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第6章 赤冠白鹤兽

A Tale of Two Cities

a man of little more than thirty, but looking twenty years older

a low sound of knocking. “Good God!” he said, with a start.

a man learneth of himself, and bringeth his own thoughts to light, and whetteth his wits as against a stone, which itself cuts not. In a word, a man were better relate himself to a statue, or picture, then to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

2Sa 14:31 Then Joab came to Absalom in his house and said to him, Why have your servants put my field on fire?

2Ch 28:18 And the Philistines, forcing their way into the towns of the lowlands and the south of Judah, had taken Beth-shemesh an

A pickup truck rattles up the road trailing dust and pulls to

2Sa 16:20 Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, Give your opinion now, what are we to do?

A snug small room; a round table by a cheerful fire; an armchair high-backed and old-fashioned, wherein sat the neatest