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Chapter Sixteen A PLAN — AND A NARROW ESCAPE
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Chapter Sixteen A PLAN — AND A NARROW ESCAPE
DICK unbolted the door at the top and bottom and flung it open. He rushed in and thumped1 Georgeand Julian happily on the back.
"Hallo!" he said. "How does it feel to be rescued?""Fine!" cried Julian, and Tim barked madly round them.
George grinned at Dick.
"Good work!" she said. "What happened?"
Dick told them in a few words all that had happened. When he related how he had climbed down theold well, George and Julian could hardly believe their ears. Julian slipped his arm through hisyounger brother's.
"You're a brick!" he said. "A real brick! Now quick—what are we going to do?""Well, if they've left us our boat I'm going to take us all back to the mainland as quickly as possible,"said George. "I'm not playing about with men who brandish2 revolvers all the time.
Come on! Up the well we go and find the boat."They ran to the well-shaft3 and squeezed through the small opening one by one. Up the rope theywent, and soon found the iron ladder. Julian made them go up one by one in case the ladder wouldn'tbear the weight of all three at once.
It really wasn't very long before they were all up in the open air once more, giving Anne hugs, andhearing her exclaim gladly, with tears in her eyes, how pleased she was to see them all again.
"Now come on!" said George after a minute. "Off to the boat. Quick! Those men may be back at anytime."
They rushed to the cove4. There was their boat, lying where they had pulled it, out of reach of thewaves. But what a shock for them!
"They've taken the oars5!" said George, in dismay. "The beasts! They know we can't row the boataway without oars. They were afraid you and Anne might row off, Dick— so instead of bothering totow the boat behind them, they just grabbed the oars. Now we're stuck. We can't possibly get away."80
It was a great disappointment. The children were almost ready to cry. After Dick's marvellous rescueof George and Julian, it had seemed as if everything was going right— and now suddenly things weregoing wrong again.
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v.重击, (指心脏)急速跳动( thump的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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v.挥舞,挥动;n.挥动,挥舞 | |
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n.桨,橹( oar的名词复数 );划手v.划(行)( oar的第三人称单数 ) | |
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6 dungeon | |
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19 runaway | |
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20 dangling | |
悬吊着( dangle的现在分词 ); 摆动不定; 用某事物诱惑…; 吊胃口 | |
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