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CHAPTER XVI
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IN WHICH CHALLENGER HAS THE EXPERIENCE OF HIS LIFETIME
SO now the nets were set and the pit was dug and the hunters were all ready for the great quarry1, but the question was whether the creature would allow himself to be driven in the right direction. Had Challenger been told that the meeting was really held in the hope of putting convincing evidence before him as to the truth of spirit intercourse2 with the aim of his eventual3 conversion4, it would have roused mingled5 anger and derision in his breast. But the clever Malone, aided and abetted6 by Enid, still put forward the idea that his presence would be a protection against fraud, and that he would be able to point out to them how and why they had been deceived. With this thought in his mind, Challenger gave a contemptuous and condescending8 consent to the proposal that he should grace with his presence a proceeding10 which was, in his opinion, more fitted to the stone cabin of a neolithic11 savage12 than to the serious attention of one who represented the accumulated culture and wisdom of the human race.
Enid accompanied her father, and he also brought with him a curious companion who was strange both to Malone and to the rest of the company. This was a large, raw-boned Scottish youth, with a freckled13 face, a huge figure, and a taciturnity which nothing could
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investigator
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fowl
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altercation
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v.呻吟( groan的过去式和过去分词 );发牢骚;抱怨;受苦 | |
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clairvoyance
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adverse
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disappearance
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wrangling
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impatience
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hesitation
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