Unit 1
a pretty woman with features associated with being English
English Rose
Belfry
bell tower
cortex
a man’s male servant
valet
increasing in loudness / intensity
a man’s male servant
getting dressed up to look one's best
dolling
with severe sadness
Melancholic
calm, submissive, accepting control
docile
a person’s inherent qualities / nature
disposition
evil spirits or demons
fiends
stare - with a kind of suggestion of stupidity or rudeness
gawp
a drug derived from Opium (dulls the senses)
Opiate
when a dog shows slavish attention to someone
fawns
a person from an alien culture, believed to be uncivilised, violent, rude
barbarian
Suddenly moves back in fear /shock
recoils
a picture of her in a small ornamental case, typically worn around the neck.
Likeness in a locket
evil
malign
setter
easily influenced / pliable / willing to bend
malleable
the state of being in someone’s power
thrall
a violent, gory book, popular in Victorian England -known for second rate writing and melodramatic plots
penny dreadful
The property next door to the asylum. In the novel, Carfax is located in Purfleet, just north of central London.
Carfax Abbey
an expression used when someone was going to dictate a letter for typing
take a letter
unsettled / confused
disconcerted
the key seems to be teasing /mocking him because he can’t use it
ironic taunting