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Volume One--Chapter Three. Entry into the World.
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Edwin came steeply out of the cinder-strewn back streets by Woodisun Bank (hill) into Duck Square, nearly at the junction1 of Trafalgar Road and Wedgwood Street. A few yards down Woodisun Bank, cocks and hens were scurrying2, with necks horizontal, from all quarters, and were even flying, to the call of a little old woman who threw grain from the top step of her porch. On the level of the narrow pavement stood an immense constable3, clad in white trousers, with a gun under his arm for the killing4 of mad dogs; he was talking to the woman, and their two heads were exactly at the same height. On a pair of small double gates near the old woman’s cottage were painted the words, “Steam Printing Works. No admittance except on business.” And from as far as Duck Square could be heard the puff-puff which proved the use of steam in this works to which idlers and mere5 pleasure-seekers were forbidden access.
Duck Square was one of the oldest, if the least imposing6, of all the public places in Bursley. It had no traffic across it, being only a sloping rectangle, like a vacant lot, with Trafalgar Road and Wedgwood Street for its exterior7 sides, and no outlet8 on its inner sides. The buildings on those inner sides were low and humble9 and, as it were, withdrawn10 from the world, the chief of them being the ancient Duck Inn, where the hand-bell ringers used to meet. But Duck Square looked out upon the very birth of Trafalgar Road, that wide, straight thoroughfare, whose name dates it, which had been invented, in the lifetime of a few then living, to unite Bursley with Hanbridge. It also looked out upon the birth of several old pack-horse roads which Trafalgar Road had
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n.连接,接合;交叉点,接合处,枢纽站 | |
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v.急匆匆地走( scurry的现在分词 ) | |
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chapel
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provincial
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