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13 The Masquerader
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As Tarzan dropped to the ground beyond the temple wall there was in his mind no intention to escape from the City of A-lur until he had satisfied himself that his mate was not a prisoner there, but how, in this strange city in which every man's hand must be now against him, he was to live and prosecute1 his search was far from clear to him.
There was only one place of which he knew that he might find even temporary sanctuary2 and that was the Forbidden Garden of the king. There was thick shrubbery in which a man might hide, and water and fruits. A cunning jungle creature, if he could reach the spot unsuspected, might remain concealed3 there for a considerable time, but how he was to traverse the distance between the temple grounds and the garden unseen was a question the seriousness of which he fully4 appreciated.
"Mighty5 is Tarzan," he soliloquized, "in his native jungle, but in the cities of man he is little better than they."
Depending upon his keen observation and sense of location he felt safe in assuming that he could reach the palace grounds by means of the subterranean6 corridors and chambers7 of the temple through which he had been conducted the day before, nor any slightest detail of which had escaped his keen eyes. That would be better, he reasoned, than crossing the open grounds above where his pursuers would naturally immediately follow him from the temple and quickly discover him.
And so a dozen paces from the temple wall he disappeared from sight of any chance observer above, down one of the stone stairways that led to the apartments beneath. The way that he had been conducted the previous day had followed the windings10 and turnings of numerous corridors and apartments, but Tarzan, sure of himself in such matters,
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prosecute
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vt.告发;进行;vi.告发,起诉,作检察官 | |
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humiliation
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grotesque
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concealing
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relinquished
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交出,让给( relinquish的过去式和过去分词 ); 放弃 | |
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corpse
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commotion
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warriors
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cursory
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anterior
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blasphemy
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connivance
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acquiesced
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obeisance
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fatigue
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wondrous
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slain
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impunity
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virgin
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alas
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naught
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fragrance
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