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'IT'S TOO BAD THE GHOST HAS LOST her masts. Why, we could sail away in her. Don't you think we could, Humphrey?'
I sprang excitedly to my feet.
'I wonder- I wonder,' I repeated, pacing up and down.
Maud's eyes were shining with anticipation1 as they followed me. She had such faith in me! And the thought of it was so much added power. I remembered Michelet's: 'To man, woman is as the earth was to her legendary2 son; he has but to fall down and kiss her breast and he is strong again.' For the first time I knew the wonderful truth of his words. Why, I was living them. Maud was all this to me, an unfailing source of strength and courage. I had but to look at her, or think of her, and be strong again.
'It can be done- it can be done,' I was thinking and asserting aloud. 'What men have done I can do, and if they have never done this before, still I can do it.'
'What, for goodness' sake?' Maud demanded. 'Do be merciful. What is it you can do?'
'We can do it,' I amended3. 'Why, nothing else than put the masts back into the Ghost and sail away.'
'Humphrey!' she exclaimed.
And I felt as proud of my conception as if it were already a fact accomplished4.
'But how is it possibly to be done?' she asked.
'I don't know,' was my answer. 'I know only that I am capable of doing anything these days.'
I smiled proudly at her- too proudly, for she dropped her eyes and was for the moment silent.
'But there is Captain Larsen,' she objected.
'Blind and helpless,' I answered promptly5, waving him aside as a straw.
'But those terrible hands of his! You know how he leaped across the opening of the lazaret.'
'And you know also how I crept about and avoided him,' I contended gaily6.
'And lost your shoes.'
'You'd hardly expect him to avoid Wolf Larsen without my feet inside of them.'
We both laughed, and then went seriously to work constructing the plan whereby we were to step the masts of the Ghost and return to the world. I remembered
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anticipation
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adj. 修正的 动词amend的过去式和过去分词 | |
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