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Chapter 14 Of the visitor who ran down the road in the night-time
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It was a quarter past ten o’clock by the parlour timepiece when my father went off to his room, and left Esther and myself together. We heard his slow steps dying away up the creaking staircase, until the distant slamming of a door announced that he had reached his sanctum.
The simple oil lamp upon the table threw a weird1, uncertain light over the old room, flickering2 upon the carved oak panelling, and casting strange, fantastic shadows from the high-elbowed, straight-backed furniture. My sister’s white, anxious face stood out in the obscurity with a startling exactness of profile like one of Rembrandt’s portraits.
We sat opposite to each other on either side of the table with no sound breaking the silence save the measured ticking of the clock and the intermittent3 chirping4 of a cricket beneath the grate.
There was something awe-inspiring in the absolute stillness. The whistling of a belated peasant upon the high road was a relief to us, and we strained our ears to catch the last of his notes as he plodded5 steadily6 homewards.
At first we had made some pretence7 — she of knitting and I of reading — but we soon abandoned the useless deception8, and sat uneasily waiting, starting and glancing at each other with questioning eyes whenever the faggot crackled in the fire or a rat scampered9 behind the wainscot. There was a heavy electrical feeling in the air, which weighed us down with a foreboding of disaster.
I rose and flung the hall door open to admit the fresh breeze of the night. Ragged
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weird
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adj.间歇的,断断续续的 | |
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鸟叫,虫鸣( chirp的现在分词 ) | |
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v.沉重缓慢地走(路)( plod的过去式和过去分词 );努力从事;沉闷地苦干;缓慢进行(尤指艰难枯燥的工作) | |
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deception
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scampered
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v.蹦蹦跳跳地跑,惊惶奔跑( scamper的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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doorway
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loomed
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sullen
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clatter
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clattering
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发出咔哒声(clatter的现在分词形式) | |
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rattle
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adj.(声音)被隔的;听不太清的;(衣服)裹严的;蒙住的v.压抑,捂住( muffle的过去式和过去分词 );用厚厚的衣帽包着(自己) | |
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v.喘气( gasp的过去式和过去分词 );喘息;倒抽气;很想要 | |
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corpse
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stimulant
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acting
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catastrophe
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thwarting
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distressing
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chamber
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aesthetic
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countenances
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Buddhist
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upwards
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downwards
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slumber
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shrill
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swelling
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reverberating
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回响,回荡( reverberate的现在分词 ); 使反响,使回荡,使反射 | |
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intensity
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frantically
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ad.发狂地, 发疯地 | |
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constraint
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delusion
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moor
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beacon
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judgment
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prospect
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jack
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investigation
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intervention
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disappearance
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Buddhists
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