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Martin Valliant had fallen into great darkness of soul.
The Forest lay about him, vast, silent, and mysterious; the sky was overclouded, and the moon obscured; and life seemed like the Forest, all black and without a purpose, a wilderness1 where wild beasts wandered and outcast men hid themselves from the law.
For a while he wandered about among the beech2 trees like a blind man who had lost his way, for in very truth he was blind of soul, so smitten3 through with anguish4 that he could neither think nor pray. A stupor5 gripped him, a stupor of misery6 and helplessness. It was as though a great hand had swept down and put out the white light that had burned within him; blackness, nothingness, remained.
As he went to and fro under the great trees, Martin Valliant struggled to break through this human anguish and all this coil and tumult7 of loving and being loved. He tried to stand as his old self, calm, patient, gentle, a watcher of other men’s lives. Things had been so quietly ordered in the old days; nothing had been able to master him, to send him like a blown leaf whirling with the wind.
But now—what had happened? Was God mocking him, or had he been cheated by the devil? Who was God, and who was the devil? What was this thing that men called sin? Was life only a huge fable8, a piece of tapestry9, behind which lay the burning, passionate10 reality, the being and becoming, the great glowing
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hypocrisies
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savage
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sincerity
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sullenly
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不高兴地,绷着脸,忧郁地 | |
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n.冬青(常绿灌木,叶尖而硬,有光泽,冬季结红色浆果)( holly的名词复数 );(用作圣诞节饰物的)冬青树枝 | |
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holly
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n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动 | |
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boughs
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apron
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bridle
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n.[物]散射;散乱,分散;在媒介质中的散播adj.散乱的;分散在不同范围的;广泛扩散的;(选票)数量分散的v.散射(scatter的ing形式);散布;驱散 | |
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caterpillars
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n.毛虫( caterpillar的名词复数 );履带 | |
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