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Chapter XXI.
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When the general stampede occurred Winterborne had also been looking on, and encountering one of the girls, had asked her what caused them all to fly.
She said with solemn breathlessness that they had seen something very different from what they had hoped to see, and that she for one would never attempt such unholy ceremonies again. “We saw Satan pursuing us with his hour-glass. It was terrible!”
This account being a little incoherent, Giles went forward towards the spot from which the girls had retreated. After listening there a few minutes he heard slow footsteps rustling1 over the leaves, and looking through a tangled2 screen of honeysuckle which hung from a bough3, he saw in the open space beyond a short stout4 man in evening-dress, carrying on one arm a light overcoat and also his hat, so awkwardly arranged as possibly to have suggested the “hour-glass” to his timid observers — if this were the person whom the girls had seen. With the other hand he silently gesticulated and the moonlight falling upon his bare brow showed him to have dark hair and a high forehead of the shape seen oftener in old prints and paintings than in real life. His curious and altogether alien aspect, his strange gestures, like those of one who is rehearsing a scene to himself, and the unusual place and hour, were sufficient to account for any trepidation5 among the Hintock daughters at encountering him.
He paused, and looked round, as if he had forgotten where he was; not observing Giles, who was of the color of his environment. The latter advanced into the light. The gentleman held up his hand and came towards Giles, the two meeting half-way.
“I have lost my way,” said the stranger. “Perhaps you can put me in the path again.” He wiped his forehead with the air of one suffering under an agitation6 more than that of simple fatigue7.
“The turnpike-road is over there,” said Giles
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n. 瑟瑟声,沙沙声 adj. 发沙沙声的 | |
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2 tangled | |
adj. 纠缠的,紊乱的 动词tangle的过去式和过去分词 | |
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3 bough | |
n.大树枝,主枝 | |
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5 trepidation | |
n.惊恐,惶恐 | |
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6 agitation | |
n.搅动;搅拌;鼓动,煽动 | |
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7 fatigue | |
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8 decided | |
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n.爱好,癖好;adj.弯的;决心的,一心的 | |
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10 boughs | |
大树枝( bough的名词复数 ) | |
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11 twigs | |
细枝,嫩枝( twig的名词复数 ) | |
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adj.全神贯注的,入神的;被抢先占有的;心事重重的v.占据(某人)思想,使对…全神贯注,使专心于( preoccupy的过去式) | |
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13 pedestrians | |
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14 plantation | |
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15 hesitation | |
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19 astonishment | |
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21 dubiously | |
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22 distressed | |
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23 melancholy | |
n.忧郁,愁思;adj.令人感伤(沮丧)的,忧郁的 | |
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24 persistent | |
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25 confirmation | |
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26 narrative | |
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27 corroborated | |
v.证实,支持(某种说法、信仰、理论等)( corroborate的过去式 ) | |
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