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LXI THE FLAG-OF-TRUCE BOAT
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September was in its first week. The news of Vicksburg--and Port Hudson--ah, yes, and Gettysburg!--was sixty days old.
From Southern Mississippi and East Louisiana all the grays who marched under the slanting1 bayonet or beside the cannon's wheel were gone. Left were only the "citizen" with his family and slaves, the post quartermaster and commissary, the conscript-officer, the trading Jew, the tax-in-kind collector, the hiding deserter, the jayhawker, a few wounded boys on furlough, and Harper's cavalry2. Throughout the Delta3 and widely about its grief-broken, discrowned, beggared, shame-crazed, brow-beaten Crescent City the giddying heat quaked visibly over the high corn, cotton, and cane4, up and down the broken levees and ruined highways, empty by-ways, and grass-grown railways, on charred5 bridges, felled groves6, and long burnt fence lines. The deep, moss-draped, vine-tangled swamps were dry.
So quivered the same heat in the city's empty thoroughfares. Flowers rioted in the unkept gardens. The cicada's frying note fried hotter than ever. Dazzling thunder-heads towered in the upper blue and stood like snow mountains of a vaster world. The very snake coiled in the shade. The spiced air gathered no freshness from the furious, infrequent showers, the pavements burned the feet, and the blue "Yank" (whom there no one dared call so by word or look), so stoutly7 clad, so uncouthly8 misfitted, slept at noon face downward in the high grass under the trees of the public squares preempted9 by his tents, or with piece loaded and bayonet fixed10
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rippling
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gossamer
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specimen
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哨兵,步兵( sentry的名词复数 ) | |
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descry
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scouted
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寻找,侦察( scout的过去式和过去分词 ); 物色(优秀运动员、演员、音乐家等) | |
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joyfully
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胡同,小巷( alley的名词复数 ); 小径 | |
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n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂 | |
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oblivious
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adj.易忘的,遗忘的,忘却的,健忘的 | |
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n.爱国精神,爱国心,爱国主义 | |
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