Vocabulary

cozen - обманывать, вовлекать

"I cozened him into it, playing upon his fears..."

brimstone - сера

"...brimstone-stinking emptiness full of lost souls like myself."

arrogance - высокомерие, заносчивость

"He was a biddable lad with none of his mother's arrogance..."

timidity - робость

"Your father's infected you with his timidity."

presume - осмелиться

"She looked at her son as a woman might look at a stranger who had presumed to touch her arm."

plump - ставить на что-то

latter - последний (из двух)

"When I consider the last eight years of my life I plump for the latter"

warily - осторожно

"She looked at me warily."

tipsily - подвыпив

"His mother rose tipsily..."

grasp - схватить

"She turned to Henry, grasped his arm, and spilled wine on his wrist."

weakling - слабак, неженка

"She expressed the opinion that feelings, like fairness, were also the last resort for weaklings."

constricted - стеснённый

ill-tempered - сварливый

"Coming through her thus constricted throat, those snores sounded like the growling of an old-tempered dog."

burlap - джутовый

"Go into the shed and fetch a burlap sack."

subside - затихать

"She subsided. Henry stirred and groaned."