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Chapter the Twenty-Third
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’Tis when the wound is stiffening1 with the cold.
The warrior2 first feels pain —’tis when the heat
And fiery3 fever of his soul is pass’d,
The sinner feels remorse4.
Old play.
The feelings of compunction with which Halbert Glendinning was visited upon this painful occasion, were deeper than belonged to an age and country in which human life was held so cheap. They fell far short certainly of those which might have afflicted5 a mind regulated by better religious precepts6, and more strictly7 trained under social laws; but still they were deep and severely8 felt, and divided in Halbert’s heart even the regret with which he parted from Mary Avenel and the tower of his fathers.
The old traveller walked silently by his side for some time, and then addressed him. —“My son, it has been said that sorrow must speak or die — Why art thou so much cast down? — Tell me thy unhappy tale, and it may be that my gray head may devise counsel and aid for your young life.”
“Alas!” said Halbert Glendinning, “can you wonder why I am cast down? — I am at this instant a fugitive9 from my father’s house, from my mother, and from my friends, and I bear on my head the blood of a man who injured me but in idle words, which I have thus bloodily10 requited11. My heart now tells me I have done evil — it were harder than these rocks if it could bear unmoved the thought, that I have sent this man to a long account, unhousled and unshrieved.”
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n. (使衣服等)变硬的材料, 硬化 动词stiffen的现在分词形式 | |
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repentance
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doctrine
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zeal
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迷宫( maze的名词复数 ); 纷繁复杂的规则; 复杂难懂的细节; 迷宫图 | |
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bog
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exhausted
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fatigue
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stoutly
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