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CHAPTER XIV—FIGHTING FOR A LIFE
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Aynsley lay in danger for a long time; and Clay never left the mill. At last, however, the boy began to recover slowly, but when he grew well enough to notice things the scream of the saws and the throb1 of the engines disturbed him. The light wooden building vibrated with the roar of the machinery2; and when the machinery stopped the sound of the river gurgling about the log booms broke his sleep. He grumbled3 continually.
“How long does the doctor mean to keep me here?” he asked his father one day.
“I can’t say, but I understand that you can’t be moved just yet,” Clay answered. “Aren’t you comfortable?”
“Can you expect me to be, with the whole place jingling4 and shaking? If I’m to get better it must be away from the mill.”
“I’ll see what the doctor thinks; but there’s the difficulty that I don’t know where to take you. You wouldn’t be much quieter in Seattle. It’s curious, now I think of it, that I haven5’t had a home for a good many years, though I didn’t seem to miss it until this thing happened.”
Aynsley made a sign of languid agreement. He could not remember his mother, and his father had not kept house within his recollection. For the last few years he had rented luxurious6 rooms in a big hotel which Aynsley shared with him when not away visiting or on some sporting trip; but Aynsley now shrank from the lack of privacy and the bustle7 that went on all day and most of the night. There was not a restful nook in the huge, ornate building, which echoed with footsteps and voices, the clang of the street-cars, and the harsh grinding of electric elevators.
“I want to go somewhere where it’s quiet,” he said.
“Then I guess I’ll have to hire a bushman’s
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v.震颤,颤动;(急速强烈地)跳动,搏动 | |
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bask
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automobile
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seamen
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gratitude
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fixed
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determined
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prosper
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remarkable
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sedatives
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callous
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justified
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diffused
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散布的,普及的,扩散的 | |
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drowsiness
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lurking
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monotonous
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dreaded
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