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Brother Geraint pulled his black cowl forward over his head, and stepped out into the porch. Some one thrust the door to behind him, and there was the sound of an oak bar being dropped into the slots.
A full moon stared at Brother Geraint over the top of a thorn hedge. He stood there for a while in the deep shadow, licking his lips, and listening.
Somewhere down the valley a dog was baying the moon, a little trickle1 of discord2 running through the supreme3 silence of the night. Brother Geraint tucked his hands into his sleeves, grinned at the moon, and started down the path with his shadow following at his heels. He loitered a moment at the gate, glancing back over his shoulder at the house that blinked never a light at him, but stood solid and black and silent in the thick of a smother4 of apple trees.
The man at the gate nodded his head gloatingly.
“Peace be with you.”
He gave a self-pleased, triumphant5 snuffle, swung the gate open, glanced up and down the path that crossed the meadows, and then turned homewards through the moonlight.
In Orchard6 Valley the dew lay like silver samite on the grass, and the boughs7 of the apple trees were white as snow. Between the willows8 the Rondel river ran toward the sea, sleek9 and still and glassy, save where it thundered over the weir10 beside the prior’s mill. The bell-tower of Paradise cut the northern sky into two steel-bright halves. Over yonder beyond the river the Forest held up a cloak of mystery across the west. Its great
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trickle
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vi.淌,滴,流出,慢慢移动,逐渐消散 | |
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n.不和,意见不合,争论,(音乐)不和谐 | |
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adj.胜利的,成功的;狂欢的,喜悦的 | |
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orchard
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n.果园,果园里的全部果树,(美俚)棒球场 | |
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大树枝( bough的名词复数 ) | |
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willows
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beech
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splendor
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domes
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brilliance
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devout
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chaste
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adj.贞洁的;有道德的;善良的;简朴的 | |
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pinnacles
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顶峰( pinnacle的名词复数 ); 顶点; 尖顶; 小尖塔 | |
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gargoyles
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n.怪兽状滴水嘴( gargoyle的名词复数 ) | |
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boon
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n.恩赐,恩物,恩惠 | |
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scoffing
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n. 嘲笑, 笑柄, 愚弄 v. 嘲笑, 嘲弄, 愚弄, 狼吞虎咽 | |
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n.(学院、修道院、教堂等建筑的)走廊( cloister的名词复数 );回廊;修道院的生活;隐居v.隐退,使与世隔绝( cloister的第三人称单数 ) | |
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bastard
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doorway
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choir
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jack
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dedicated
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kennel
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sniffing
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poking
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parlor
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briskness
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glistened
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protuberant
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grunted
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jug
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eschews
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n.脆弱( frailty的名词复数 );虚弱;(性格或行为上的)弱点;缺点 | |
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impatience
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fanatic
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ironical
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