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IN WHICH IS PRESENTED ANOTHER PICTURE OF THE HOUSE OF THE NINE NATIONS
PALE and hesitating, Brother Spyke says: "I have no passion for delving1 into such places; and having seen enough for one night, am content to leave the search for this vile2 old man to you." The valiant3 missionary4 addresses Mr. Fitzgerald, who stands with one foot upon the rickety old steps that lead to the second story of the House of the Nine Nations.
This morning, Brother Spyke was ready to do battle with the whole heathen world, to drag it up into light, to evangelize it. Now he quails5 before this heathen world, so terribly dark, at his own door.
"You have, sir," says the detective, "seen nuthin' as yet. The sights are in these 'ere upper dens6; but, I may say it, a body wants nerve. Some of our Aldermen say ye can't see such sights nowhere else."
The missionary replies, holding tenaciously8 to his umbrella, "That may be true; but I fear they will be waiting me at home." Again he scans inquiringly into the drenched9 area of the Points; then bidding the officer good-night, is soon out of sight, on his way into Centre Street. Reaching the old stoop, the detective touches a spring, and the shattered door opens into a narrow, gloomy passage, along which he gropes his way, over a floor cobbled with filth10, and against an atmosphere thick of disease. Now a faint light flashes through a crevice11 in the left wall, plays fantastically upon the black surface of the opposite, then dies away. The detective lights his lantern, stands a moment with his ear turned, as if listening to the revelry in the bottomless pit. A door opens to his touch, he enters a cave-like room-it is the one from out which the light stole so
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| 鹌鹑( quail的名词复数 ); 鹌鹑肉 | |
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scotch
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clergy
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tyrant
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lodgers
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tenants
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inebriated
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prey
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labors
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conspicuous
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eternity
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