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22 Tarzan Recovers His Reason
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As Tarzan let the pebbles1 from the recovered pouch2 run through his fingers, his thoughts returned to the pile of yellow ingots about which the Arabs and the Abyssinians had waged their relentless3 battle.
What was there in common between that pile of dirty metal and the beautiful, sparkling pebbles that had formerly4 been in his pouch? What was the metal? From whence had it come? What was that tantalizing5 half-conviction which seemed to demand the recognition of his memory that the yellow pile for which these men had fought and died had been intimately connected with his past—that it had been his?
What had been his past? He shook his head. Vaguely6 the memory of his apish childhood passed slowly in review—then came a strangely tangled7 mass of faces, figures and events which seemed to have no relation to Tarzan of the Apes, and yet which were, even in their fragmentary form, familiar.
Slowly and painfully, recollection was attempting to reassert itself, the hurt brain was mending, as the cause of its recent failure to function was being slowly absorbed or removed by the healing processes of perfect circulation.
The people who now passed before his mind's eye for the first time in weeks wore familiar faces; but yet he could neither place them in the niches9 they had once filled in his past life, nor call them by name. One was a fair she, and it was her face which most often moved through the tangled recollections of his convalescing10 brain. Who was she? What had she been to Tarzan of the Apes? He seemed to see her about the very spot upon which the pile of gold had been
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[复数]鹅卵石; 沙砾; 卵石,小圆石( pebble的名词复数 ) | |
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unearthed
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savage
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发出隆隆声,发出辘辘声( rumble的过去式和过去分词 ); 轰鸣着缓慢行进; 发现…的真相; 看穿(阴谋) | |
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bungalow
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踩( trample的过去式和过去分词 ); 践踏; 无视; 侵犯 | |
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scent
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solitary
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molest
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