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Brother Martin said matins to the sparrows who had built their nests in the thatch1 of the chapel2, and having drunk a cup of spring water and eaten a crust of bread, he set out early to try to lose himself in the Forest.
For life on the Black Moor3 was not all that it had seemed, and a young man, however devout4 and determined5 he may be, cannot satisfy his soul with prayers and the planting of seeds in a garden. Martin had entered upon the life with methodical enthusiasm, tolled6 the chapel bell at matins and vespers, swept out his cell, set the little guest-house in order, and done to death all the weeds in Father Jude’s garden. But a man must be fed, and it was in a struggle with this prime necessity that Martin suffered his first defeat. He started out cheerfully to bake bread, but the Devil was in the business; the oven was either too hot or too cold, and there were mysteries about such a simple thing as dough7 that Martin had not fathomed8. He tore a great hole in his cassock in climbing up the woodstack to throw down fagots, and then discovered that he had no needle and thread for the mending of the rent. These trivial domestic humiliations were discouraging. He conceived a most human hatred9 of salt meat, herrings, and the obstinate10 and adhesive11 pulp12
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vt.用茅草覆盖…的顶部;n.茅草(屋) | |
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conspiracy
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confession
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beech
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