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CHAPTER XXVI On the Bay Shore
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“I WONDER,” thought Emily, “how much longer I have to live.”
She had prowled that evening further down the bay shore than she had ever gone before. It was a warm, windy evening; the air was resinous1 and sweet; the bay a
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misty turquoise2. That part of the shore whereon she found herself seemed as lonely and virgin3 as if no human foot had ever trodden it, save for a tiny, tricksy path, slender as red thread and bordered by great, green, velvety4 sheets of moss5, that wound in and out of the big firs and scrub spruces. The banks grew steeper and rockier as she went on and finally the little path vanished altogether in a plot of bracken. Emily was just turning to go back when she caught sight of a magnificent spray of farewell summer, growing far out on the edge of the bank. She must get it—she had never seen farewell-summers of so dark and rich a purple. She stepped out to reach them—the treacherous6 mossy soil gave way under her feet and slid down the steep slope. Emily made a frantic7 attempt to scramble8 back but the harder she tried, the faster went the landslide10, carrying her with it. In a moment it would pass the slope and go over the brink11 of the rocks, straight to the boulder-strewn shore thirty feet below. Emily had one dreadful moment of terror and despair; and then she found that the clump12 of mossy earth which had broken away had held on a narrow
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resinous
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adj.树脂的,树脂质的,树脂制的 | |
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virgin
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moss
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scramble
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landslide
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boulders
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underneath
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plight
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postscript
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overflowed
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crest
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boughs
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大树枝( bough的名词复数 ) | |
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amber
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[复数]鹅卵石; 沙砾; 卵石,小圆石( pebble的名词复数 ) | |
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lured
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吸引,引诱(lure的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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remarkably
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caressing
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etiquette
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knightly
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pointed
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meddling
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astonishment
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liking
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innocence
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journalism
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wilderness
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frankly
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grimace
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bustle
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blithely
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sanctuary
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perfectly
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eyebrows
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