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Chapter 16 Sergeant Troy leaves
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When Bathsheba ran out of the house the previous night,Troy first replaced the coffin1 lid,then went upstairs to lie on his bed and wait miserably2 for the morning.
The day before,on Monday,he had waited for Fanny,as arranged,on the bridge just outside Casterbridge,for over an hour. He had Bathsheba's twenty pounds and seven pounds of his own to give Fanny. When she did not come,he became angry,remembering the last time she had failed to arrive,on her wedding day. In fact she was at that moment being put in her coffin at the workhouse,but he did not know that. He rode straight to the races at Budmouth and stayed there all afternoon. But he was still thinking of Fanny,and he did not risk any money on the horses. Only on his way home did he suddenly realize that illness could have prevented her from meeting him,and only when he entered the farmhouse3 that evening did he discover that she was dead.
On Tuesday morning Troy got up and,without even thinking about Bathsheba,went straight to the churchyard to find the position of Fanny's grave4. He continued on foot to Casterbridge to order the best gravestone available for twenty-seven pounds,which was all the money he had. Having ar-ranged for it to be put on the grave that afternoon,he returned to Weatherbury in the evening,with a basket of flowering plants. The new gravestone was already in place,and he worked solidly5 for several hours in the churchyard,putting the plants carefully into the soft earth of her grave. When it start- ed raining,however,he decided6 to spend the rest of the night in the shelter7 of the church,and finish his planting in the morning.
The rain that night was unusually heavy,and water began to pour from a broken pipe on the church roof straight on to Fanny's grave. As the earth there had only recently been dug,the grave became a kind of muddy
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1 coffin | |
n.棺材,灵柩 | |
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2 miserably | |
adv.痛苦地;悲惨地;糟糕地;极度地 | |
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3 farmhouse | |
n.农场住宅(尤指主要住房) | |
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4 grave | |
n.墓穴,坟墓,雕刻工,抑音;adj.庄重的,严肃的,重大的,低沉的;vt.雕刻 | |
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5 solidly | |
adv.坚固地;牢靠地;团结一致地;整整地 | |
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adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的 | |
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n.掩蔽,掩蔽处,避身处;庇护所,避难所,庇护;vt.庇护,保护,隐匿;vi.躲避 | |
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8 muddy | |
adj.泥泞的,污的,肮脏的;vt.使污浊,使沾上泥污 | |
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10 stained | |
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11 shallow | |
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12 softening | |
变软,软化 | |
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13 guilt | |
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15 silently | |
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16 willing | |
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17 prisoner | |
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18 lighter | |
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19 cheerfully | |
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