| A | B |
|---|
| receding | becoming more distant |
| disarming | removing or lessening suspicions or fears |
| prolonged | extended |
| imprudent | unwise |
| surmounted | overcame |
| unruffled | calm; not disturbed |
| invariably | always; without changing |
| diverting | intertaining |
| impulse | sudden desire to do something |
| protruding | sticking out |
| Purdey's | British manufacturer of hunting equipment |
| indolently | lazily |
| brier | tobacco pipe made from the root of a brier bush or tree |
| opaqueness | darkness (something opaque does not let light pass through) |
| Cossack | Ukrainians, famous for fierceness in battle |
| flushed his quarry | drove the animal he was hunting out of his hiding place |
| chateau | large country house |
| astrakhan | curly fur of very young lambs |
| amenities | comforts and conveniences |
| cosmopolite | knowledgeable citizen of the world |
| Crimea | peninsula in Ukraine near Black Sea |
| Caucasus | mountainous region between SE. Europe and W. Asia |
| prolonged | extended |
| debacle | overwhelming defeat |
| Monte Carlo | gambling resort in Monaco |
| Ganges | river in N. India & Bangladesh |
| condone | overlook an offense; excuse |
| scruples | feelings of doubt or guilt about a suggested action |
| lascars | East Indian sailors employed on European ships |
| knouters | person who beats criminals with a knout, a kind of leather whip |
| strike a tartar | get more than one bargained for (tartar=violent, unmanageable person) |
| Folies-Bergere | famous nightclub in Paris |
| solicitously | in a concerned manner |
| opiate | anything that tends to soothe or calm someone |
| Crepes Suzette | thin pancakes w/sweet sauce |
| Veuve Clicquot | brand of fine champagne |
| deplorable | very bad |
| au revoir | French for "goodbye" |
| rowels | small wheels w/spurs. worn on the boots of horseback riders |
| precariously | unsteadily; in an unstable manner |
| Malacca | state in Malaysia (SE Asia) |
| dug himself in in France | dug a hole for shelter from gunfire during World War I (1914-1918) |
| Madame Butterfly | famous Italian opera by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) |
| Marcus Aurelius | Roman Emperor-believed people should make themselves indifferent to pain & pleasure |
| repast | meal |
