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CHAP: XV. JACK SLAPS BACK
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Chapter follows chapter, and nothing doing. But man is a thought-adventurer, and his falls into the Charybdis of ointment1, and his shipwrecks2 on the rocks of ages, and his kisses across chasms3, and his silhouette4 on a minaret5: surely these are as thrilling as most things.
To be brief, there was a Harriet, a Kangaroo, a Jack6 and a Jaz and a Vicky, let alone a number of mere7 Australians. But you know as well as I do that Harriet is quite happy rubbing her hair with hair-wash and brushing it over her forehead in the sun and looking at the threads of gold and gun-metal, and the few threads, alas8, of silver and tin, with admiration9. And Kangaroo has just got a very serious brief, with thousands and thousands of pounds at stake in it. Of course he is fully10 occupied keeping them at stake, till some of them wander into his pocket. And Jack and Vicky have gone down to her father’s for the week-end, and he’s out fishing, and has already landed a rock-cod, a leather-jacket, a large schnapper, a rainbow-fish, seven black-fish, and a cuttle fish. So what’s wrong with him? While she is trotting11 over on a pony12 to have a look at an old sweetheart who is much too young to be neglected. And Jaz is arguing with a man about the freight-rates. And all the
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ointment
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n.药膏,油膏,软膏 | |
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海难,船只失事( shipwreck的名词复数 ); 沉船 | |
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ass
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vengeance
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caress
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