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VII. In tuas manus, Domine!
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I had not got twenty yards from the cottage door ere I knew I was watched. I had left the shepherd still dozing1, in the half-conscious state of a dazed and broken man. All night the wind had wakened me at intervals3, and now in the half-light of morn the weather seemed more vicious than ever. The wind cut my ears, the whole firmament4 was full of the rendings and thunders of the storm. Rain fell in blinding sheets, the heath was a marsh7, and it was the most I could do to struggle against the hurricane which stopped my breath. And all the while I knew I was not alone in the desert.
All men know — in imagination or in experience — the sensation of being spied on. The nerves tingle8, the skin grows hot and prickly, and there is a queer sinking of the heart. Intensify9 this common feeling a hundredfold, and you get a tenth part of what I suffered. I am telling a plain tale, and record bare physical facts. My lips stood out from my teeth as I heard, or felt, a rustle10 in the heather, a scraping among stones. Some subtle magnetic link seemed established between my body and the mysterious world around. I became sick — acutely sick — with the ceaseless apprehension11.
My fright became so complete that when I turned a corner of rock, or stepped in deep heather, I seemed to feel a body rub against me. This continued all the way up the Farawa water, and then up its feeder to the little lonely loch. It kept me from looking forward; but it likewise kept me in such a sweat of fright that I was ready to faint. Then thenotion came upon me to test this fancy of mine. If I was tracked thus closely, clearly the trackers would bar my way if I turned back. So I wheeled round and walked a dozen paces down the glen.
Nothing stopped me. I was about to turn again, when something made me take six more paces. At the fourth something
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dozing
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v.打瞌睡,假寐 n.瞌睡 | |
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v.撕碎( rend的现在分词 );分裂;(因愤怒、痛苦等而)揪扯(衣服或头发等);(声音等)刺破 | |
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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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doze
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v.打瞌睡;n.打盹,假寐 | |
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vice
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dwelling
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apparently
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disappearance
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thither
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commotion
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meditating
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spoke
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prospect
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formerly
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shafts
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n.轴( shaft的名词复数 );(箭、高尔夫球棒等的)杆;通风井;一阵(疼痛、害怕等) | |
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cleft
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deafening
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scythe
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frustrated
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