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CHAPTER X
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Michael left the Makambo as he had come on board, through a port-hole. Likewise, the affair occurred at night, and it was Kwaque’s hands that received him. It had been quick work, and daring, in the dark of early evening. From the boat-deck, with a bowline under Kwaque’s arms and a turn of the rope around a pin, Dag Daughtry had lowered his leprous servitor into the waiting launch.
On his way below, he encountered Captain Duncan, who saw fit to warn him:
“Yes, sir,” the steward agreed. “An’ I’m keepin’ him tight in my room to make safe. Want to see him, sir?”
The very frankness of the invitation made the captain suspicious, and the thought flashed through his mind that perhaps Killeny Boy was already hidden ashore2 somewhere by the dog-stealing steward.
“Yes, indeed I’d like to say how-do-you-do to him,” Captain Duncan answered.
And his was genuine surprise, on entering the steward’s room, to behold3 Michael just rousing from his curled-up sleep on the floor. But when he left, his surprise would have been shocking could he have seen through the closed door what immediately began to take place. Out through the open port-hole, in a steady stream, Daughtry was passing the contents of the room. Everything went that belonged to him, including the turtle-shell and the photographs and calendars on the wall. Michael, with the command of silence laid upon him, went last. Remained only a sea-chest and two suit-cases, themselves too large for the port-hole but bare of contents.
When Daughtry sauntered along the main deck a few minutes later and paused for a gossip with the customs officer and a quartermaster at the head of the gang-plank4, Captain Duncan little dreamed that his casual glance was resting on his steward for the last time. He watched him go down the gang-plank empty-handed, with no dog at his heels, and stroll off along the wharf5
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n.乘务员,服务员;看管人;膳食管理员 | |
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harp
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abasement
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tug
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mariner
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babbled
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pawnbroker
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scant
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velvet
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seamen
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galley
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humility
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inviting
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hacking
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cleavers
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allotted
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分配,拨给,摊派( allot的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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entirely
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ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地 | |
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gem
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affected
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momentary
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accomplished
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adj.有才艺的;有造诣的;达到了的 | |
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v.(车、船等倚壁而设的)铺位( bunk的现在分词 );空话,废话 | |
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privily
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creases
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(使…)起折痕,弄皱( crease的第三人称单数 ); (皮肤)皱起,使起皱纹 | |
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exclusion
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stewards
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阻挠( thwart的第三人称单数 ); 使受挫折; 挫败; 横过 | |
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