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CHAPTER V. — THE HOSPITAL OF ST. LAURENT.
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De Lescure only remained three days at Durbelli猫re, and then started again for his own house at Clisson, and Henri accompanied him. They had both been occupied during these three days in making such accommodation as was in their power for the sick and wounded, who were brought back into the Bocage in considerable numbers from Saumur. The safe and sound and whole of limb travelled faster than those who had lost arms and legs in the trenches1 at Varin, or who had received cuts and slashes2 and broken ribs3 at the bridge of Fouchard, and therefore the good news was first received in the Bocage; but those miserable4 accompaniments of victory, low tumbrils, laden5 with groaning6 sufferers lying on straw, slowly moving carts, every motion of which opened anew the wounds of their wretched occupants, and every species of vehicle as could be collected through the country, crammed8 with the wounded and the dying, and some even with the dead, were not long in following the triumphal return of the victorious9 peasants.
A kind of hospital was immediately opened at a little town called St. Laurent sur S猫vre, about two leagues from Durbelli猫re, at which a convent of sisters of mercy had long been established. De Lescure and Larochejaquelin between them supplied the means, and the sisters of the establishment cheerfully gave their time, their skill, and tenderest attention to assuage10 the miseries11 of their suffering countrymen. Agatha knew the superior of the convent well, and assisted in all the necessary preparations. She was there when the hospital was first opened, and for a long time afterwards visited it once or twice a week, on which occasions she stayed for the night in the convent; had it not been that she could not bring herself to leave her father, she would have remained there altogether, as long as the war continued to supply the little
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| 深沟,地沟( trench的名词复数 ); 战壕 | |
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miseries
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saviour
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peculiar
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inquiry
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bosom
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begrudge
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gallantly
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blues
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musket
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wail
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| vt./vi.大声哀号,恸哭;呼啸,尖啸 | |
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followers
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fugitive
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soothed
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invaluable
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espoused
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virtue
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patriot
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patriotism
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admiration
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mundane
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distinguished
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idol
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| n.偶像,红人,宠儿 | |
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humble
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passionately
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incurably
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kindly
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inevitably
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protracted
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chamber
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exertions
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authoritative
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ebbing
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gratitude
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torpid
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excellence
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piety
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devoted
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devour
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brutality
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conquerors
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abjured
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atheism
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doomed
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slaughtered
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prey
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demons
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atrocities
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foes
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conjured
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fixed
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pinnacle
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