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Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
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For a moment or two I sat breathless, hardly able to believe my ears. Then my senses and my voice came back to me, while a crushing weight of responsibility seemed in an instant to be lifted from my soul. That cold, incisive1, ironical2 voice could belong to but one man in all the world.
“Holmes!” I cried—“Holmes!”
“Come out,” said he, “and please be careful with the revolver.”
I stooped under the rude lintel, and there he sat upon a stone outside, his grey eyes dancing with amusement as they fell upon my astonished features. He was thin and worn, but clear and alert, his keen face bronzed by the sun and roughened by the wind. In his tweed suit and cloth cap he looked like any other tourist upon the moor3, and he had contrived4, with that catlike love of personal cleanliness which was one of his characteristics, that his chin should be as smooth and his linen5 as perfect as if he were in Baker6 Street.
“Or more astonished, eh?”
“Well, I must confess to it.”
“The surprise was not all on one side, I assure you. I had no idea that you had found my occasional retreat, still less that you were inside it, until I was within twenty paces of the door.”
“My footprint, I presume?”
“No, Watson, I fear that I could not undertake to recognize your footprint amid all the footprints of the world. If you seriously desire to deceive me you must change your tobacconist; for when I see the stub of a cigarette marked Bradley, Oxford
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adj.敏锐的,机敏的,锋利的,切入的 | |
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adj.讽刺的,冷嘲的 | |
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moor
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n.面包师 | |
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wrung
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绞( wring的过去式和过去分词 ); 握紧(尤指别人的手); 把(湿衣服)拧干; 绞掉(水) | |
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Oxford
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appreciation
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zeal
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deception
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twilight
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ridge
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autobiography
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investigation
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murmur
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avenge
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dreary
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prostrate
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rustle
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exclamation
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skull
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peculiar
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groaned
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brute
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lurking
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mangled
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spasm
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wringing
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conjectures
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conjecture
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