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CHAPTER 70
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Desperately1 wounded, O'Connor lay between life and death for many weeks in the dim and secluded2 apartment whither O'Hanlon had borne him after his combat with Sir Henry Ashwoode. There, fearing lest his own encounter with Wharton, and its startling result, should mark them for pursuit and search, he placed O'Connor under the charge of trusty creatures of his own—for some time not daring to visit him except under cover of the night. This alarm, however, soon subsided3; and consequently less precaution was adopted. O'Connor's wounds were, as we have said, most dangerous, and for fully4 two months he lay upon the fiery5 couch of fever, alternately raving6 in delirium7, and locked in the dull stupor8 of entire apathy9 and exhaustion10. Through this season of pain and peril11 he was sustained, however, by the energies of a young and vigorous constitution. The fever, at length, abated12, and the unclouded light of reason returned; still, however, in body he was weak, so weak that, sorely against his will, he was perforce obliged to continue the occupant of his narrow bed, in the dingy13 and secluded
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secluded
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delirium
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stupor
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exhaustion
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revival
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chamber
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apothecary
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confinement
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approbation
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mortification
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disquiet
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alacrity
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forgery
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agitation
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anticipation
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desolate
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contagious
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ignominious
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conceal
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| 劫掠后的残迹,破坏的结果,毁坏后的残迹 | |
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defiance
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