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“I stood last vigil for him myself,” Ser Barristan Selmy said as they looked down at the body inthe back of the cart. “He had no one else. A mother in the Vale, I am told.”
In the pale dawn light, the young knight1 looked as though he were sleeping. He had not beenhandsome, but death had smoothed his rough-hewn features and the silent sisters had dressed him inhis best velvet2 tunic3, with a high collar to cover the ruin the lance had made of his throat. EddardStark looked at his face, and wondered if it had been for his sake that the boy had died. Slain5 by aLannister bannerman before Ned could speak to him; could that be mere6 happenstance? He supposedhe would never know.
“Hugh was Jon Arryn’s squire7 for four years,” Selmy went on. “The king knighted him before herode north, in Jon’s memory. The lad wanted it desperately9, yet I fear he was not ready.”
Ned had slept badly last night and he felt tired beyond his years. “None of us is ever ready,” hesaid.
“For knighthood?”
“For death.” Gently Ned covered the boy with his cloak, a bloodstained bit of blue bordered increscent moons. When his mother asked why her son was dead, he reflected bitterly, they would tellher he had fought to honor the King’s Hand, Eddard Stark4. “This was needless. War should not be agame.” Ned turned to the woman beside the cart, shrouded11 in grey, face hidden but for her eyes. Thesilent sisters prepared men for the grave, and it was ill fortune to look on the face of death. “Send hisarmor home to the Vale. The mother will want to have it.”
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n.骑士,武士;爵士 | |
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maiden
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melee
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joust
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gasp
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ragged
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小跑,急走( trot的现在分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走 | |
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v.使产生凹痕( dent的过去式和过去分词 );损害;伤害;挫伤(信心、名誉等) | |
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(使)作汽笛声响,作汽车喇叭声( hoot的现在分词 ); 倒好儿; 倒彩 | |
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