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CHAPTER XX THE DEAD RETURN
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THAT night Esteban made his lonely camp beside a jungle trail that wound through the dry wash of an old river bed, along which a tiny rivulet1 still trickled2, affording the Spaniard the water which he craved4.
The obsession5 which possessed6 him that he was in truth Tarzan of the Apes, imparted to him a false courage, so that he could camp alone upon the ground without recourse to artificial protection of any kind, and fortune had favored him in this respect in that it had sent no prowling beasts of prey7 to find him upon those occasions that he had dared too much. During the period that Flora8 Hawkes had been with him he had built shelters for her, but now that he had deserted9 her and was again alone, he could not, in the rôle that he had assumed, consider so effeminate an act as the building of even a thorn boma for protection during the darkness of the night.
He did, however, build a fire, for he had made a kill and had not yet reached a point of primitive10 savagery12 which permitted him even to imagine that he enjoyed raw meat.
Having devoured14 what meat he wanted and filled himself at the little rivulet, Esteban came back and squatted15 before his fire, where he drew the
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n.小溪,小河 | |
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vi.淌,滴,流出,慢慢移动,逐渐消散 | |
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渴望,热望( crave的过去式 ); 恳求,请求 | |
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devoured
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growth; economy; management; and customer satisfaction 增长 | |
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apparition
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faltering
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pointed
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tawny
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fugitive
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avenge
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gateway
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remains
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apparently
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bind
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engrossed
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persistently
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plunged
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stunned
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deception
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meditation
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interpretation
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jaws
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bloody
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leopard
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scowled
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slay
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corpse
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loyalty
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safari
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