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We were now down in Westminster. We had turned back to follow her, having encountered her coming towards us; and Westminster Abbey was the point at which she passed from the lights and noise of the leading streets. She proceeded so quickly, when she got free of the two currents of passengers setting towards and from the bridge, that, between this and the advance she had of us when she struck off, we were in the narrow water-side street by Millbank before we came up with her. At that moment she crossed the road, as if to avoid the footsteps that she heard so close behind; and, without looking back, passed on even more rapidly.
A glimpse of the river through a dull gateway1, where some waggons2 were housed for the night, seemed to arrest my feet. I touched my companion without speaking, and we both forbore to cross after her, and both followed on that opposite side of the way; keeping as quietly as we could in the shadow of the houses, but keeping very near her.
There was, and is when I write, at the end of that low-lying street, a dilapidated little wooden building, probably an obsolete3 old ferry-house. Its position is just at that point where the street ceases, and the road begins to lie between a row of houses and the river. As soon as she came here, and saw the water, she stopped as if she had come to her destination; and presently went slowly along by the brink5 of the river, looking intently at it.
All the way here, I had supposed that she was going to some house; indeed, I had vaguely6 entertained the hope that the house might be in some way associated with the lost girl. But that one dark glimpse of the river, through the gateway, had instinctively7 prepared me for her going no farther.
The neighbourhood was a dreary8 one at that time; as oppressive, sad, and solitary9 by night, as any about London. There were neither

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四轮的运货马车( waggon的名词复数 ); 铁路货车; 小手推车 | |
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corruption
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passionately
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syllable
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guilt
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relinquish
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v.放弃,撤回,让与,放手 | |
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devoid
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v.放弃;拒绝承认,宣布与…断绝关系 | |
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