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In
fulfilment
of
his
promise,
the
Major
afterwards
called
on
Mr
Dombey;
and
Mr
Dombey,
having
referred
to
the
army
list,
afterwards
called
on
the
Major.
Then
the
Major
called
at
Mr
Dombey's
house
in
town;
and
came
down
again,
in
the
same
coach
as
Mr
Dombey.
In
short,
Mr
Dombey
and
the
Major
got
on
uncommonly
well
together,
and
uncommonly
fast:
and
Mr
Dombey
observed
of
the
Major,
to
his
sister,
that
besides
being
quite
a
military
man
he
was
really
something
more,
as
he
had
a
very
admirable
idea
of
the
importance
of
things
unconnected
with
his
own
profession.
少校履行诺言，后来去拜访了董贝先生；董贝先生查阅了军人名册之后，后来也去拜访了少校。然后少校在董贝先生城里的公馆中拜访了他；然后他和董贝先生乘坐着同一辆马车又到布赖顿来。总之，董贝先生与少校相处得异乎寻常地融洽，关系进展得异乎寻常地迅速。董贝先生向他的妹妹谈起少校的时候，说，他不仅是一位真正的军人，而且在他身上还有其他一些东西，因为他对跟他的职业毫无关系的事物，也令人惊叹地了解它们的重要性。
At
length
Mr
Dombey,
bringing
down
Miss
Tox
and
Mrs
Chick
to
see
the
children,
and
finding
the
Major
again
at
Brighton,
invited
him
to
dinner
at
the
Bedford,
and
complimented
Miss
Tox
highly,
beforehand,
on
her
neighbour
and
acquaintance.
终于，当董贝先生领着托克斯小姐与奇克夫人到布赖顿来看孩子们，并看到少校也在这里的时候，他就邀请他到贝德福德旅馆来吃晚饭，事前还向托克斯小姐极力恭维她有这样一位邻居与熟人。
Notwithstanding
the
palpitation
of
the
heart
which
these
allusions
occasioned
her,
they
were
anything
but
disagreeable
to
Miss
Tox,
as
they
enabled
her
to
be
extremely
interesting,
and
to
manifest
an
occasional
incoherence
and
distraction
which
she
was
not
at
all
unwilling
to
display.
The
Major
gave
her
abundant
opportunities
of
exhibiting
this
emotion:
being
profuse
in
his
complaints,
at
dinner,
of
her
desertion
of
him
and
Princess's
Place:
and
as
he
appeared
to
derive
great
enjoyment
from
making
them,
they
all
got
on
very
well.
尽管这些暗示使托克斯小姐心房怦怦跳动，但她听起来决不是不愉快的，因为它们使她变得格外有趣，有时使她显得心意烦乱，神志不定，这是她完全不愿意表露出来的。少校给了她很多机会来展现这种情绪，他在晚饭中间不断埋怨她把他和公主广场抛弃了。由于他讲这些话看来是为了取得极大的乐趣，所以他们全都相处得很融洽。
None
the
worse
on
account
of
the
Major
taking
charge
of
the
whole
conversation,
and
showing
as
great
an
appetite
in
that
respect
as
in
regard
of
the
various
dainties
on
the
table,
among
which
he
may
be
almost
said
to
have
wallowed:
greatly
to
the
aggravation
of
his
inflammatory
tendencies.
Mr
Dombey's
habitual
silence
and
reserve
yielding
readily
to
this
usurpation,
the
Major
felt
that
he
was
coming
out
and
shining:
and
in
the
flow
of
spirits
thus
engendered,
rang
such
an
infinite
number
of
new
changes
on
his
own
name
that
he
quite
astonished
himself.
In
a
word,
they
were
all
very
well
pleased.
The
Major
was
considered
to
possess
an
inexhaustible
fund
of
conversation;
and
when
he
took
a
late
farewell,
after
a
long
rubber,
Mr
Dombey
again
complimented
the
blushing
Miss
Tox
on
her
neighbour
and
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