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The Priestly Prerogative
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This is the story of a man who did not appreciate his wife; also, of a woman who did him too great an honor when she gave herself to him. Incidentally, it concerns a Jesuit priest who had never been known to lie. He was an appurtenance, and a very necessary one, to the Yukon country; but the presence of the other two was merely accidental. They were specimens1 of the many strange waifs which ride the breast of a gold rush or come tailing along behind.
Edwin Bentham and Grace Bentham were waifs; they were also tailing along behind, for the Klondike rush of '97 had long since swept down the great river and subsided3 into the famine-stricken city of Dawson. When the Yukon shut up shop and went to sleep under a three-foot ice-sheet, this peripatetic4 couple found themselves at the Five Finger Rapids, with the City of Gold still a journey of many sleeps to the north.
Many cattle had been butchered at this place in the fall of the year, and the offal made a goodly heap. The three fellow-voyagers of Edwin Bentham and wife gazed upon this deposit, did a little mental arithmetic, caught a certain glimpse of a bonanza5, and decided6 to remain. And all winter they sold sacks of bones and frozen hides to the famished7 dog-teams. It was a modest price they asked, a dollar a pound, just as it came. Six months later, when the sun came back and the Yukon awoke, they buckled8 on their heavy moneybelts and journeyed back to the Southland, where they yet live and lie mightily9 about the Klondike they never saw.
But Edwin Bentham—he was an indolent fellow, and had he not been possessed10 of a wife, would have gladly joined issued in the dog-meat
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vexed
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adj.争论不休的;(指问题等)棘手的;争论不休的问题;烦恼的v.使烦恼( vex的过去式和过去分词 );使苦恼;使生气;详细讨论 | |
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penance
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robin
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n.知更鸟,红襟鸟 | |
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eddy
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n.漩涡,涡流 | |
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