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CHAPTER XV
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During this summer of 1846, while her literary hopes were waning1, an anxiety of another kind was increasing. Her father's eyesight had become seriously impaired2 by the progress of the cataract3 which was forming. He was nearly blind. He could grope his way about, and recognise the figures of those he knew well, when they were placed against a strong light; but he could no longer see to read; and thus his eager appetite for knowledge and information of all kinds was severely4 balked5. He continued to preach. I have heard that he was led up into the pulpit, and that his sermons were never so effective as when he stood there, a grey sightless old man, his blind eyes looking out straight before him, while the words that came from his lips had all the vigour6 and force of his best days. Another fact has been mentioned to me, curious as showing the accurateness of his sensation of time. His sermons had always lasted exactly half an hour. With the clock right before him, and with his ready flow of words, this had been no difficult matter as long as he could see. But it was the same when he was blind; as the minute-hand came to the point, marking the expiration7 of the thirty minutes, he concluded his sermon.
Under his great sorrow he was always patient. As in times of far greater affliction, he enforced a quiet endurance of his woe8 upon himself. But so many interests were quenched9 by this blindness that he was driven inwards, and must have dwelt much on what was painful and distressing10 in regard to his only son. No wonder that his spirits gave way, and were
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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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描绘,描画( depict的现在分词 ); 描述 | |
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adj.精美的;敏锐的;剧烈的,感觉强烈的 | |
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mazed
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迷惘的,困惑的 | |
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dependence
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conjecture
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inquiries
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testimony
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交出,让给( relinquish的过去式和过去分词 ); 放弃 | |
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housekeeper
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accurately
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