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Chapter XXVII
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Flint House looked a picture of desolation in the chill grey day, wrapped in such silence that Charles’s cautious knock seemed to reverberate1 through the stillness around. But the knocking, repeated more loudly, aroused no human response. After waiting awhile the young man pulled the bell. From within the house a cracked and jangling tinkle2 echoed faintly, and then quivered into silence. He rang again, but there was no sound of foot or voice; no noise but the cries of the gulls3 overhead and the hoarse4 beat of the sea at the foot of the cliffs.
A cormorant5, sitting on a rock near by, twisted its thin neck to stare fearlessly at the visitor. But Charles Turold was not thinking of cormorants6. Where was Thalassa? Where was his wife? He believed they were still in Cornwall, but they might have left the house. He had been in London a long while. Not so long, though—only twelve days. Twelve days! Twelve eternities of unendurable hopelessness and loneliness, such as the damned might know. Was he to fail, now, after finding Sisily? He had a responsibility, a solemn duty. He had reached Cornwall safely from London—run the gauntlet of all the watching eyes of the police—and he would not go back without seeing Thalassa. His mind was thoroughly7 made up. He would find him, if he had to walk every inch of Cornwall in search of him. And when he found him he would wrest8 the truth out of him—yes, by God, he would! When he found him, but where was he to be found? The crafty9 old scoundrel might be in the house at that moment, lurking10
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cormorant
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n.鸬鹚,贪婪的人 | |
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enjoyment
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wailing
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gathering
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momentary
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affected
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nausea
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catastrophe
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craftiest
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狡猾的,狡诈的( crafty的最高级 ) | |
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jealousy
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flaring
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screeching
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v.发出尖叫声( screech的现在分词 );发出粗而刺耳的声音;高叫 | |
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pointed
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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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