10 translation practice.ppt

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2、s narrow hollow temples,and under his soft thatch of silver hair,a register of most of the scandals and mysteries that had smouldered under the unruffled surface of New York society within the last fifty years.So far indeed did his information extend,and so acutely retentive was his memory,that he w

3、as supposed to be the only man who could have told you who Julius Beaufort,the banker,really was,and what had become of handsome Bob Spicer,old Mrs.Manson Mingotts father,who had disappeared so mysteriously(with a large sum of trust money)less than a year after his marriage,on the very day that a beautiful Spanish dancer who had been delighting thronged audiences in the old Opera-house on the Battery had taken ship for Cuba.(388 From Edith Wharton,The Age of Innocence)