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CHAPTER XIV. The Lady of the Mantilla
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Since that first night I had never clapped eyes on Sandy. He had gone clean out of the world, and Blenkiron and I waited anxiously for a word of news. Our own business was in good trim, for we were presently going east towards Mesopotamia, but unless we learned more about Greenmantle our journey would be a grotesque1 failure. And learn about Greenmantle we could not, for nobody by word or deed suggested his existence, and it was impossible of course for us to ask questions. Our only hope was Sandy, for what we wanted to know was the prophet’s whereabouts and his plans. I suggested to Blenkiron that we might do more to cultivate Frau von Einem, but he shut his jaw2 like a rat-trap.
“There’s nothing doing for us in that quarter,” he said. “That’s the most dangerous woman on earth; and if she got any kind of notion that we were wise about her pet schemes I reckon you and I would very soon be in the Bosporus.”
This was all very well; but what was going to happen if the two of us were bundled off to Baghdad with instructions to wash away the British? Our time was getting pretty short, and I doubted if we could spin out more than three days more in Constantinople. I felt just as I had felt with Stumm that last night when I was about to be packed off to Cairo and saw no way of avoiding it. Even Blenkiron was getting anxious. He played Patience incessantly3, and was disinclined to talk. I tried to find out something from the servants, but they either knew nothing or wouldn’t speak—the former, I think. I kept my eyes lifting, too, as I walked about the streets, but there was no sign anywhere of the skin coats or the weird4 stringed instruments. The whole Company of the Rosy5 Hours seemed to have melted into the air, and I began to wonder if they had ever existed.
Anxiety made me restless, and restlessness made me want exercise. It was no good walking about the city. The weather had become foul6 again, and I was sick of the smells and the squalor and the flea-bitten crowds. So Blenkiron and I got horses, Turkish
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adj.怪诞的,丑陋的;n.怪诞的图案,怪人(物) | |
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ad.不停地 | |
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cultivation
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深沟,地沟( trench的名词复数 ); 战壕 | |
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sentries
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哨兵,步兵( sentry的名词复数 ) | |
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twilight
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villas
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别墅,公馆( villa的名词复数 ); (城郊)住宅 | |
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v.吹送,飘送,(使)浮动( waft的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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peculiar
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adj.古怪的,异常的;特殊的,特有的 | |
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n.大风,强风,一阵闹声(尤指笑声等) | |
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v.使麻木,使麻痹( numb的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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capering
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长期受苦( languish的过去式和过去分词 ); 受折磨; 变得(越来越)衰弱; 因渴望而变得憔悴或闷闷不乐 | |
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n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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raving
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adj.说胡话的;疯狂的,怒吼的;非常漂亮的;令人醉心[痴心]的v.胡言乱语(rave的现在分词)n.胡话;疯话adv.胡言乱语地;疯狂地 | |
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n.探查法v.以鼻吸气,嗅,闻( sniff的现在分词 );抽鼻子(尤指哭泣、患感冒等时出声地用鼻子吸气);抱怨,不以为然地说 | |
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bog
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gravel
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tangled
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adj. 纠缠的,紊乱的 动词tangle的过去式和过去分词 | |
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vt.使(船)搁浅,使(某人)困于(某地) | |
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strands
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n.(线、绳、金属线、毛发等的)股( strand的名词复数 );缕;海洋、湖或河的)岸;(观点、计划、故事等的)部份v.使滞留,使搁浅( strand的第三人称单数 ) | |
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路障,障碍物( barricade的名词复数 ) | |
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muffled
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adj.(声音)被隔的;听不太清的;(衣服)裹严的;蒙住的v.压抑,捂住( muffle的过去式和过去分词 );用厚厚的衣帽包着(自己) | |
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consternation
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hectic
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rattled
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慌乱的,恼火的 | |
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chauffeur
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limousine
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n.豪华轿车 | |
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v.潜伏,偷偷摸摸地走动,鬼鬼祟祟地活动( skulk的现在分词 ) | |
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trespassing
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scent
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scents
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connoisseur
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glamour
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