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sotto voice – in a low voice (Italian)

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French windows – large windows that serve as doors to the balcony or to the garden

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eau sucree – sugar water (French)

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go to the dogs – be ruined

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trellis-work – wooden structures for supporting climbing plants

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Punch – a grotesque ugly hump-backed figure in a puppet-show

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Vandals – a Germanic tribe which invaded Gaul, Spain and North Africa in the 4th–5th centuries AD

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Popery – Roman Catholicism

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Creole – a person of mixed European and African origin

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debility – weakness

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i n lieu of – instead of

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Torquay – a beautiful town on the seacoast in the historic county of Devon

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Devonshire – Devon, a historic county of England to the east of Cornwall and to the west of Dorset and Som-erset

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chaise – a horse carriage used for driving for pleasure

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Islington – an inner borough of London, north of the City of London; the name Iseldone was first mentioned in Domesday Book in 1086.

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Aneurism – widening of artery, a serious and even fatal dis-ease

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Lyons – a large industrial city in east-central France, found-ed as a Roman military colony in 43 BC

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Leicester Square – a square in central London with theatres, cinemas and restaurants in it

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Chancery Lane – a street in central London where courts and lawyers’ offices are located

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metaphysical – based on speculative philosophy or abstract reasoning

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Hyde Park – the park in central London, in the borough of Westminster to the west of Mayfair

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stratagem – a trick to deceive smb

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Gray Inn’s Road – a street between the City of London and Westminster

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Derby – a city on the River Derwent in the historic county of Derbyshire, founded in the 9th century by the Danes

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Grimsby – a town and port in the historic county of Lin-colnshire in the east of England

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Lincolnshire – a county in eastern England along the North Sea coast

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Norfolk – a county in eastern England, with Suffolk in the south, the North Sea in the northeast and Lincolnshire in the west

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without rhyme or reason – nonsensical

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vestry – in Anglican Church, a part of church where meet-ings to discuss parish business are held

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Arabia – a desert region on the peninsular bounded by the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf

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Palestine – a region with rich history in the eastern Mediter-ranean known as the Holy Land

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the Queen’s English – the English language spoken in Great Britain

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Bath – a city and health resort on the River Avon in the historic county of Somerset; Bath is known for its nature and elegant architecture.

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Fulham – an inner borough of London to the north of the River Thames and to the west of Chelsea, with a lot of 19th century residential houses

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the Crystal Palace – a giant glass exhibition hall in Hyde Park

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Lucrezia Borgia – an opera by Gaetano Donizetti; a repre-sentative of the Borgia family, daughter of Pope Alexander VI and sister of Cesare Borgia, Lucrezia Borgia (1480–1519) par-ticipated in their crimes.

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Donizetti – Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848), a famous Ital-ian opera composer