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CHAPTER XI NEARING THE END
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There was no especial reason as far as I know for closing that last chapter, and commencing a new one, except that it was getting too long in my opinion. For the story I was telling was incomplete, I having gone off at an unexpected angle on the question of food supplies. However, I will now resume and say that the influx1 of work I mentioned lasted for a fortnight, during the whole of which time I can aver2 that, except on Sundays, I was never in bed after 3 a.m. or before 11 p.m., and that I was often so weary on coming home from the city with a load of moulding, that I would sit down on a chair in the shop and be unable to rise for half an hour. But as I would not allow myself to think about the future, or ask myself what was the good of it all, I was not unhappy, and I was able to take a good deal of pride in my work. And by the time the pressure slackened, I had settled that wretched summons, had paid my rates, and a few other immediate3 liabilities, besides being able to buy a few sorely needed articles of clothing for the family.
There was however no lightening of the old burden of debt, and in fact I realised that nothing short of a miracle would enable me to do that. For if I got all the work I craved5 for I should surely break down, while the utmost that I could earn would not do much more than pay the heavy current expenses of the shop. Had I been able to employ some help, it might have been better, but I don't know about that. I had to do my own errands—I could not delegate my buying in the city to anybody else, although it did entail6 such a heavy burden upon me physically7. Meanwhile I paid cash for everything I had, though I did not pay anything of the bills already incurred8.
In this connection I have an amusing recollection. The moulding merchant with whom I dealt was an elderly German in a large way of business, and I had always heard of him as a
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4 den | |
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5 craved | |
渴望,热望( crave的过去式 ); 恳求,请求 | |
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7 physically | |
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9 kindly | |
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11 premises | |
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13 fully | |
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14 gratitude | |
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15 solace | |
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16 amazement | |
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17 radical | |
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18 admiration | |
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19 detest | |
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20 doctrines | |
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21 socialists | |
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22 incurably | |
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23 degenerate | |
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24 subversion | |
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25 beget | |
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26 savagery | |
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27 positively | |
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28 blatant | |
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29 cant | |
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30 suburban | |
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31 toils | |
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32 preyed | |
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33 propounded | |
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34 borough | |
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35 genial | |
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36 vices | |
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37 itinerant | |
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38 wharf | |
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39 retail | |
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40 retails | |
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41 vending | |
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42 wares | |
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43 legitimate | |
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44 vendor | |
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45 stony | |
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46 imperative | |
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47 marketing | |
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48 laborious | |
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49 humble | |
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50 grandiloquently | |
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51 vagaries | |
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52 exquisite | |
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53 hospitable | |
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54 grove | |
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55 truculent | |
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56 hideous | |
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57 travesty | |
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58 consonants | |
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59 warrior | |
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60 pawned | |
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61 redeemed | |
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62 amiability | |
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63 sardonic | |
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64 sardonically | |
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65 bristling | |
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66 coup | |
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67 negotiations | |
协商( negotiation的名词复数 ); 谈判; 完成(难事); 通过 | |
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68 peculiarity | |
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69 graphically | |
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70 depicted | |
描绘,描画( depict的过去式和过去分词 ); 描述 | |
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71 wrought | |
v.引起;以…原料制作;运转;adj.制造的 | |
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72 untoward | |
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73 baker | |
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74 tenant | |
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75 paupers | |
n.穷人( pauper的名词复数 );贫民;贫穷 | |
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76 astuteness | |
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77 pawnbroker | |
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78 alias | |
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79 evaded | |
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80 entrap | |
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81 dealers | |
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82 perishable | |
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83 bakers | |
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84 gentry | |
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85 maker | |
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86 strings | |
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87 decided | |
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88 shutters | |
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89 conceal | |
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90 downwards | |
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91 intervals | |
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92 whit | |
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93 perfectly | |
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