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Chapter 11
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Who speaks to the King carries his life in his hand.
— Native Proverb.
Tarvin found the Maharajah, who had not yet taken his morning allowance of opium1, sunk in the deepest depression. The man from Topaz gazed at him shrewdly, filled with his purpose.
The Maharajah’s first words helped him to declare it. ‘What have you come here for?’ he asked.
‘To Rhatore?’ inquired Tarvin, with a smile that embraced the whole horizon.
‘Yes; to Rhatore,’ grunted2 the Maharajah. ‘The agent sahib says you do not belong to any government, and that you have come here only to see things and write lies about them. Why have you come?’
‘I have come to turn your river. There is gold in it,’ he said steadily4.
The Maharajah answered him with brevity. ‘Go and speak to the Government,’ he said sulkily.
‘It’s your river, I guess,’ returned Tarvin cheerfully.
‘Mine! Nothing in the State is mine. The shopkeeper people are at my gates day and night. The agent sahib won’t let me collect taxes as my fathers used to do. I have no army.’
‘That’s perfectly5 true,’ assented6 Tarvin, under his breath. ‘I’ll run off with it some morning.’
‘And if I had,’ continued the Maharajah, ‘I have no one to fight against. I am only an old wolf, with all my teeth drawn7. Go away!’
They were talking in the flagged courtyard immediately outside that wing of the palace occupied by Sitabhai. The Maharajah was sitting in a broken Windsor chair, while his grooms8 brought up successive files of horses, saddled and bridled10, in the hope that one of the animals might be chosen for his Majesty’s ride. The stale, sick air of the palace drifted across the marble flags before the morning wind, and it was not a
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opium
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n.鸦片;adj.鸦片的 | |
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(猪等)作呼噜声( grunt的过去式和过去分词 ); (指人)发出类似的哼声; 咕哝着说 | |
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pony
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withers
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brass
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erect
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leisurely
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mare
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n.母马,母驴 | |
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clatter
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arsenal
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vernacular
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弯曲或下垂,发蔫( droop的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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muffled
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adj.(声音)被隔的;听不太清的;(衣服)裹严的;蒙住的v.压抑,捂住( muffle的过去式和过去分词 );用厚厚的衣帽包着(自己) | |
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rustle
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shutters
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百叶窗( shutter的名词复数 ); (照相机的)快门 | |
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nostrils
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pundit
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immortal
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buffalo
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n.(北美)野牛;(亚洲)水牛 | |
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刺,扎,戳( prick的过去式和过去分词 ); 刺伤; 刺痛; 使剧痛 | |
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感情,激情; 缰( rein的名词复数 ); 控制手段; 掌管; (成人带着幼儿走路以防其走失时用的)保护带 | |
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hiss
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n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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liking
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scribbled
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v.潦草的书写( scribble的过去式和过去分词 );乱画;草草地写;匆匆记下 | |
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ecstasy
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n.狂喜,心醉神怡,入迷 | |
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adj.跳进的,突进的v.颠簸( plunge的现在分词 );暴跌;骤降;突降 | |
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deftly
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adv.灵巧地,熟练地,敏捷地 | |
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killing
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n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财 | |
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clattered
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发出咔哒声(clatter的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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lashed
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adj.具睫毛的v.鞭打( lash的过去式和过去分词 );煽动;紧系;怒斥 | |
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prancing
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devoted
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worthy
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wrenched
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v.(猛力地)扭( wrench的过去式和过去分词 );扭伤;使感到痛苦;使悲痛 | |
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cavalry
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n.骑兵;轻装甲部队 | |
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brute
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n.野兽,兽性 | |
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lathering
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bucked
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adj.快v.(马等)猛然弓背跃起( buck的过去式和过去分词 );抵制;猛然震荡;马等尥起后蹄跳跃 | |
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gaily
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trot
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discursiveness
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pawn
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admiration
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colloquialisms
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jaw
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猛打,重击,打击( smite的过去分词 ) | |
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