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CHAPTER XXXIV THE ACCOLADE
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WHEN Marjory arrived, I had all ready for our exploration. There were several packages waiting for her, and when she emerged from the room where she had gone to change, their purpose was manifest. She appeared in a flannel1 tennis frock, short enough to show that she had put on her sand shoes on her bare feet. She saw that I noticed and said with a little blush:
“You see I am dressed for the part; you came back so wet the last time that I thought I had better prepare for it too.”
“Quite right, my dear,” I said. “That pretty head of yours is level.” We went to the cellar at once where I had lamps and candles prepared and ready to light. I showed Marjory how to get up and down by herself, in case anything should happen to me. This made the gravity of our enterprise apparent. Her face grew a trifle anxious, though she did not change colour; I could see that all her anxiety was for me and none for herself. We took care to bring a plentiful2 supply of matches and candles, as well as an extra lamp and an oil can, and some torches and red and white lights. All these were in a tin box to insure their being kept dry. I had a meal of bread and meat packed ready; also a bottle of water and a flask3 of brandy, for the exploration might take a long time. The tide was not quite out, and there was still in places a[278] couple of feet of water; but we decided4 to go on at once as it would give us more time if we started on a falling tide.
I took Marjory first up the passage inland, so that she might understand something of the lines of the cave system. There was, however, too much tide just then to show her where I surmised5 there might be some deep opening, perhaps permanently6 under water, into some of the other caves. Then we retraced7 our steps and gained the pile of debris8 of the explosion at the cave’s mouth. I could not but notice how much Marjory was impressed by the stillness of the place. Here, the tide, filtering in by innumerable
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flannel
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flask
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decided
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surmised
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permanently
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crevices
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rifts
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cavern
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shuddered
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touching
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possessed
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velvet
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granite
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ecstasy
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acquiesced
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thoroughly
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ramifications
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lurid
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repulsive
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instinctively
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texture
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narrative
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strata
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trickles
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windings
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rudiment
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delightful
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honeymoon
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obedience
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joyously
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majesty
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vernacular
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canopy
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pebbles
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| [复数]鹅卵石; 沙砾; 卵石,小圆石( pebble的名词复数 ) | |
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isolated
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spoke
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wading
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knight
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loyalty
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vows
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