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CHAPTER XII.
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It must be acknowledged that Godfrey was in a fair way to become a new man in this completely novel position to one so frivolous1, so light-minded, and so thoughtless. He had hitherto only had to allow himself to live. Never had care for the morrow disquieted2 his rest. In the opulent mansion3 in Montgomery Street, where he slept his ten hours without a break, not the fall of a rose leaf had ever troubled his slumbers4.
It was so no longer. On this unknown land he found himself thoroughly5 shut off from the rest of the world, left entirely6 to his own resources, obliged to face the necessities of life under conditions in which a man even much more practical might have been in great difficulty. Doubtless when it was found that the Dream did not return, a search for him would be made. But what were these two? Less than a needle in a hayrick[Pg 130] or a sand-grain on the sea-bottom! The incalculable fortune of Uncle Kolderup could not do everything.
When Godfrey had found his fairly acceptable shelter, his sleep in it was by no means undisturbed. His brain travelled as it had never done before. Ideas of all kinds were associated together: those of the past which he bitterly regretted, those of the present of which he sought the realization7, those of the future which disquieted him more than all!
But in these rough trials, the reason and, in consequence, the reasoning which naturally flows from it, were little by little freed from the limbo8 in which they had hitherto slept. Godfrey was resolved to strive against his ill-luck, and to do all he could to get out of his difficulties. If he escaped, the lesson would certainly not be lost on him for the future.
At daybreak he was astir, with the intention of
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n.大厦,大楼;宅第 | |
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thoroughly
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entirely
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微睡,睡眠(slumber的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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edible
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oyster
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shrub
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aperture
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poultry
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linen
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sector
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promontory
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vessel
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itineraries
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almighty
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immediate
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foliage
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