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This is the story of William Tyrwhitt, who went to King's Cobb for rest and change, and, with the latter, at least, was so far accommodated as for a time to get beyond himself and into regions foreign to his experiences or his desires. And for this condition of his I hold myself something responsible, inasmuch as it was my inquisitiveness1 was the means of inducing him to an exploration, of which the result, with its measure of weirdness2, was for him alone. But, it seems, I was appointed an agent of the unexplainable without my knowledge, and it was simply my misfortune to find my first unwitting commission in the selling of a friend.
I was for a few days, about the end of a particular July, lodged4 in that little old seaboard town of Dorset that is called King's Cobb. Thither5 there came to me one morning a letter from William Tyrwhitt, the polemical journalist (a queer fish, like the cuttle, with an ink-bag for the confusion of enemies), complaining that he was fagged and used up, and desiring me to say that nowhere could complete rest be obtained as in King's Cobb.
I wrote and assured him on this point. The town, I said, lay wrapped in the hills as in blankets, its head only, winking6 a sleepy eye, projecting from the top of the broad steep gully in which it was stretched at ease. Thither few came to the droning coast; and such as did, looked up at the High Street baking in the sun, and, thinking of Jacob's ladder, composed them to slumber7 upon the sand and left the climbing to the angels. Here, I said, the air and the sea were so still that one could hear the oysters9 snoring in their beds; and the little frizzle of surf on the beach was like to the sound to dreaming ears of bacon frying in the kitchens of the blest.
William Tyrwhitt came, and I met him at the station, six or seven miles away. He was all strained and springless, like a broken child's toy—"not like that William who, with lance in rest, shot through the lists in Fleet Street." A disputative galley-puller could have triumphed over him morally; a child
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inquisitiveness
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好奇,求知欲 | |
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牡蛎( oyster的名词复数 ) | |
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crumbling
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foul
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derisive
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opposition
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appalling
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abode
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descended
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phantom
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eccentricity
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wrought
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penetrating
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supplementary
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dilapidation
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rust
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rusty
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acrid
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forth
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surfeit
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grit
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dreary
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exclamation
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