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II I MEET THE OUTLIERS IN THE WOOD AND HERMAN COMES TO FIND ME
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When Herman got my letter concerning the dark man under the bay tree, he was wholly at loss what to make of it. He was quite habituated to my method of making believe to be a story before writing it, and was always willing to play up to his part as soon as he learned what that was, but in this case I had neglected to tell him. While he was reading the letter over, it occurred to him the whole thing might be merely a childish pique2 because he had scoffed3 at my wood people in the first place, and was rather annoyed at it.
But as often as he went back to the letter he found a note of conviction in it—for I had written it immediately after the adventure—that overrode5 both of these interpretations6.
25After that he was divided between the fear that I really had been overworking and a period of mild hallucination had set in, or the possibility that I could have met some sort of wild person in the forest who might do me an injury. The most disturbing thing in the letter was the declaration that I meant to go back as soon as I could and find out all about the woodlander. The result of all this was that after having written me a separate letter based on each one of these beliefs, and having destroyed it, Herman left the University Friday morning and came down to find out, if possible, what really had occurred.
He arrived on the stage that reaches Fairshore at half-past one, and as he had come directly from his lecture room, he had first to have lunch and change to his out-of-door clothes. This made it the middle of the afternoon before he reached the cottage. As soon as he had a glimpse of it, he experienced a sinking of the heart that warned him that I was not there. However, he went through the formality of knocking at the front door before going round to see if I had left the key, as I did for short absences, or had taken it to the Inn as when I meant to be away 26several days. He found the key in the accustomed place, and something more alarming. Inside the screened porch at the back were the three little bottles of milk which the milkman had left there each evening that I had been away. So I had been gone three days!
The first thing was to make sure that I was not at Mira Monte or at Idlewild, where I went sometimes as the mood demanded. He was very cautious about making
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嘲笑,嘲弄( scoff的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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pricking
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twig
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amazement
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boughs
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大树枝( bough的名词复数 ) | |
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adorned
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cedar
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impersonality
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comely
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reassure
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thongs
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chuckling
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抛( sling的第三人称单数 ); 吊挂; 遣送; 押往 | |
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ruffle
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vessel
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glimmer
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gathering
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puffing
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v.使喷出( puff的现在分词 );喷着汽(或烟)移动;吹嘘;吹捧 | |
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