Chapter 12

In raptures 喜出望外地

raptures 极度喜悦

I haven’t known him long indeed, but I am much better acquainted with him, than I am with any other creature in the world.

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy—— it is disposition alone.

Attach sb more to one’s own opinion

Imprudent不明智的

establishment 家族

A lock of hair 一缕头发

unison 一致 协调

sagacity 精明  精明的判断

and thus amidst the various endeavours of different people to quit the topic, it fell to the ground.