It was the big reveal after two years of suspense, now with a story that merited Walter Pater's hyperbole.

消失了两年后，现在她的故事很能呼应沃尔特‧佩特对其夸张的叙述。

Walter Pater’s 1873 book, The Renaissance, was key.

沃尔特·佩特 (Walter Pater) 1873 年的著作《文艺复兴》(The Renaissance) 是关键。

It was the big reveal after 2 years of suspense, now with a story that merited Walter Pater’s hyperbole.

经过 2 年的悬念，这是一个重大的揭露，现在有了一个值得沃尔特佩特夸张的故事。

He formed a platonic friendship with a lady some years older than himself, who lived in Kensington Square; and nearly every afternoon he drank tea with her by the light of shaded candles, and talked of George Meredith and Walter Pater.

他与住在肯辛顿广场的一位比他大几岁的女士建立了柏拉图式的友谊。几乎每天下午，他都在遮蔽的烛光下和她喝茶，谈论乔治·梅雷迪思和沃尔特·佩特。

His boyhood had been saturated with Ruskin, and he had read all the latest books: John Addington Symonds, Vernon Lee's " Euphorion, " the essays of P. G. Hamerton, and a wonderful new volume called " The Renaissance" by Walter Pater.

他的童年充满了罗斯金的思想，他读了所有最新的书：约翰·阿丁顿·西蒙兹、弗农·李的《幸福感》、P. G. 哈默顿的散文，以及沃尔特·佩特的一本精彩的新书《文艺复兴》。