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CHAPTER XIV.
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A NEW FRIEND FOUND—NEW DANGERS ENCOUNTERED AND HEW1 HOPES DELAYED.
When grey dawn began to dispel2 the gloom of night, Nigel Roy awoke with an uncomfortable sensation of having been buried alive. Stretching himself as was his wont3 he inadvertently touched the head of Van der Kemp, an exclamation4 from whom aroused Moses, who, uncoiling himself, awoke Spinkie. It was usually the privilege of that affectionate creature to nestle in the negro's bosom5.
With the alacrity6 peculiar7 to his race, Spinkie sprang through the manhole and sat down in his particular place to superintend, perhaps to admire, the work of his human friends, whose dishevelled heads emerged simultaneously8 from their respective burrows9.
Dawn is a period of the day when the spirit of man is calmly reflective. Speech seemed distasteful that morning, and as each knew what had to be done, it was needless. The silently conducted operations of the men appeared to arouse fellow-feeling in the monkey, for its careworn10 countenance11 became more and more expressive12 as it gazed earnestly and alternately into the faces of its comrades. To all appearance it seemed about to speak—but it didn't.
Pushing out from the shore they paddled swiftly up stream, and soon put such a distance between them and their late pursuers that all risk of being overtaken was at an end.
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brass
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hermit
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naturalist
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chuckle
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colossal
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frond
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n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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displeasing
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foliage
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jack
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spines
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luncheon
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