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Chapter 15 What was Caught in the Traps that Were Set
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How Bradley Headstone had been racked and riven in his mind since the quiet evening when by the river-side he had risen, as it were, out of the ashes of the Bargeman, none but he could have told. Not even he could have told, for such misery1 can only be felt.
First, he had to bear the combined weight of the knowledge of what he had done, of that haunting reproach that he might have done it so much better, and of the dread2 of discovery. This was load enough to crush him, and he laboured under it day and night. It was as heavy on him in his scanty3 sleep, as in his red-eyed waking hours. It bore him down with a dread unchanging monotony, in which there was not a moment’s variety. The overweighted beast of burden, or the overweighted slave, can for certain instants shift the physical load, and find some slight respite4 even in enforcing additional pain upon such a set of muscles or such a limb. Not even that poor mockery of relief could the wretched man obtain, under the steady pressure of the infernal atmosphere into which he had entered.
Time went by, and no visible suspicion dogged him; time went by, and in such public accounts of the attack as were renewed at intervals5, he began to see Mr Lightwood (who acted as lawyer for the injured man) straying further from the fact, going wider of the issue, and evidently slackening in his zeal6. By degrees, a glimmering7 of the cause of this began to break on Bradley’s sight. Then came the chance meeting with Mr Milvey at the railway station (where he often lingered in his leisure hours, as a place where any fresh news of his deed would be circulated, or any placard referring to it would be posted), and then he saw in the light what he had brought about.
For, then he saw that through his desperate attempt to separate those two for ever, he had been made the means of uniting them. That he had dipped his hands in blood, to mark himself a
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1 misery | |
n.痛苦,苦恼,苦难;悲惨的境遇,贫苦 | |
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5 intervals | |
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7 glimmering | |
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8 miserable | |
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9 providence | |
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10 forth | |
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11 defrauded | |
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12 implicated | |
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13 abject | |
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14 warily | |
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15 chasm | |
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16 possessed | |
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17 countenances | |
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18 standing | |
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20 chuckle | |
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21 wheedling | |
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23 shrill | |
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24 attentively | |
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25 perfectly | |
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26 jaw | |
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28 hoarse | |
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29 entrapment | |
n.(非法)诱捕,诱人犯罪;诱使犯罪 | |
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30 smearing | |
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31 relish | |
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35 weir | |
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37 tardy | |
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38 steadily | |
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39 dreary | |
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40 demons | |
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43 smoker | |
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48 bloody | |
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49 croaking | |
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50 dressing | |
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51 bust | |
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52 wrest | |
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53 arduous | |
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54 pawn | |
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55 retired | |
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56 affected | |
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57 averted | |
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59 rigidly | |
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60 rigid | |
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61 contemplating | |
深思,细想,仔细考虑( contemplate的现在分词 ); 注视,凝视; 考虑接受(发生某事的可能性); 深思熟虑,沉思,苦思冥想 | |
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62 texture | |
n.(织物)质地;(材料)构造;结构;肌理 | |
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63 degenerating | |
衰退,堕落,退化( degenerate的现在分词 ) | |
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64 transparent | |
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65 elicit | |
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66 catching | |
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67 trudged | |
vt.& vi.跋涉,吃力地走(trudge的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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68 retrace | |
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69 abruptly | |
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70 impeded | |
阻碍,妨碍,阻止( impede的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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71 mere | |
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72 rattle | |
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73 dryer | |
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74 brink | |
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75 slash | |
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