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Obviously, Ogilvie was trying to fawn on the Duke. He intended to hurt the arrogant Duchess with the Duke’s privacy. “ you went to Linday’s Place in Irish Bayou early last night. You drove your costly Jaguar and took a lady friend with you, if you don’t mind I may call her in this way.” Linday’s Place : a gambling nightclub Irish bayou : a commercial section of French quarter in the centre of New Orleans, characterized with many hotels, bars, nightclubs and immigrants from southern Italy and Ireland. fancy adj. : unusual, extraordinary, costly. Lady friend:此处是指公爵的情妇，是一种委婉语 fussy adj. : exacting especially about details, picky. Bayou, New Orleans Bayou is the term used mainly in Louisiana and Mississippi to describe a swampy, slowly moving or stationary body of water that was once part of a lake, river, or gulf. Bayou is not originally a French word. It was the Choctaw 乔克托族 Indians, who showed the French around when they began to arrive in what they called Louisiana early in the eighteenth century. Jaguar is a brand of British luxury car made by Jaguar Cars Limited owned by the Ford Motor Company with headquarters at Browns Lane, Coventry, England which was founded as SS Cars Ltd in 1922 changing its name to Jaguar in 1945. The Jaguar made between 1961 and 1974 is E-type which revolutionized sports car design, with performance, handling and looks ahead of its time. “the way I hear it, you won a hundred at the tables, then lost it at the bar. You were into a second hundred — with a real swinging party —when your wife here got there in a taxi.” “Well, this is what I heard — you won a hundred dollars at the gambling table, then you spent it at the bar. When you were going to spend another hundred dollars to entertain a group of merry fellows who were really up-to-date in merry mess, your wife came to you by a taxi.” smug adj. : looking or feeling too pleased about sth. you have done or achieved 沾沾自喜，自鸣得意的 swinging adj