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Chapter Thirty One.
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Failure and a New Scent1.
Although our hero’s plan of search may seem to some rather Quixotic, there was nothing further from his thoughts than merely playing at the game of amateur detective. Being enthusiastic and sanguine2, besides being spurred on by an intense desire to rescue the father of May Leather, Charlie Brooke was thoroughly3 in earnest in his plan. He knew that it would be useless to attempt such a search and rescue in any other capacity than that of a genuine pauper4, at least in appearance and action. He therefore resolved to conduct the search in character, and to plunge5 at once into the deepest pools of the slums.
It is not our intention to carry the reader through the Arabian-night-like adventures which he experienced in his quest. Suffice it to say that he did not find the lost man in the pools in which he fished for him, but he ultimately, after many weeks, found one who led him to the goal he aimed at.
Meanwhile there were revealed to him numerous phases of life—or, rather, of living death—in the slums of the great city which caused him many a heartache at the time, and led him ever afterwards to consider with anxious pity the condition of the poor, the so-called lost and lapsed6, the depraved, degraded, and unfortunate. Of course he found—as so many had found before him—that the demon7 Drink was at the bottom of most of the misery8 he witnessed, but he also learned that whereas many weak and vicious natures dated the commencement of their final descent and fall from the time when they began to drink, many of the strong and ferocious9 spirits had begun a life of wickedness in early youth, and only added drink in after years as a little additional fuel to the already roaring flame of sin.
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scent
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creeds
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(尤指宗教)信条,教条( creed的名词复数 ) | |
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paupers
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mace
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annoyance
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severely
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habitual
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goodwill
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pretence
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temperament
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tenement
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n.公寓;房屋 | |
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Christian
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mingled
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混合,混入( mingle的过去式和过去分词 ); 混进,与…交往[联系] | |
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mischief
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adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的 | |
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savages
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未开化的人,野蛮人( savage的名词复数 ) | |
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cowardice
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n.胆小,怯懦 | |
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逃避( evade的过去式和过去分词 ); 避开; 回避; 想不出 | |
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entirely
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ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地 | |
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defensive
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adj.防御的;防卫的;防守的 | |
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beak
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vigour
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astounding
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antagonist
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n.敌人,对抗者,对手 | |
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rebound
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submission
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everlasting
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