phoebe offered to show her even more.

O słowach

ILLEGIBLE/ILLITERATE/UNREADABLE

“My education, till past fourteen, was no better than very vulgar: reading, or rather spelling, an illegible scrawl (…).”

Przymiotnik illegible oznacza nieczytelny – niedający się odczytać lub trudny do odczytania, np.:

It’s pretty hard to mark a student’s test if their handwriting is illegible.

Bardzo ciężko jest ocenić test ucznia, jeśli jego pismo jest nieczytelne.

This article is completely illegible – it must have been copied a hundred times.

Ten artykuł jest bardzo trudny do odczytania – musiał zostać skopiowany ze sto razy.

Illiterate to niepiśmienny (nieumiejący pisać ani czytać), np.:

The numer of illiterate people in the area didn’t decrease until 1950s.

Liczba osób niepiśmiennych w tym rejonie nie zmalała do lat 1950.

Illiterate stosuje się także przenośnie – odnosi się on wówczas do osób mających braki w wykształceniu, niedouczonych, np.:

The vast majority of the society is economically illiterate.

Znaczna większość społeczeństwa ma braki w wiedzy o ekonomii.

Illiterate może również odnosić się do tekstu, który zdradza braki w wykształceniu czy umiejętności poprawnego posługiwania się językiem autora, np.:

The composition of hers is absolutely illiterate.

Jej wypracowanie świadczy o jej kompletnym niedouczeniu.

Przymiotnik unreadable to niedający się czytać, niestrawny i odnosi się do tekstu, np.:

He was disgusted when I confessed I’d found that masterpiece unreadable.

Był zniesmaczony, kiedy wyznałam, że uznałam to dzieło za niestrawne.

Unreadable może również oznaczać nieczytelny w tym samym sensie, co illegible.

Gramatyka

NEITHER, NOR I SO

“Nor can I remember, without laughing, the innocent admiration, not without a spice of envy, with which we poor girls, whose church-going clothes did not rise above dowlas shifts and stuff gowns, beplaced with silver: all which we imagined grew in London, and entered for a great deal into my determination of trying to come in for my share of them.”

Nor i neither oznaczają ani; neither… nor… – ani… ani…, np.:

A: I can’t solve this puzzle! B: Neither can I!

A: Nie umiem rozwiązać tej zagadki! B: Ani ja! (Ja też nie).

The old woman could neither read nor write.

Stara kobieta nie umiała ani czytać, ani pisać.

Po obydwu wyrazach często stosuje się szyk przestawny (inwersję). Przyjrzyj się przykładom:

I don’t like these neighbours and neither does my wife.

Nie lubię tych sąsiadów i moja żona też nie.

Peter isn’t very fit, nor is he determined. He’d not be the best candidate for our team.

Peter nie jest szczególnie sprawny ani zdeterminowany. Nie byłby najlepszym kandydatem do naszej drużyny.

Struktura neither/nor + czasownik + podmiot (neither do I, nor can we, neither is he) oznacza też nie (ja też nie, my też nie, on też nie). Po neither/nor występuje w tym znaczeniu czasownik posiłkowy odpowiedni dla danego czasu lub odpowiedni czasownik modalny, np.:

Present Simple

A: I don’t want to stay here. B: Neither do I.

A: Nie chcę tu zostawać. B: Ja też nie.

Past Simple

A: I didn’t believe her. B: Neither did I.

A: Nie uwierzyłem jej. B: Ja też nie.

Present Continuous

A: We’re not planning to join. B: Nor are we.

A: Nie planujemy dołączyć. B: My też nie.

Past Continuous

A: We weren’t sleeping. B: Neither was she.

A: Nie spaliśmy. B: Ona też nie.

Future

A: I won’t conform to such policies. B: Neither will we.

A: Nie zgodzę się na takie zasady. B: My też nie.

Present Perfect

A: Kathleen hasn’t finished her part. B: Nor has David.

A: Kathleen nie skończyła swojej części. B: David też nie.

Past Perfect

A: I hadn’t seen that face before. B: Nor had I.

A: Nie widziałem tej twarzy wcześniej. B: Ja też nie.

Czasowniki modalne

A: Jim can’t cope with it. B: Neither can the others.

A: Jim nie może dać sobie z tym rady. B: Pozostali też nie.

Analogicznie tworzymy wypowiedzi typu ja/on/my też. Zamiast nor/neither używamy wówczas so, np.:

A: I can dance! B: So can I!

A: Umiem tańczyć! B: Ja też!

A: Gina will participate. B: So will Tom.

A: Gina weźmie udział. B: Tom też.

A: I’ve already seen this movie. B: So have we.

A: Już widziałem ten film. B: My też.

A: I passed with flying colours! B: So did I!

A: Zdałam śpiewająco! B: Ja też.

Kultura i historia

SATYR

Satyrowie to istoty wywodzące się z mitologii starożytnej Grecji, nieodłączni towarzysze i członkowie orszaku boga Dionizosa. Przypominamy, Dionizos był bóstwem dzikiej, nieujarzmionej przyrody, instynktów, płodności, wina oraz wszelkiego rodzaju ekstazy. Podobnie jak bóg, któremu służyli, satyrowie kojarzeni byli przede wszystkim z witalnością, naturą i popędami, w szczególności z męskim pierwiastkiem płciowości.

Elementy te znalazły symboliczne ucieleśnienie w tradycyjnym wizerunku satyrów. W klasycznym okresie cywilizacji greckiej ukazywano ich jako nieokrzesanych, mocno zbudowanych mężczyzn, obdarzonych końskimi ogonami i uszami oraz niezmiennie wzwiedzionymi, nieproporcjonalnie dużymi członkami. W epoce hellenistycznej satyrowie zyskali dodatkowo kozie nogi, kopyta i ogony. Zawsze natomiast byli kudłaci, rozczochrani i silni, a z ich zmierzwionych czupryn sterczały niewielkie różki. W sztuce spotyka się przedstawienia satyrów młodych i starych. Ci drudzy, zwani sylenami (imię Sylen nosił również naczelny satyr, bliski druh samego Dionizosa i posłaniec Hermesa) byli zazwyczaj brodaci, łysi i cierpieli na niemożliwą do przegapienia nadwagę. To właśnie syleni stali się archetypem utrwalonego w popularnym językowym zwrocie „starego satyra”, mężczyzny w sile wieku, wykazującego nieprzyzwoite zainteresowanie znacznie młodszymi od siebie dziewczętami. Warto dodać, że jakkolwiek mitologiczni satyrowie nie byli nieśmiertelni, to dożywali bardzo sędziwego, nieosiągalnego dla ludzi wieku.

Bez względu na wiek satyrowie uwielbiali raczyć się winem, w związku z czym starożytni artyści często ukazywali ich z kielichami bądź bukłakami w dłoniach oraz z głowami oplecionymi pnączami winorośli. Poza trunkami doceniali również wszelkie pozostałe doznania zmysłowe. Kochali spać, ucztować oraz korzystać z przyjemnostek życia erotycznego. Do tych ostatnich zabaw nakłaniali – nierzadko przemocą – nimfy, boginki leśne, także należące do świty Dionizosa i stanowiące żeński odpowiednik satyrów. Satyrom nieobce były muzyka i taniec. Na starożytnych wazach często widuje się satyrów grających na fletniach Pana, prostych fujarkach lub innych instrumentach.

W stosunkach z ludźmi satyrowie pozostawali zazwyczaj obojętni, aczkolwiek była to obojętność stworzenia dzikiego i nieprzewidywalnego, które wprawdzie nie życzy człowiekowi źle, lecz z drugiej strony ludzka krzywda nie wywiera na nim wrażenia. Z tego powodu ludzie pozostawali wobec satyrów w najlepszym razie nieufni, a najczęściej odczuwali wobec nich identyczny lęk jak wobec wszystkich nieujarzmionych i gwałtownych sił przyrody.

Ze względu na wybitnie niemoralny tryb życia – notoryczne folgowanie rozbuchanemu popędowi płciowemu oraz wszelkim innym, najbardziej pierwotnym instynktom – w epoce chrześcijańskiego Średniowiecza rogaci, chodzący na kozich nogach satyrowie stracili zarówno swą nazwę, jak i status żyjących w głuszy półbożków, a stali się wzorcem, na którym Kościół oparł propagowaną przez siebie ludową wizję diabłów.

Ćwiczenia

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1. Połącz wyrazy (1–10) z ich synonimami i definicjami (A–J).

1. adorn

2. affliction

3. assault

4. bestow

5. conscientious

6. destitute

7. drudgery

8. perplexed

9. provide

10. resolution

A) to give someone something valuable

B) to decorate

C) hard work, toil

D) misery, something that causes pain

E) a decision

F) confused, not knowing what to do

G) having no money

H) to furnish, to supply

I) an attack

J) careful at doing a task

2. Uzupełnij zdania wyrazami z ramki w odpowiedniej formie.

awkward; gush; imminent; incentive; irreparable; omit; preface; preserve; retort; surrender

a) In the ………………………, the author explains the reasons why she decided to describe the shameful events.

b) His death was a/an ……………………… loss to the entire community.

c) If we don’t ……………………… the existing forests, future generations will condemn us.

d) He made a/an ……………………… gesture as if he didn’t know what to say.

e) Tears ……………………… from her eyes as she heard the news.

f) The enemy ……………………… three months ago.

g) Do not ……………………… any important facts in your essays.

h) I was terrified to see the child in ……………………… danger of being hurt.

i) Some students lack any tangible ……………………… to improve their skills.

j) “It was all your fault”, she ……………………… angrily.

3. Utwórz odpowiedzi do poniższych zdań, zaczynając od so lub neither/nor.

a) A: I hate getting up early.

B: ……………………………………………………………….

b) A: I’ve never seen such a stupid film.

B: ……………………………………………………………….

c) A: I didn’t believe her at first.

B: ……………………………………………………………….

d) A: I wouldn’t stay here any longer if I didn’t have to.

B: ……………………………………………………………….

e) A: I’m going to spend all Sunday doing nothing.

B: ……………………………………………………………….

f) A: I’ll try to do my best.

B: ……………………………………………………………….

g) A: I don’t trust them.

B: ……………………………………………………………….

h) A: I’m doing Spanish this year.

B: ……………………………………………………………….

i) A: I won’t obey this rule.

B: ……………………………………………………………….

j) A: I was totally confused.

B: ……………………………………………………………….

4. Napisz esej na jeden z tematów (około 300 wyrazów):

a) Should Prostitution Be Legal?

b) Famous Prostitutes in History.

c) Famous Prostitutes in Art and Literature.

Klucz

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Ćwiczenie 1

1. B

2. D

3. I

4. A

5. J

6. G

7. C

8. F

9. H

10. E

Ćwiczenie 2

a) preface

b) irreparable

c) preserve

d) awkward

e) gushed

f) surrendered

g) omit

h) imminent

i) incentive

j) retorted

Ćwiczenie 3

a) So do I.

b) Neither/Nor have I.

c) Neither/Nor did I.

d) Neither/Nor would I.

e) So am I.

f) So will I.

g) Neither/Nor do I.

h) So am I.

i) Neither/Nor will I.

j) So was I.

indispensable: obowiązujący

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at length: w końcu

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blessing: błogosławieństwo

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bestow: obdarzać

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afford: zapewniać

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affluence: dostatek, bogactwo

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despicable: podły, nikczemny

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whirl: wir

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loose: rozwiązły

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exert: używać

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capital: główny

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mortally: śmiertelnie

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preface: wstęp, przedmowa

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give sb quarter: okazać komuś litość

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liberty: wolność; tupet, bezczelność

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stark: nagi; surowy; trudny do zaakceptowania

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gauze: gaza (tkanina)

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intimacy: życie intymne; zażyłość

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scruple: mieć skrupuły; wahać się

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adorn: ozdabiać, przystrajać

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in compliance with: zgodnie z

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premise: zakładać; poczynić wstępne uwagi

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go souse: zanurzać się

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piously: pobożnie, nabożnie

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maim: rana; okaleczenia

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laborious: mozolny, żmudny

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drudgery: mozół, ciężka praca

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scanty: skąpy

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subsistence: środki utrzymania

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constitution: zdrowie, stan fizyczny

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vulgar: pospolity, prostacki

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scrawl: bazgrolenie

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virtue: cnota

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vice: występek; rozpusta

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timidity: bojaźliwość, wstydliwość

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novelty: nowość

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at the expense of sth: kosztem czegoś

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by degrees: stopniowo

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creature of prey: drapieżnik

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befall (befell; befallen): przypaść (komuś)

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tender: czuły

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carry off: zabierać, usuwać, pochłaniać

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small-pox: ospa

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thereby: tym samym, skutkiem tego

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distemper: choroba

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seize: dopaść

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affliction: niedola, utrapienie

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giddiness: niefrasobliwość

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dissipate: rozproszyć się

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irreparable loss: niepowetowana strata

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reconcile (to): pogodzić się (z)

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become (became, become) of: stać się z

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scheme: plan

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resolution: postanowienie

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make a launch: wypuścić się, zapuścić się

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repair: udawać się

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inspirit: dodawać otuchy

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pique: rozbudzać

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diversion: atrakcja, rozrywka

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turn sb’s head: zawrócić komuś w głowie

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dowlas: grube płótno

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shift: halka

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stuff: wełniany; z pospolitego materiału

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gown: suknia

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trivial: błahy, mało znaczący

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preserve: zachowywać, ocalać

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vastly: ogromnie, wielce

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grand: wielkopański, wspaniały

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may-hap: być może

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duchess: księżna

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almanac: almanach, kalendarz

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tip-toe: w stanie gotowości, podekscytowany

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insupportable: nie do zniesienia

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guinea: gwinea (moneta)

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shilling: szyling (moneta)

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stow: składać, przechowywać

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spring-pouch: woreczek, sakiewka

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conceive: pojąć, wymyślić

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immence = immense: ogromny

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waggon: powóz

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immaterial: nieistotny

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insignificance: brak znaczenia, błahość

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waggoner: woźnica

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liquorish: pijacki; mający skłonność do trunków

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valiance: bohaterstwo, heroizm

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tax: obarczyć (finansowo)

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defray: opłacać, pokryć

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overrate: przeceniać; tu: narzucać zbyt wysoką cenę

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impose on: narzucać się

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frugally: oszczędnie

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conveyance: środek transportu

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mortification: wstyd, zażenowanie

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protectress: protektorka, opiekunka

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tenderness: czułość

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preceeding = preceding:  poprzedzający

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stunning: oszałamiający

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assume: przybierać

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air: poza, nastrój

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burden: brzemię, ciężar

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proffer: oferować, proponować

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office: zajęcie, zadanie

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abundantly: aż nadto; wyraźnie

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acquit (of): uwolnić (z), zwolnić (z)

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procedure: postępowanie

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confounded: skonfundowany, zdezorientowany

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attribute to: przypisywać (czemuś)

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concern: obawa, troska

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procure: dostarczać

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slight: drobny

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alleviation: złagodzenie

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harangue: tyrada, przemówienie

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by all means: jak najbardziej

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parish-church: kościół parafialny

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intelligence office: biuro pośrednictwa pracy dla służby

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in the meantime: tymczasem, w tym czasie

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acquaint: zapoznać, zaznajomić

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have the grace: mieć dość przyzwoitości (żeby)

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disgrace: hańba, niesława

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destitute: pozbawiony środków do życia

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severity: srogość, powaga

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infinitely: nieskończenie, ogromnie

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stupified = stupefied:  ogłupiały, oszołomiony

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perplexed: zakłopotany

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dispose (of): rozporządzać, dysponować

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in vain: na próżno

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provide for: troszczyć się o

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trifling: drobny, znikomy

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consolation: pocieszenie

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agony: cierpienie

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furnish: dostarczać

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rustic: wieśniaczy, prosty

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venture out: odważyć się wyjść

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barely: ledwie, niespełna

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receipt: przyjęcie, tu: recepcja, punkt przyjęć

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custom: klientela

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scroll: lista

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personage: osobistość

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errand: sprawa

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curtsy: dygnięcie

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stammer out: wyjąkać

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gravity: powaga

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brow: wyraz twarzy

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petty: małostkowy, małoduszny

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preliminary: wstępny

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assume courage: zbierać się na odwagę

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full tilt: z pełną mocą; z pełną prędkością

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pronounce: uznawać

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velvet: aksamitny

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mantle: peleryna

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bonnet: czepek

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squat: przysadzisty, krępy

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air: wygląd, mina

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undergo (underwent; undergone): zostać poddanym, przejść (coś)

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render: uczynić (coś jakimś)

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prim: robić poważną minę

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demureness: fałszywa skromność; powaga

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curtsey: dygnięcie

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vile: podły, nikczemny

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tractable: posłuszny, uległy

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practitioner: zawodowiec

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artless: prosty, szczery

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matron-like: przypominająca matronę

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flattering: pochlebny

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shrewed = shrewd: przbiegły

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beldam: starsza kobieta

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presume: przypuszczać

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lest: żeby nie

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officiously: nadgorliwie

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scruple: skrupuły

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plausible: budzący zaufanie, przekonujący

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flam: bujda

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conclude: wyciągać wnioski

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exultation: radość

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parlor: salonik

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gilt: pozłacany

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pier-glass: zwierciadło

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buffet: kredens

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shew = show

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dazzle: olśniewać, oślepiać

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reputable: szanowany

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profound: głęboki

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awkward: niezręczny, niezgrabny

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linen: bielizna

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prodigious: ogromny, niezwykły

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arch-jade: niezwykle zalotna dziewczyna, kokietka, kobieta skłonna do flirtów

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decoy: pułapka; przynęta

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cue: wskazówka; sygnał

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encomium: pochwała

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bespeak (bespoke; bespoken): zamawiać

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gross: ordynarny; rażący

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simpleton: prostak, naiwniak

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parlour = parlor: salonik

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filly: dziewczę, podfruwajka

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mounting block: schodki do wsiadania i zsiadania z konia

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allot: wyznaczać

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confer: nadawać (komuś)

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venerable: czcigodny

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tutoress: opiekunka

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elect: wybrany

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affectionately: z uczuciem, czule

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in pursuance of: dążąc do

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over-rule: nie zważać na, lekceważyć

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humble: pokorny, uniżony

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breeding: wychowanie

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augment: powiększyć

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novice: nowicjusz

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withal: niemniej jednak, jednakowoż

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finery: odświętny strój

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clause of confinement: nakaz odosobnienia

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digest: przyswajać

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provide: dostarczać

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maidenhead: dziewictwo

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slip over: przechodzić przez, prześlizgnąć się przez

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interval: okres, odstęp

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reluctance: ociąganie, niechęć

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allowance: uwzględnienie

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havoc: spustoszenie

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hackneyship: pospolitość; bycie w zaprzęgu

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upon the spur: nagle

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stale: przebrzmiały

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lewdness: lubieżność, sprośność

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impute (to sth): przypisywać (czemuś)

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be behind-hand with: być dłużnym

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fervor: zapał, żar

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intermingle: przeplatać

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bribe: przekupić

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distinguish: wyróżniać, odróżniać

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tame: potulny

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licentious: lubieżny

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lambent: pełzający (o ogniu)

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thaw: rozmrażać, roztapiać

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down: puch, meszek

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garnish: dekorować, przystrajać

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mount: wzgórze, wzgórek

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exquisite: cudowny, wyjątkowy

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twine: splatać, owijać

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tendril: pnącze, pęd, wąs (rośliny)

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moss: mech

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contrive: wynaleźć, wymyślić

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contented: zadowolony

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twitch: szarpać, ciągnąć

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insinuate: wślizgiwać się, torować sobie drogę

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quick: czuły punkt; żywe ciało

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inflame: rozpalać

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resistance: opór

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assault: atak

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lascivious: pożądliwy, lubieżny

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wanton: swawolić, używać sobie

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compress: ściskać

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extension: rozciągnięcie, rozszerzenie

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limb: kończyna

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languid: ospały, apatyczny

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heaving: falowanie, pchnięcie

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conspire: knuć, współdziałać

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as-ure = assure

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wanton: rozpustnik

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season: przyprawiać, przybierać

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thou = you

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art = are

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for sb’s sake: ze względu na kogoś

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salacious: sprośny

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transported: zachwycony, uniesiony

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tumult: chaos, zamieszanie

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gush: tryskać

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assuage: łagodzić, uspokajać

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hackneyed: pospolity, banalny

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thorough-bred: czystej krwi

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mode: sposób, metoda

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device: sztuczka, fortel

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arbitrary: arbitralny, przypadkowy

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satiety: przesyt, sytość

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bias: skłonność, zamiłowanie; odchylenie

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incline to: skłaniać do

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undesignedly: nieumyślnie

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feast: ucztować

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springing: pojawiający się, wzrastający

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bosom: piersi

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suffer: pozwalać

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cleft: szczelina, pęknięcie

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transport: zachwyt, uniesienie

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thicket: gąszcz

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cavity: otwór

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to and fro: w tę i z powrotem

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friction: ocieranie, tarcie

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clammy: wilgotny, lepki

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composed: spokojny

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exhale: wydychać, wypuszczać

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kindling: rozpalony

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pollution: skażenie, zbezczeszczenie

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seduction: uwodzenie

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restore: przywracać, powracać

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artfully: umiejętnie

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sound: wybadać, wypytać

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virtuous: cnotliwy

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undissembled: otwarty, niezatajony

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subside: opadać, cichnąć

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allay: uśmierzyć; zaspokoić

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luscious: zmysłowy, pełen rozkoszy

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gay: radosny

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equipage: tu: zastawa

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waddle: iść kołysząc biodrami; człapać

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chid = chide: besztać, łajać

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enlightened: oświecony

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bundle: zawiniątko

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apparel: odzienie, strój

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rig (sb) out: wystroić (kogoś)

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coquet: próżny

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flutter: trzepotać

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lutestring: rodzaj jedwabnej tkaniny

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scour: wyczyścić

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spick and span: jak spod igły

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Brussels lace: brukselskie koronki

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braited = braided: pleciony

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diligence: pilność, pracowitość

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industry: pracowitość

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chapman: kupiec

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premises: siedziba, lokal

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surrender: poddawać się

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perishable: nietrwały

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commodity: towar

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acquit oneself well: dobrze się spisać

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untoward: nieoczekiwany; niestosowny

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tawdry: pretensjonalny; marnej jakości

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vanity: próżność

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stays: gorset

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glossy: lśniący

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auburn: kasztan (kolor)

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ruddy: rumiany

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pit: dołek

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disagreeable: nieprzyjemny

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languishing: tęskny (o spojrzeniu)

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discern: dostrzec, rozpoznać

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in request: poszukiwany

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sovereign: suwerenny; najwyższy

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endeavour: usiłować, starać się

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detract: ujmować, odejmować, odwracać

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excel (in): celować (w), wybijać się

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own: sądzić, mniemać

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singular: osobliwy

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suppress: stłumić

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gay: jaskrawy

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attire: ubiór, strój

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deck out: przystrajać

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sacrifice: ofiara, poświęcenie

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mere: czysty, zwykły

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under pretence of: pod pretekstem

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driblet: kapka, odrobina

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salute: pozdrawiać

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swallow: zaakceptować

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affronted: urażony

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ardour: żarliwość, zapał

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convey: przekazać

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threescore: kopa (sześćdziesiąt)

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cadaverous: trupi, blady

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hue: odcień, barwa

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goggle: wybałuszony

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strangled: uduszony

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tusk: kieł

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livid: siny

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Jake: tu: śmierdzący

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ghastliness: upiorność

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mock: kpiny, pośmiewisko

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staring: rzucający się w oczy

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deformity: zniekształcenie; szpetota

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with impunity: bezkarnie

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lavish: szafować (czymś), nie szczędzić

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wretch: biedaczka

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pitch: szczyt

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baulked of sth: pozbawiony czegoś

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wreak: dawać upust

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durst = dared

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conscientious: skrupulatny, sumienny

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benefactress: dobrodziejka

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purveyor: dostarczyciel

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doom: skazywać

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take a handle: tu: posłużyć się

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rusticity: prostota, chłopskość

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omit: pomijać

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jockeyship: podstęp

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look goats and monkeys at: patrzeć lubieżnie

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affright: strach

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reconduct: ponownie zaprowadzić

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at leisure: bez pośpiechu

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invincible: niezachwiany; niezwyciężony

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portentous: niezwykły

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daub: pokrywać

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indispose: usposabiać niechętnie

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confound: pomieszać, pogmatwać

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rank: warstwa, sfera, klasa

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be cast in the same mould: być ulepionym z tej samej gliny

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endeavour: usiłowanie, dążenie

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despair of sth: tracić nadzieję na coś

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compliance: uległość, ustępliwość, zgodność

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loquorice: śmierdzący alkoholem

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old goat: stary cap

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peremptory: nieodwołalny

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discretion: uznanie, osąd

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unrighteous: niesprawiedliwy; bezprawny

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hearken: słuchać

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procuress: stręczycielka

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remonstrance: skarga, protest

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green: niedoświadczony

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untamed: dziewiczy

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lust: pożądanie

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arm sb against: zbroić kogoś przeciw

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run riot: szaleć

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address: mowa, czułe słówka

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gossip: plotka

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exhaust: wyczerpać

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rhetoric: retoryka

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smitten: oczarowany, zachwycony

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chariot: powóz

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aversion: niechęć, awersja

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imminent: nieuchronny

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retire to: udać się do

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satyr: satyr (postać mitologiczna, przen. rozpustnik)

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peculiar to sb: typowy dla kogoś

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odious: odpychający, wstrętny

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confirm sb in: utwierdzać kogoś w

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ogle: wpatrywać się, spoglądać lubieżnie

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utmost: najwyższy

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bashfulness: płochliwość, wstydliwość

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commode: tu: odbywać toaletę

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pleady = plead: tłumaczyć się

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earnestly: poważnie, serio

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pray: proszę

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settee: kanapa

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petrified: osłupiały, skamieniały

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stupefaction: otępienie, osłupienie

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squat: przykucnąć

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preamble: wstęp

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disengage: uwolnić się, wyrwać się

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pestilential: nieznośny

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unresisting: niestawiający oporu

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flinch: wzdragać się

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emboldened: ośmielony

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sufferance: niechętna zgoda, tolerowanie

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endurance: wytrwałość

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incentive: zachęta

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dominion: władza, panowanie

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bridle: okiełznać, poskromić

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snort: prychać, parskać

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foam: pienić się, toczyć pianę

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petticoat: halka; spódnica

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obstinately: uparcie

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breeches: bryczesy (spodnie noszone w XVIII w.)

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indignation: wzburzenie, oburzenie

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pant: dyszeć

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effusion: wylew

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bid (bid; bid): proponować, oferować

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cully: naiwniak, frajer

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mock: udawany, fałszywy

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hobnail: ćwiek; gwóźdź

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dispose of sth: pozbywać się czegoś

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skim-milk: chude mleko (po zebraniu śmietany)

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volley: lawina, potok

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abuse: obelgi, wyzwiska

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minion: pupilek, ulubieniec

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incapable of: niezdolny do

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railing: pomstowanie

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folly: fanaberia, kaprys

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pensively: w zamyśleniu

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brim with: wypełniać się, przepełniać się

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villain: drań, łajdak

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bloom of youth: kwiat młodości

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mightily: ogromnie, znacznie

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make it up: załagodzić spór

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break loose from sb: uwolnić się od kogoś

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bounce into: wpaść, wbiec

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disheveled: potargany, w nieładzie

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tragedize: czynić tragicznym, dramatyzować

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persecutor: prześladowca

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intent: pochłonięty (czymś), skupiony (na czymś)

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courtesy: grzeczność, uprzejmość, kurtuazja

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consummate: dopełniać, spełniać

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resolute: stanowczy

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perceive: dostrzec, zauważyć

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mend: poprawiać się, naprawiać

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pit one’s brows: ściągać brwi

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ape: małpa (człekokształtna)

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deliver: uratować, wyzwolić

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hartshorn: woda amoniakalna, sole trzeźwiące

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persuasion: perswazja, przekonywanie

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prevail on sb: przekonywać kogoś

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dejected: przygnębiony

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apprehension: obawa

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ply with (sth): zasypywać (czymś)

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perplex: wprawiać w zakłopotanie

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fate: los

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distinguish: rozpoznawać

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conceive: poczuć

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agitation: niepokój, poruszenie

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thunder: pędzić z łoskotem

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dejection: przygnębienie

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re-inspirit: na nowo dodać otuchy

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reproach: wyrzut

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retort: ripostować, odpierać

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palpably: namacalnie, w oczywisty sposób

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torment (oneself): zadręczać (się)

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mere: zwykły

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fatigue: zmęczenie

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delirious: pełen majaków

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doze: drzemka

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reprieve: przynosić ulgę

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bawd: właścicielka domu publicznego, stręczycielka

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un-doer: niszczyciel, sprawca utraty reputacji

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ravisher: gwałciciel, porywacz

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conquer: przezwyciężyć

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reconciliation: pogodzenie

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suit: sprawa sądowa

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on account of: ze względu na

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drive: prowadzić

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contraband: nielegalny

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trade: handel

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inclination: skłonność

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tractable: uległy

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conformable: uległy, zgodny

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dispose (to): skłaniać (do)

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frolic: figle, igraszki

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gaiety: wesołość

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giddy: frywolny, niepoważny

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insomuch: do tego stopnia, że; o tyle

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cultivate: rozwijać, kształtować

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corrupt: psuć, skazić

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native: wrodzony, naturalny

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parity = purity: czystość

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inflammable: łatwopalny

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principal: prowodyr, główny sprawca

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dew: rosa

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vice: przywara

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range: przemieszczać się

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perusal: studiowanie, przejrzenie, zbadanie

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trinket: błyskotka, świecidełko

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fortnight: dwa tygodnie

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precaution: środek ostrożności

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lull: uśpić

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destiny: przeznaczenie

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preachment: kazanie

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domesticate: udomowić

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alas: niestety

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hitherto: jak dotąd

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tolerable: niezły, przyzwoity

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insight: wgląd

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itch: świąd, swędzenie

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florid: czerwony

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exert: wykorzystywać

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tincture: posmak; nalewka

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whet: zaostrzyć (apetyt)

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closet: gabinet

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rustling: szelest

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sash doors: przesuwane drzwi

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damask: adamaszkowy

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minutely: szczegółowo

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mother Abbess: matka przełożona, przeorysza

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brawny: muskularny, krzepki

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grenadier: grenadier

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moulded: umodelowany, odlany

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baulk: przeszkodzić

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droll: dziwaczny; ucieszny

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clumsy: niezdarny, niezgrabny

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flop down: klapnąć

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paramour: kochanek

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smack: klaps

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thrust (thrust; thrust): pchać

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scorn: pogarda

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confinement: uwięzienie

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sag down: opadać, zwisać

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navel-low: do wysokości pępka

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behold (beheld; beheld): ujrzeć

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flagging: obwisły

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contiguous: stykający się ze sobą, przylegający

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paw: obłapiać, macać

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confine: zamknąć, uwięzić

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mutton: baran

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toy with sth: bawić się czymś

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briskly: rześko, żwawo

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cant up: podciągnąć, wywrócić do góry

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greasy: tłusty; śliski

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provision: zaopatrzenie

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engross: pochłaniać

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sturdy: silny, krzepki, mocny

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stallion: ogier

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produce: wyciągać, wyjmować

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seat: siedzba, ośrodek

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flurried: poruszony, podniecony

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supreme: najwyższy

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spark: zalotnik

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brandish: potrząsać, wymachiwać

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ingulphed = ingulfed:  zatopiony

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rattle: postukiwać

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heave: pchnięcie

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panting: dyszenie

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intercept: powstrzymać

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respiration: oddech

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disposed: usposobiony

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discourse: mowa, rozmowa

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minute: szczegółowy, drobiazgowy, drobny

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palpitate: bić, kołatać

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slit: szczelina

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dissolve: rozpuszczać się, rozwiewać się

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dismount: zejść z, zsiąść z 

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derive from: czerpać z 

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altered: odmienny, zmieniony

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pious: pobożny

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auxiliaries: posiłki, urządzenia pomocnicze

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cordial: likier, kordiał

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pledge: wznosić toast

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plentiful: obfity

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dram: kieliszeczek, łyczek

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amorous: miłosny

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parley: pogawędka; pertraktacje

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effrontery: tupet; arogancja

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crest-fallen: zbity z tropu

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chaff: drażnić, droczyć sie

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swell (swelled; swollen): puchnąć

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texture: faktura

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capital: najważniejszy; największy

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uncapt = uncapped: odkryty

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shaft: drzewce; ostrze

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shrub: krzaczasty

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embrown: otaczać brązem

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dangle: zwisać

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exact: ściągać, przyciągać

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industrious: pracowity

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labour: pracować, czynić wysiłki

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retainer: członek świty

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subjection: podporządkowanie się

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maintenance: utrzymywanie; obsługa

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encounter: spotkanie

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ardently: żarliwie

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allay: rozwiać, rozproszyć

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rekindled: rozpalony na nowo

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pole: biegun; ośrodek zainteresowania

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vexation: udręka

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plowing with: tu: przeorany; zalany

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remedy: lekarstwo, remedium

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digitation: tu: dotykanie palcami, używanie palców

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recital: przedstawienie

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spectatress = spectatoress:  kobieta widz

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peal of laughter: salwa śmiechu

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ingenuous: otwarty, szczery

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without mincing: nie owijając w bawełnę, mówiąc bez ogródek

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framed: stworzony, obmyślony

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dimension: wymiar, rozmiar

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palpable: wyczuwalny, dotykalny

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solution: rozwianie, rozwiązanie

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outlive: przeżyć, żyć dłużej niż

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diversity: rozbieżność, rozmaitość

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unmerciful: bezlitosny

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artifice: sztuczka, podstęp

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undoubterly = undoubtedly:  niewątpliwie

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Genoes = Genoese: genewski

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immensely: ogromnie, niezmiernie

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humour: dogadzać; spełniać zachcianki

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inclination: skłonność

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caprice: kaprys

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ply: skłonność, tendencja

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accomplishment: osiągnięcie; zakończenie

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beckon: dać znak gestem, skinąć

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crevice: szczelina

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partition: przepierzenie

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apply: przykładać

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moulding: listwa; gzyms

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warp: wypaczyć się, wykrzywić się

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