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CHAPTER VIII
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“A person sat demanding from God the rise of morn—when morn rose he became blind.”—Arabic Proverb.
“I wish the stars could be seen,” Sir Richard said irritably2, three nights later, as he looked up at the sky, across which hung a heavy purple cloud. Due to the intense heat, it obliterated3 the stars, thereby4 trying the patience of the old man to the uttermost. “This delay is simply abominable5. To think, just to think, that this wind has been blowing for nearly a week, clouding the sky and blotting6 out the stars—the stars by which, if they could have been seen, I could have proved, absolutely proved, that we are camped upon the exact spot, between the mountains of Hareek and the Jebel Akhaf, from where the Holy Fathers turned due south. We could have followed in their footsteps, started to-night; think of it, could have started to-night, if only this wind hadn’t blown. What? Try to find out what the firing meant the other night? Nonsense, man, nonsense! We don’t want to go over all that again. Some Arab, a solitary7 one. Sound carries for miles, miles in the desert, the slightest sound. If you let a pin drop it could be almost heard in Hutah. Absurd! The thing to do is to get on.” He spread out, with an angry slap, the copy he had made of the vellum inscribed8 by the Holy Palladius, and read out the Latin words by the light of an electric torch. “It absolutely tallies9,” he cried enthusiastically. “You see, ab-so-lutely tallies! Another week, perhaps a little less, perhaps a little more, and we should see the Sanctuary10 before us, if we could only start!”
“But, Grandad,” interrupted Helen, who sat fanning[104] herself with her topee in an endeavour to bear with the terrible heat, which had encircled her eyes with deep violet shadows and caused her collar bones to show with
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枪口( muzzle的名词复数 ); (防止动物咬人的)口套; (四足动物的)鼻口部; (狗)等凸出的鼻子和口 | |
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勒缰绳使(马)停步( rein的过去式和过去分词 ); 驾驭; 严格控制; 加强管理 | |
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