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Chapter 9 The Spike
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First of all, I must beg forgiveness of my body for the vileness1 through which I have dragged it, and forgiveness of my stomach for the vileness which I have thrust into it. I have been to the spike3, and slept in the spike, and eaten in the spike; also, I have run away from the spike.
After my two unsuccessful attempts to penetrate4 the Whitechapel casual ward5, I started early, and joined the desolate6 line before three o’clock in the afternoon. They did not “let in” till six, but at that early hour I was number twenty, while the news had gone forth7 that only twenty-two were to be admitted. By four o’clock there were thirty-four in line, the last ten hanging on in the slender hope of getting in by some kind of a miracle. Many more came, looked at the line, and went away, wise to the bitter fact that the spike would be “full up.”
Conversation was slack at first, standing8 there, till the man on one side of me and the man on the other side of me discovered that they had been in the smallpox9 hospital at the same time, though a full house of sixteen hundred patients had prevented their becoming acquainted. But they made up for it, discussing and comparing the more loathsome10 features of their disease in the most cold-blooded, matter-of-fact way. I learned that the average mortality was one in six, that one of them had been in three months and the other three months and a half, and that they had been “rotten wi’ it.” Whereat my flesh began to creep and crawl, and I asked them how long they had been out. One had been out two weeks, and the other three weeks. Their faces were badly pitted (though each assured the other that this was not so), and further, they showed me in their hands and under the nails the smallpox “seeds” still working out.
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lute
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toil
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n.门口,(喻)入门;门路,途径 | |
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v.伸开四肢坐[躺]( sprawl的过去式和过去分词);蔓延;杂乱无序地拓展;四肢伸展坐着(或躺着) | |
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destitution
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superintendent
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n.监督人,主管,总监;(英国)警务长 | |
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vilely
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adv.讨厌地,卑劣地 | |
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mumble
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filthy
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noisomeness
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scattered
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grunting
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