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VI IN WHICH I AM UNHAPPY AND MEET A TALL WOMAN IN THE WOOD
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When the vines dropped back from Ravenutzi’s hand upon the wall of boughs1 through which the Ward2 and her Keepers passed, it was as if the step that carried them out of sight of the Outliers had also carried them out of knowledge. Not an eye that any other eye could discover, nor any inquiring word strayed upon their vanished trail. In the three days before they returned to the Meet, or it was proper to mention them, they would have visited the King’s Desire, and Zirriloë would be informed of everything pertinent4 to that connection.
During these three days no Outlier concerned himself with their whereabouts lest he should be thought to have some concern about the Treasure. With the exception of 115Noche, I believe no Outlier had even so much as curiosity about it. It had been so long since any man had seen it, that until Noche’s account of what the cache contained began to be current, I think they had not any clear idea what the Treasure might consist in. It was something that the Far-Folk wanted and the Outliers did not mean they should get. The struggle kept alive in them tribal5 integrity and the relish6 for supremacy7.
The practice of not speaking of the Treasure during the three days’ absence of the Ward, had taken on a rigidity8 of custom which Herman and I did not feel ourselves bound to observe. We could talk of the Treasure and of Zirriloë, and we did that same morning.
When the shadows were gathered close under the forest border, and even to our accustomed eyes there was no sign of the Outliers, other than the subdued9 sense of gladsome life spread on the pleasant air, I found a place I knew. There the creek10 went close about the roots of the pine between shallow sandy shoals, and there Herman came to talk to me of the Love-Left Ward. As he sat there at my feet pitching stones into the shallows, that
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大树枝( bough的名词复数 ) | |
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obliteration
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contingency
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rubies
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红宝石( ruby的名词复数 ); 红宝石色,深红色 | |
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superstition
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n.血管,静脉;叶脉,纹理;情绪;vt.使成脉络 | |
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exemption
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momentary
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curiously
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repose
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steadily
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afterward
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broach
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wardship
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监护,保护 | |
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fully
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Ford
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mortification
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blots
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污渍( blot的名词复数 ); 墨水渍; 错事; 污点 | |
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discreet
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receding
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scents
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twig
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rustling
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tributary
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lashes
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helping
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exhausted
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inquiry
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concealment
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