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and slippers of black velvet. Her bare insteps were as white as her young shoulders. The party seemed to have degenerated into a lot of sober eyes staring at her with nasty compassion from every corner, every cushion and ashtray, and even from the hills of the spring night framed in the open french window. Mrs. Carr, her hostess, repeated what a pity it was that Philip could not come or rather that Flora could not have induced

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脚蹬一双黑丝绒拖鞋。她裸露着的脚背和她充满青春活力的肩膀一样白皙。整个会场似乎蜕变出一道道冷静的目光，带着不怀好意的同情，从每个角落、每个坐垫和每个烟灰缸投向她，就连笼罩于春天夜色之中的群山也透过敞开的法式落地窗投来这样的目光。女主人卡尔夫人反复唠叨道，菲利普没来真是一大遗憾，或者说弗洛拉没能把他引诱来是一大遗憾。