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CHAPTER XI THE CATHEDRAL
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The crowd could not recover from its stupefaction. It sat and waited. It had heard through me of the Three Eyes, of their significance as a message, a preliminary illustration, something like the title or picture-poster of the coming spectacle. It remembered Edith Cavell's eyes, Philippe Dorgeroux's eyes, Bérangère's eyes, all those eyes which I had seen again afterwards; and it sat as though cramped1 in obstinate2 silence, as though it feared lest a word or a movement should scare away the invisible god who lay hidden within the wall. It was now filled with absolute certainty. This first proof of my sincerity3 and perspicacity4 was enough; there was not a single unbeliever left. The spectators stepped straight into regions which I had reached only by painful stages. Not a shadow of protest impaired5 their sensibility. Not a doubt interfered6 with their faith. Really, I saw around me nothing but serious attention, restrained enthusiasm, suppressed exaltation.
And all this suddenly found vent7 in an immense shout that rose to the skies. Before us, on the screen which had but now been empty and bare as a stretch of sand, there had come into being, spontaneously, in a flash, hundreds and thousands of men, swarming8 in unspeakable confusion.
It was obviously the suddenness and complexity9 of the sight which so profoundly stirred the crowd. The sudden emergence10 of life innumerable out of nothingness convulsed it like an electric shock. In front of it, where there had been nothing, there now
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密集( swarm的过去式和过去分词 ); 云集; 成群地移动; 蜜蜂或其他飞行昆虫成群地飞来飞去 | |
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disorder
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edifice
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possessed
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hoax
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evocation
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transformation
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gnawing
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hymn
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