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CHAPTER I—IN THE OLD CITY OF ROCHESTER
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Strictly speaking, there were only six Poor Travellers; but, being a Traveller myself, though an idle one, and being withal as poor as I hope to be, I brought the number up to seven. This word of explanation is due at once, for what says the inscription1 over the quaint2 old door?
by his Will, dated 22 Aug. 1579,
founded this Charity
for Six poor Travellers,
and Fourpence each.
It was in the ancient little city of Rochester in Kent, of all the good days in the year upon a Christmas-eve, that I stood reading this inscription over the quaint old door in question. I had been wandering about the neighbouring Cathedral, and had seen the tomb of Richard Watts, with the effigy8 of worthy9 Master Richard starting out of it like a ship’s figure-head; and I had felt that I could do no less, as I gave the Verger his fee, than inquire the way to Watts’s Charity. The way being very short and very plain, I had come prosperously to the inscription and the quaint old door.
“Now,” said I to myself, as I looked at the knocker, “I know I am not a Proctor; I wonder whether I am a Rogue5!”
Upon the whole, though Conscience reproduced two or three pretty faces which might have had smaller attraction for a moral Goliath than they had had for me, who am but a Tom Thumb in that way, I came to the conclusion that I was not a Rogue. So, beginning to regard the establishment as in some sort my property, bequeathed to me and
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mighty
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器具,用具,器皿( utensil的名词复数 ); 器物 | |
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steward
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commendable
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niggardly
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disparagement
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oyster
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orator
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sleet
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milestones
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apprehensions
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descry
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bower
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constrained
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superstition
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fraught
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earthenware
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n.土器,陶器 | |
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pitcher
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n.(有嘴和柄的)大水罐;(棒球)投手 | |
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suffocated
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(使某人)窒息而死( suffocate的过去式和过去分词 ); (将某人)闷死; 让人感觉闷热; 憋气 | |
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untold
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strings
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poker
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hearth
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diffusing
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extraordinarily
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previously
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combustion
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prodigality
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