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CHAPTER XIX "THEY SHALL NOT PASS"
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One cold grey morning in February Gertrude Oliver wakened with a shiver, slipped into Rilla's room, and crept in beside her.
"Rilla—I'm frightened—frightened as a baby—I've had another of my strange dreams. Something terrible is before us—I know."
"What was it?" asked Rilla.
"I was standing1 again on the veranda2 steps—just as I stood in that dream on the night before the lighthouse dance, and in the sky a huge black, menacing thunder cloud rolled up from the east. I could see its shadow racing3 before it and when it enveloped4 me I shivered with icy cold. Then the storm broke—and it was a dreadful storm—blinding flash after flash and deafening6 peal7 after peal, driving torrents8 of rain. I turned in panic and tried to run for shelter, and as I did so a man—a soldier in the uniform of a French army officer—dashed up the steps and stood beside me on the threshold of the door. His clothes were soaked with blood from a wound in his breast, he seemed spent and exhausted9; but his white face was set and his eyes blazed in his hollow face. 'They shall not pass,' he said, in low, passionate10 tones which I heard distinctly amid all the turmoil11 of the storm. Then I awakened12. Rilla, I'm frightened—the spring will not bring the Big Push we've all been hoping for—instead it is going to bring some dreadful blow to France. I am sure of it. The Germans will try to smash through somewhere."
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passionate
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变平,使(某物)变平( flatten的第三人称单数 ); 彻底打败某人,使丢脸; 停止增长(或上升); (把身体或身体部位)紧贴… | |
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behold
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