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LXII FAREWELL, JANE!
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"Happiest man in New Orleans!"
So called himself, to Colonel Greenleaf, the large, dingy-gray, lively-eyed Major Kincaid, at the sentinelled door of the room where he and his four wan1 fellows, snatched back from liberty on the eve of release, were prisoners in plain view of the vessel2 on which they were to have gone free.
With kind dignity Greenleaf predicted their undoubted return to the craft next morning. Strange was the difference between this scene and the one in which, eighteen months before, these two had last been together in this room. The sentry3 there knew the story and enjoyed it. In fact, most of the blue occupants of the despoiled4 place had a romantic feeling, however restrained, for each actor in that earlier episode. Yet there was resentment5, too, against Greenleaf's clemencies6.
"Wants?" said the bedless captive to his old chum, "no, thank you, not a want!" implying, with his eyes, that the cloud overhanging Greenleaf for favors shown to--hmm!--certain others was already dark enough, "We've parlor7 furniture galore," he laughed, pointing out a number of discolored and broken articles that had been beautiful. One was the screen behind which the crouching8 Flora9 had heard him tell the ruin of her Mobile home and had sworn revenge on this home and on its fairest inmate10.
During the evening the prisoners grew a bit noisy, in song; yet even when their ditties were helped out by a rhythmic
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wan
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vessel
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n.船舶;容器,器皿;管,导管,血管 | |
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sentry
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n.哨兵,警卫 | |
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despoiled
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v.掠夺,抢劫( despoil的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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n.宽容,仁慈( clemency的名词复数 );(尤指气候等)温和 | |
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parlor
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n.店铺,营业室;会客室,客厅 | |
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v.屈膝,蹲伏( crouch的现在分词 ) | |
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flora
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n.(某一地区的)植物群 | |
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n.被收容者;(房屋等的)居住人;住院人 | |
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rhythmic
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clatter
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tilted
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veranda
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snail
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asunder
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mortar
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warily
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droll
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stanza
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adj.衣衫褴褛的,粗糙的,刺耳的 | |
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grove
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