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Chapter XV Mysterious Footprints
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As the British plane piloted by Lieutenant1 Harold Percy Smith-Oldwick rose above the jungle wilderness2 where Bertha Kircher's life had so often been upon the point of extinction3, and sped toward the east, the girl felt a sudden contraction5 of the muscles of her throat. She tried very hard to swallow something that was not there. It seemed strange to her that she should feel regret in leaving behind her such hideous6 perils8, and yet it was plain to her that such was the fact, for she was also leaving behind something beside the dangers that had menaced her—a unique figure that had entered her life, and for which she felt an unaccountable attraction.
Before her in the pilot's seat sat an English officer and gentleman whom, she knew, loved her, and yet she dared to feel regret in his company at leaving the stamping ground of a wild beast!
Lieutenant Smith-Oldwick, on his part, was in the seventh heaven of elation10. He was in possession again of his beloved ship, he was flying swiftly in the direction of his comrades and his duty, and with him was the woman he loved. The fly in the ointment12, however, was the accusation13 Tarzan had made against this woman. He had said that she was a German, and a spy, and from the heights of bliss14 the English officer was occasionally plunged15 to the depths of despair in contemplation of the
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adj. 被侵蚀的,有蚀痕的 动词erode的过去式和过去分词形式 | |
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n.野兽的巢穴;躲藏处 | |
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adj.缺乏的,不足的,瘦的 | |
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