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The morning sun hung, a red, lustreless1 ball, in the dull grey sky. A light snow had fallen in the night and the landscape, crossed by spider-like trails of fences, was as white and lifeless as if wrapped in a shroud3.
A young man was driving down the road to Rykman's Corner; the youthful face visible above the greatcoat was thoughtful and refined, the eyes deep blue and peculiarly beautiful, the mouth firm yet sensitive. It was not a handsome face, but there was a strangely subtle charm about it.
The chill breathlessness of the air seemed prophetic of more snow. The Reverend Allan Telford looked across the bare wastes and cold white hills and shivered, as if the icy lifelessness about him were slowly and relentlessly5 creeping into his own heart and life.
He felt utterly6 discouraged. In his soul he was asking bitterly what good had come of all his prayerful labours among the people of this pinched, narrow world, as rugged7 and unbeautiful in form and life as the barren hills that shut them in.
He had been two years among them and he counted it two years of failure. He had been too outspoken8 for them; they resented sullenly9 his direct and incisive11 tirades12 against their pet sins. They viewed his small innovations on their traditional ways of worship with disfavour and distrust and shut him out of their lives with an ever-increasing coldness. He had meant well and worked hard and he felt his failure keenly.
His thoughts reverted
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lustreless
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adj.无光泽的,无光彩的,平淡乏味的 | |
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pastor
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ministry
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slanderous
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下垂[沉,陷],松垂,垂度 | |
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semblance
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passionate
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potent
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warped
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perverted
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scanty
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forth
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analyze
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gulf
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misty
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passionately
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