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CHAPTER XX WHO IS GUILTY?
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The urchin1 presented a more dilapidated appearance than he had ever done before even when in his native slums as a street-arab. The neat serge suit with which Miss Grison's kindness had supplied him was smeared3 with green slime and covered with cobwebs, besides being torn in many places. But Alan did not look so much at the lad's clothes as at his face and figure, for he was terribly emaciated5, and so weak, apparently6 with hunger, that he could scarcely keep his legs. When he saw Fuller he burst into tears, and Sorley allowed him to drop on to the carpet.
"How does the lad come here?" demanded Fuller indignantly, "and what have you been doing to him that he should be in this terrible state?"
"He knows the truth," snarled7 Sorley, who looked quite wolfish at the moment, and cast a vindictive8 look at his victim, "and I have been trying to starve it out of him."
"But y' haven't," murmured Jotty feebly, game to the last, "gimme sumthin' t' eat an' drink, mister, or I'm a goner," and his head dropped as though he would die then and there. But Sorley only laughed at his sufferings.
"I was certain that the boy knew the truth," he declared savagely10; "and when he came to warn me I lured11 him to the cellars and locked him up."
"Without food?" questioned Alan with horror, and knelt by the boy to put one of the biscuits Sorley had left on the table between his lips.
"No, I fed him occasionally," said the man sullenly
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cove
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sullenly
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nourishment
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frankly
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malevolent
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coppers
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铜( copper的名词复数 ); 铜币 | |
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grovelling
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malignant
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innocence
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inspector
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miserable
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vengeance
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n. 拖鞋 | |
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conceal
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malicious
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coffin
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sinister
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rigidly
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iniquity
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astonishment
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嘲讽( taunt的过去式和过去分词 ); 嘲弄; 辱骂; 奚落 | |
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lawful
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growth; economy; management; and customer satisfaction 增长 | |
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