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Paula on the Fawn1, and Dick on the Outlaw2, rode out from the Big House as nearly side by side as the Outlaw’s wicked perversity3 permitted. The conversation she permitted was fragmentary. With tiny ears laid back and teeth exposed, she would attempt to evade4 Dick’s restraint of rein5 and spur and win to a bite of Paula’s leg or the Fawn’s sleek6 flank, and with every defeat the pink flushed and faded in the whites of her eyes. Her restless head-tossing and pitching attempts to rear (thwarted by the martingale) never ceased, save when she pranced7 and sidled and tried to whirl.
“This is the last year of her,” Dick announced. “She’s indomitable. I’ve worked two years on her without the slightest improvement. She knows me, knows my ways, knows I am her master, knows when she has to give in, but is never satisfied. She nourishes the perennial8 hope that some time she’ll catch me napping, and for fear she’ll miss that time she never lets any time go by.”
“And some time she may catch you,” Paula said.
“That’s why I’m giving her up. It isn’t exactly a strain on me, but soon or late she’s bound to get me if there’s anything in the law of probability. It may be a million-to-one shot, but heaven alone knows where in the series of the million that fatal one is going to pop up.”
“You’re a wonder, Red Cloud,” Paula smiled.
“Why?”
“You think in statistics and percentages, averages and exceptions. I wonder, when we first met, what particular formula you measured me up by.”
“I’ll be darned if I did,” he laughed back. “There was where all signs failed. I didn’t have a
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n.未满周岁的小鹿;v.巴结,奉承 | |
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crunching
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proximity
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survivors
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cartridges
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n.吸( puff的名词复数 );(烟斗或香烟的)一吸;一缕(烟、蒸汽等);(呼吸或风的)呼v.使喷出( puff的第三人称单数 );喷着汽(或烟)移动;吹嘘;吹捧 | |
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forefinger
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mighty
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sustenance
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