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CHAPTER 34. Gone
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On a healthy autumn day, the Marshalsea prisoner, weak but otherwise restored, sat listening to a voice that read to him. On a healthy autumn day; when the golden fields had been reaped and ploughed again, when the summer fruits had ripened1 and waned2, when the green perspectives of hops3 had been laid low by the busy pickers, when the apples clustering in the orchards4 were russet, and the berries of the mountain ash were crimson5 among the yellowing foliage6. Already in the woods, glimpses of the hardy7 winter that was coming were to be caught through unaccustomed openings among the boughs8 where the prospect9 shone defined and clear, free from the bloom of the drowsy10 summer weather, which had rested on it as the bloom lies on the plum. So, from the seashore the ocean was no longer to be seen lying asleep in the heat, but its thousand sparkling eyes were open, and its whole breadth was in joyful11 animation12, from the cool sand on the beach to the little sails on the horizon, drifting away like autumn-tinted leaves that had drifted from the trees.
Changeless and barren, looking ignorantly at all the seasons with its fixed13, pinched face of poverty and care, the prison had not a touch of any of these beauties on it. Blossom what would, its bricks and bars bore uniformly the same dead crop. Yet Clennam, listening to the voice as it read to him, heard in it all that great Nature was doing, heard in it all the
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bonnet
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heartily
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使人畏缩的,使人害羞的,使人难堪的 | |
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exertion
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torpor
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undoubtedly
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aggravating
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jealousy
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labyrinth
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folly
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pastry
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refreshment
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补充( replenish的过去式和过去分词 ); 重新装满 | |
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