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CHAPTER XII.
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FOR a couple of hours I walked on briskly, careless in what direction I went, so long as I kept my back turned on Barkingham.
By the time I had put seven miles of ground, according to my calculations, between me and the red-brick house, I began to look upon the doctor’s writing-desk rather in the light of an incumbrance, and determined1 to examine it without further delay. Accordingly I picked up the first large stone I could find in the road, crossed a common, burst through a hedge, and came to a halt, on the other side, in a thick wood. Here, finding myself well screened from public view, I broke open the desk with the help of the stone, and began to look over the contents.
To my unspeakable disappointment I found but few papers of any kind to examine. The desk was beautifully fitted with all the necessary materials for keeping up a large correspondence; but there were not more than half a dozen letters in it altogether. Four were on business matters, and the other two were of a friendly nature, referring to persons and things in which I did not feel the smallest interest. I found besides half a dozen bills receipted (the doctor was a mirror of punctuality in the payment of tradesmen), note and letter-paper of the finest quality, clarified pens, a pretty little pin-cushion, two small account-books filled with the neatest entries, and some leaves of blotting2-paper. Nothing else; absolutely nothing else, in the treacherous3 writing-desk on which I had implicitly4 relied to guide me to Alicia’s hiding-place.
I groaned5 in sheer wretchedness over the destruction of all my dearest plans and hopes. If the Bow Street runners had come into the plantation6 just as I had completed the rifling of the desk I think I should have let them take me without making the slightest effort at escape. As it was, no living soul appeared within sight of me. I must have sat at the foot of a tree for full half an hour, with the doctor’s useless bills and letters before me, with my head in my hands, and with all my energies of body and mind
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plantation
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utterly
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faculties
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doggedly
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justify
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elasticity
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authorize
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stationery
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n.文具;(配套的)信笺信封 | |
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perfectly
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blotted
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涂污( blot的过去式和过去分词 ); (用吸墨纸)吸干 | |
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banish
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literally
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maiden
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consolation
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apron
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n.围裙;工作裙 | |
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transformation
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inveterately
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entirely
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defiance
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conveyance
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adverse
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frugal
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exhausted
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distress
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entreats
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恳求,乞求( entreat的第三人称单数 ) | |
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tenement
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n.公寓;房屋 | |
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perusal
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n.细读,熟读;目测 | |
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desultory
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adj.散漫的,无方法的 | |
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mansion
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n.大厦,大楼;宅第 | |
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comatose
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adj.昏睡的,昏迷不醒的 | |
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stertorous
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adj.打鼾的 | |
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lamentable
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refreshments
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relish
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n.滋味,享受,爱好,调味品;vt.加调味料,享受,品味;vi.有滋味 | |
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alteration
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n.变更,改变;蚀变 | |
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sip
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v.小口地喝,抿,呷;n.一小口的量 | |
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rogue
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alias
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rosy
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bland
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landlady
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custody
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advantageous
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proceedings
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soothingly
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proprietor
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invalid
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scattered
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