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IX MARAUDERS
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The surprise was easily effected, for Colonel Cobo's men were accomplished1 in this sort of work. Rosa, crouching2 upon her bench, heard nothing, saw nothing, until out of the shadows beside her human forms materialized. Her white dress, like a dim phosphorescent glow in dark waters, betrayed her presence, and as she sprang to her feet rough hands seized her. She screamed once, twice; then a palm closed over her mouth and she began to struggle like a cat.
Evangelina, who had waked at the first outcry, met the marauders as they rushed through the door. The hush3 of the sleeping Jungle was shattered now; there were shouts and curses, loudly bellowed4 orders, a great scuffling and pounding of feet upon the dirt floor of the hut, the rickety, bark-covered walls bulged5 and creaked. Over all sounded the shrieks6 of the negress battling in the pitch-black interior like an animal in its lair8. Then some one set fire to the thatch9; the flames licked up the dead palm-leaves to the ridge10-pole, and the surroundings leaped into view.
Rosa saw a swarthy, thick-set man in the uniform of a Colonel of Volunteers, and behind him Pancho Cueto. Tearing the hand from her lips for a moment, she cried Cueto's name, but he gave no heed11. He was straining his gaze upon the door of the bohio in the immediate12 expectation of seeing Esteban emerge. He clutched a revolver in his hand, but it was plain from the nerveless way in which he held the weapon that he had little stomach for the adventure. He was, in fact, more inclined to run than to stand his ground. Rosa
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挤在一起(huddle的过去式与过去分词形式) | |
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imploring
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dwelling
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勒缰绳使(马)停步( rein的过去式和过去分词 ); 驾驭; 严格控制; 加强管理 | |
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grumbling
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adj. 喃喃鸣不平的, 出怨言的 | |
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winked
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rosy
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gallop
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crumbling
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charred
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hilarious
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briefly
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sobbing
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loam
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dodge
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tunic
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shrieking
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profane
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hacking
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outrage
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caressing
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cavalry
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trampled
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