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WHILE Sydney Carton and the Sheep of the prisons were in the adjoining dark room, speaking so low that not a sound was heard, Mr. Lorry looked at Jerry in considerable doubt and mistrust. That honest tradesman's manner of receiving the look, did not inspire confidence; he changed the leg on which he rested, as often as if he had fifty of those limbs, and were trying them all; he examined his finger-nails with a very questionable2 closeness of attention; and whenever Mr. Lorry's eye caught his, he was taken with that peculiar3 kind of short cough requiring the hollow of a hand before it, which is seldom, if ever, known to be an infirmity attendant on perfect openness of character.
`Jerry,' said Mr. Lorry. `Come here.'
Mr. Cruncher came forward sideways, with one of his shoulders in advance of him.
`What have you been, besides a messenger?'
After some cogitation4, accompanied with an intent look at his patron, Mr. Cruncher conceived the luminous5 idea of replying, `Agricultooral character.'
`My mind misgives6 me much,' said Mr. Lorry, angrily shaking a forefinger7 at him, `that you have used the respectable and great house of Tellson's as a blind, and that you have had an unlawful occupation of an infamous8 description. If you have, don't expect me to befriend you when you get back to England. If you have, don't expect me to keep your secret. Tellson's shall not be imposed upon.'
`I hope, sir,' pleaded the abashed9 Mr. Cruncher, `that a gentleman like yourself wot I've had the honour of odd jobbing till I'm grey at it, would think twice about harming of me, even if it wos,--so I don't say it is, but even if it wos. And which it is to be took into account that if it wos, it wouldn't, even then, be all o' one side. There'd be two sides to it. There might be medical doctors at the present hour, a picking up their guineas where a honest tradesman don't pick up his fardens--fardens! no, nor yet his half fardens--half fardens! no, nor yet his quarter--a

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confide
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v.向某人吐露秘密 | |
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peroration
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repent
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countenance
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affected
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deliberately
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expressive
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negligence
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defiance
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doom
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rusty
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abounding
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监狱,拘留所( gaol的名词复数 ) | |
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lighter
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picturesque
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dominion
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eddy
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courageous
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animated
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monstrously
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vengeance
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patriots
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prosecutor
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aristocrat
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tyrants
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forgery
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conspirator
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frantic
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expounded
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