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Wild Swans
Flo said to watch out for White Slavers. She said this was how they operated: an old woman, amotherly or grandmotherly sort, made friends while riding beside you on a bus or train. Sheoffered you candy, which was drugged. Pretty soon you began to droop1 and mumble2, were in nocondition to speak for yourself. Oh, Help, the woman said, my daughter (granddaughter) is sick,please somebody help me get her off so that she can recover in the fresh air. Up stepped a politegentleman, pretending to be a stranger, offering assistance. Together, at the next stop, they hustledyou off the train or bus, and that was the last the ordinary world ever saw of you. They kept you aprisoner in the White Slave place (to which you had been transported drugged and bound so youwouldn’t even know where you were), until such time as you were thoroughly3 degraded and indespair, your insides torn up by drunken men and invested with vile4 disease, your mind destroyedby drugs, your hair and teeth fallen out. It took about three years, for you to get to this state. Youwouldn’t want to go home, then, maybe couldn’t remember home, or find your way if you did. Sothey let you out on the streets.
Flo took ten dollars and put it in a little cloth bag which she sewed to the strap5 of Rose’s slip.
Another thing likely to happen was that Rose would get her purse stolen.
Watch out, Flo said as well, for people dressed up as ministers. They were the worst. Thatdisguise was commonly adopted by White Slavers, as well as those after your money.
Rose said she didn’t see how she could tell which ones were disguised.
Flo had worked in Toronto once. She had worked as a waitress in a coffee shop in unionStation. That was how she knew all she knew. She never saw sunlight, in those days, except on herdays off. But she saw plenty else. She saw a man cut another man’s stomach with a knife, just pullout his shirt and do a tidy cut, as if it was a water-melon not a stomach. The stomach’s owner justsat looking down surprised, with no time to protest. Flo implied that that was nothing, in Toronto.
She saw two bad women (that was what Flo called whores, running the two words together, likebadminton) get into a fight, and a man laughed at them, other men stopped and laughed and eggedthem on, and they had their fists full of each other’s hair. At last the police came and took themaway, still howling and
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v.低垂,下垂;凋萎,萎靡 | |
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shameful
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humiliation
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rustle
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v.沙沙作响;偷盗(牛、马等);n.沙沙声声 | |
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(被砍下的树的)树桩( stump的名词复数 ); 残肢; (板球三柱门的)柱; 残余部分 | |
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innocence
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rubble
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assent
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humble
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精炼厂( refinery的名词复数 ) | |
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glided
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dome
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rosy
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arrogance
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perversely
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pushy
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reminder
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entirely
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preposterous
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