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Chapter 18. A Night Of Surprises.
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If the American had expected to surprise or delight his companion by this curt1 announcement he was woefully disappointed, for De Catinat approached him with a face which was full of sympathy and trouble, and laid his hand caressingly2 upon his shoulder.
“My dear friend,” said he, “I have been selfish and thoughtless. I have made too much of my own little troubles and too little of what you have gone through for me. That fall from your horse has shaken you more than you think. Lie down upon this straw, and see if a little sleep may not—”
“I tell you that the bishop3 is there!” cried Amos Green impatiently.
“Quite so. There is water in this jug4, and if I dip my scarf into it and tie it round your brow—”
“Man alive! Don’t you hear me! The bishop is there.”
“He is, he is,” said De Catinat soothingly5. “He is most certainly there. I trust that you have no pain?”
The American waved in the air with his knotted fists. “You think that I am crazed,” he cried, “and, by the eternal, you are enough to make me so! When I say that I sent the bishop, I mean that I saw to the job. You remember when I stepped back to your friend the major?”
It was the soldier’s turn to grow excited now. “Well?” he cried, gripping the other’s arm.
“Well, when we send a scout6 into the woods, if the matter is worth it, we send a second one at another hour, and so one or other comes back with his hair on. That’s the Iroquois fashion, and a good fashion too.”
“My God! I believe that you have saved me!”
“You needn’t grip on to my arm like a fish-eagle on a trout7! I went back to the major, then, and I asked him when he was in Paris to pass by the archbishop’s door.”
“Well? Well?”
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adj.简短的,草率的 | |
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爱抚地,亲切地 | |
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n.主教,(国际象棋)象 | |
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n.童子军,侦察员;v.侦察,搜索 | |
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trout
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latch
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capering
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sneered
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讥笑,冷笑( sneer的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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dungeon
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imprisonment
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v.打瞌睡,假寐 n.瞌睡 | |
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sinister
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accounting
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n.会计,会计学,借贷对照表 | |
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n.衣夹( peg的名词复数 );挂钉;系帐篷的桩;弦钮v.用夹子或钉子固定( peg的第三人称单数 );使固定在某水平 | |
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chateau
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hoarse
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n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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v.发出浓烈的臭气( reek的现在分词 );散发臭气;发出难闻的气味 (of sth);明显带有(令人不快或生疑的跡象) | |
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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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staple
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v.拯救,救出;解脱 | |
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(因极度痛苦而)扭动或翻滚( writhe的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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增强( swell的过去式和过去分词 ); 肿胀; (使)凸出; 充满(激情) | |
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tangled
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outwards
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fumble
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lout
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virgin
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wittiest
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