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CHAPTER XX
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JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
1 October, evening.—I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal Green, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything. The very prospect1 of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch2. I learned, however, from his wife, who seemed a decent, poor soul, that he was only the assistant to Smollet, who of the two mates was the responsible person. So off I drove to Walworth, and found Mr. Joseph Smollet at home and in his shirtsleeves, taking a late tea out of a saucer. He is a decent, intelligent fellow, distinctly a good, reliable type of workman, and with a headpiece of his own. He remembered all about the incident of the boxes, and from a wonderful dog’s-eared notebook, which he produced from some mysterious receptacle about the seat of his trousers, and which had hieroglyphical3 entries in thick, half-obliterated pencil, he gave me the destinations of the boxes. There were, he said, six in the cartload which he took from Carfax and left at 197, Chicksand Street, Mile End New Town, and another six which he deposited at Jamaica Lane, Bermondsey. If then the Count meant to scatter4 these ghastly refuges of his over London, these places were chosen as the first of delivery, so that later he might distribute more fully5. The systematic6 manner in which this was done made me think that he could not mean to confine himself to two sides of London. He was now fixed7 on the far east of the northern shore, on the east of the southern shore, and on the south. The north and west were surely never meant to be left out of his diabolical8 scheme—let alone the City itself and the very heart of fashionable London in the south-west and west. I went back to Smollet, and asked him if he could tell us if any other boxes had been taken from Carfax.
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debauch
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hieroglyphical
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scatter
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alley
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scrap
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promising
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phonetic
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remains
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copper
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westward
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shutters
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investigation
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grooms
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suave
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eyebrows
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laconic
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complexion
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chambers
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honourable
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deviate
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gallant
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wrung
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| 绞( wring的过去式和过去分词 ); 握紧(尤指别人的手); 把(湿衣服)拧干; 绞掉(水) | |
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allusion
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shudders
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coup
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wretch
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mighty
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decided
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puckered
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well-being
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repulse
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psychic
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faculties
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benign
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arrogate
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deity
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purely
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lapse
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insanity
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sanity
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antagonism
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preying
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cerebral
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dreads
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gaily
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amazement
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vendors
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