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CHAPTER XVI THE MISSING WITNESS
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On the seventeenth, the day I was trysted with the Writer, I had much rebellion against fate. The thought of him waiting in the King's Arms, and of what he would think, and what he would say when next we met, tormented2 and oppressed me. The truth was unbelievable, so much I had to grant, and it seemed cruel hard I should be posted as a liar3 and a coward, and have never consciously omitted what it was possible that I should do. I repeated this form of words with a kind of bitter relish4, and re-examined in that light the steps of my behaviour. It seemed I had behaved to James Stewart as a brother might; all the past was a picture that I could be proud of, and there was only the present to consider. I could not swim the sea, nor yet fly in the air, but there was always Andie. I had done him a service, he liked me; I had a lever there to work on; if it were just for decency5, I must try once more with Andie.
It was late afternoon; there was no sound in all the Bass6 but the lap and bubble of a very quiet sea; and my four companions were all crept apart, the three [pg 194]Macgregors higher on the rock, and Andie with his Bible to a sunny place among the ruins; there I found him in deep sleep, and, as soon as he was awake, appealed to him with some fervour of manner and a good show of argument.
"If I thoucht it was to do guid to ye, Shaws!" said he, staring at me over his spectacles.
"It's to save another," said I, "and to redeem7 my word. What would be more good than that? Do ye no mind the scripture8, Andie? And you with the Book upon your lap! What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world?"
"Ay," said he, "that's grand for you. But where do I come in? I have my word to redeem the same's yoursel'. And what are ye asking me to do, but just to sell it ye for siller?"
"Andie! have I named the name of siller?" cried I.
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writ
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tormented
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liar
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relish
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pickle
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bribe
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gratitude
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misery
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slumber
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distress
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cove
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meddle
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discretion
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laboriously
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adversaries
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sniff
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caresses
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contention
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imprisonment
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incensed
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accomplished
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westward
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lame
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fathoms
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deserted
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countenance
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consolation
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secrecy
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maroons
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standing
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alacrity
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swelled
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impatience
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wilderness
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annoyance
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interval
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highland
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rekindle
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outrageously
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doctrine
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| 乱涂,潦草地写( scrawl的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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faltered
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