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CHAPTER XX My Last Sight of the Reverend John Laputa
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It was dark before I got into the gorge1 of the Letaba. I passed many patrols, but few spoke2 to me, and none tried to stop me. Some may have known me, but I think it was my face and figure which tied their tongues. I must have been pale as death, with tangled3 hair and fever burning in my eyes. Also on my left temple was the splash of blood.
At Main Drift I found a big body of police holding the ford5. I splashed through and stumbled into one of their camp-fires. A man questioned me, and told me that Arcoll had got his quarry6. ‘He’s dead, they say. They shot him out on the hills when he was making for the Limpopo.’ But I knew that this was not true. It was burned on my mind that Laputa was alive, nay7, was waiting for me, and that it was God’s will that we should meet in the cave.
A little later I struck the track of the Kaffirs’ march. There was a broad, trampled8 way through the bush, and I followed it, for it led to Dupree’s Drift. All this time I was urging the Schimmel with all the vigour9 I had left in me. I had quite lost any remnant of fear. There were no terrors left for me either from Nature or man. At Dupree’s Drift I rode the ford without a thought of crocodiles. I looked placidly10 at the spot where Henriques had slain11 the Keeper and I had stolen the rubies12. There was no interest or imagination lingering in my dull brain. My nerves had suddenly become things of
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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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adj. 纠缠的,紊乱的 动词tangle的过去式和过去分词 | |
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杀死,宰杀,杀戮( slay的过去分词 ); (slay的过去分词) | |
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landmark
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(使某物)燃烧,着火( kindle的过去式和过去分词 ); 激起(感情等); 发亮,放光 | |
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pellucid
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Christian
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scattered
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recess
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fumbling
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hoard
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tottered
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growth; economy; management; and customer satisfaction 增长 | |
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