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`I HAVE saved him.' It was not another of the dreams in which he had often come back; he was really here. And yet his wife trembled, and a vague but heavy fear was upon her.
All the air around was so thick and dark, the people were so passionately1 revengeful and fitful, the innocent were so constantly put to death on vague suspicion and black malice2, it was so impossible to forget that many as blameless as her husband and as dear to others as he was to her, every day shared the fate from which he had been clutched, that her heart could not be as lightened of its load as she felt it ought to be. The shadows of the wintry afternoon were beginning to fall, and even now the dreadful carts were rolling through the streets. Her mind pursued them, looking for him among the Condemned3; and then she clung closer to his real presence and trembled more.
Her father, cheering her, showed a compassionate4 superiority to this woman's weakness, which was wonderful to see. No garret, no shoemaking, no One Hundred and Five, North Tower, now! He had accomplished5 the task he had set himself, his promise was redeemed6, he had saved Charles. Let them all lean upon him.
Their housekeeping was of a very frugal7 kind: not only because that was the safest way of life, involving the least offence to the people, but because they were not rich, and Charles, throughout his imprisonment8, had had to pay heavily for his bad food, and for his guard, and towards the living of the poorer prisoners. Partly on this account, and partly to avoid a domestic spy, they kept no servant; the citizen and citizeness who acted as porters at the court-yard gate, rendered them occasional service; and Jerry (almost wholly transferred to them by Mr. Lorry) had become their daily retainer, and had his bed there every night.
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ad.热烈地,激烈地 | |
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n.恶意,怨恨,蓄意;[律]预谋 | |
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adj.有才艺的;有造诣的;达到了的 | |
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adj. 可赎回的,可救赎的 动词redeem的过去式和过去分词形式 | |
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n.被收容者;(房屋等的)居住人;住院人 | |
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v.写,刻( inscribe的过去式和过去分词 );内接 | |
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v.美化( embellish的过去式和过去分词 );装饰;修饰;润色 | |
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n.损害,伤害,危害;恶作剧,捣蛋,胡闹 | |
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v.抗议( remonstrate的过去式和过去分词 );告诫 | |
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