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CHAPTER XVI
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“It is an hour’s poison.”—Arabic Proverb.
If Ralph Trenchard had been a guest instead of a prisoner, if he had been the men’s blood-brother in crime instead of an intruder likely, for a space, to become their leader by marriage through the love-madness of the Sheikh’s daughter, more solicitude1 could not have been shown for his amusement and welfare in the days which preceded the great feast at which he was to be tricked or publicly coerced2 into a betrothal3 with Zarah.
As a rider and a shot, he had won the men’s hearts; as a foreigner who menaced the peace of the community, he stood in hourly danger of his life, if he had but known it.
He did not know.
With his thoughts given entirely4 to the memory of the girl he loved, lacking, through her death, the spur necessary to send him hot-foot back upon the road to civilization, he had unquestioningly accepted the explanation Zarah had given him of the mistake her men had made, and which had ended in the disastrous5 battle, and had set himself to live but for the passing day. He had longed for adventure, he had found adventure, and when the novelty passed off and the salt of hunting with cheetahs6, racing7 across the moonlit desert, pitting his skill with rifle and horse against the finest riders and shots in the world, lost its savour, then he would make tracks for his own land, where the fare, if somewhat lacking in spice, is figuratively and literally8 less calculated to upset the digestion9.
Having forgotten the European half of Zarah’s parentage, and lacking woman’s intuition and keener psychological[207] perception, he put her almost
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hawk
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一阵强风( gust的名词复数 ); (怒、笑等的)爆发; (感情的)迸发; 发作 | |
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wayfarer
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writhing
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(因极度痛苦而)扭动或翻滚( writhe的现在分词 ) | |
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scorching
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seething
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沸腾的,火热的 | |
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gasping
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