evanescent

In the afternoon, several young girls of Marlot, former schoolfellows and acquaintances of Tess, called to see her, arriving in their best starched and ironed, as became visitors to a person who had made a transcendent conquest ( as they supposed), and sat round the room looking at her with great curiosity.
下午，有几个马洛特村的年轻姑娘，她们是苔丝以前的同学和熟人，都来看她，她们穿上了熨过、浆过最好的衣服，就像拜访一个取得了非凡胜利的人(她们是这样想的)一样，坐在房间里，好奇地看着她。（第十三章）