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THE next day commenced as before, getting up and dressing by
rushlight; but this morning we were obliged to dispense with the
ceremony of washing; the water in the pitchers was frozen. A change
had taken place in the weather the preceding evening, and a keen
north-east wind, whistling through the crevices of our bedroom windows
all night long, had made us shiver in our beds, and turned the
contents of the ewers to ice.
Before the long hour and a half of prayers and Bible-reading was
over, I felt ready to perish with cold. Breakfast-time came at last,
and this morning the porridge was not burnt; the quality was

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Linton had his head laid on the pillow, and his eyes shut. His young and fair features were almost as deathlike as those of the form beside him, and almost as fixed: but his was the hush of exhausted anguish, and hers of perfect peace. Her brow smooth, her lids closed, her lips wearing the expression of a smile; no angel in heaven could be more beautiful than she appeared. And I partook of the infinite calm in which she lay: my mind was never in a holier frame than while I gazed on that untroubled imageof divine rest. I instinctively echoed the words she had uttered a few hours before: `Incomparably beyond and above us all! Whether still on earth or now in heaven, her spirit is at home with God!' , in my eyes, was his being left without an heir. I bemoaned that, as I gazed on the feeble orphan; and I mentally abused old Linton for (what was only natural partiality) the securing his estate to his own daughter, instead of his son's. An unwelcomed infant it was, poor

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multitudes have been before and will be after him, was infatuated; and believed himself th,e happiest man alive on the day he led her to Gimmerton Chapel, three years subsequent to his father's death.
Much against my inclination, I was persuaded to leave Wuthering Heights and accompany her here. Little Hareton was nearly five years old, and I had just begun to teach him his letters. We made a sad parting; but Catherine's tears were more powerful than ours. When I refused to go, and when she found her entreaties did not move me,
she went lamenting to her husband and brother. The former offered me munificent wages; the latter ordered me to pack up: he wanted no women in the house, he said, now that there was no mistress; and as to Hareton, the curate should take him in hand, by and by. And so I had but one choice left: to do as I was ordered. I told the master he got rid of all decent people only to run

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On the morning of a fine June day, my first bonny little nursling, and the last of the ancient Earnshaw stock, was born. We were busy with the hay in a far away field, when the girl that usually brought our breakfasts, came running an hour too soon, across the meadow and up the lane, calling me as she ran.
`Oh, such a grand bairn!' she panted out. `The finest lad that ever breathed! But the doctor says missis must go: he says she's been in a consumption these many months. I heard him tell Mr Hindley: and now she has nothing to keep her, and she'll be dead before winter. You must come home directly. You're to nurse it, Nelly: to feed it with sugar and milk, and take care of it day and night. I wish I were you, because it will be all yours when there is no missis!'
`But is she very ill?' I asked, flinging down my rake, and tying my bonnet.

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Churston，lying as it does between Brixham on the one side and Paigntonand Torquay on the other，occupies a position about half-way round the curveof Torbay.Until about ten years ago it was merely a golf links and below thelinks a green sweep of countryside dropping down to the sea with only afarmhouse or two in the way of human occupation.But of late years there hadbeen big building developments between Churston and Paignton and thecoastline is new dotted with small houses and bungalows，new roads，etc. Sir Carmichael Clarke had purchased a site of some two acres commandingan uninterrupted view of the sea.The house he had built was of moderndesign-a white rectangle that was not unpleasing to the eye.Apart from twobig galleries that housed his collection it was not a large house. Our arrival there took place about 8am.A local police officer had met usat the station and had put us au courant of the situation. Sir Carmichael Clarke，it seemed，had been in the habit of taking a

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cannot say more than that.He acts as the writer of the letter would act-goesat once to the police-pushes himself to the fore-enjoys his position." "Do you really think-?" "No，Hastings.Personally I believe that the murderer came from outsideAndover，but we must neglect no avenue of research.And although I say"he"all the time，we must not exclude the possibility of a woman beingconcerned." "Surely not!" "The method of attack is that of a man，
I agree.But anonymous lettersare written by women rather than by men.We must bear that in mind." I was silent for a few minutes，then I said: "What do we do next?" "My energetic Hastings，"Poirot said and smiled at me. "No，but what do we do?" "Nothing." "Nothing?"My disappointment rang out clearlly.

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all spun round together: then the ring broke, and in separate rings of two and four they turned and turned until they all stopped at once, began again, struck, clutched, and tore, and then reversed the spin, and all spun round another way. Suddenly they stopped again, paused, struck out the time afresh, formed into lines the width of the public way, and, with their heads low down and their hands high up, swooped screaming off. No fight could have been half so terrible as this dance. It was so emphatically a fallen sport- a something, once innocent,
delivered over to all devilry- a healthy pastime changed into a means of angering the blood, bewildering the senses, and steeling the heart. Such grace as was visible in it, made it the uglier, showing how warped and perverted all things good by nature were become. The maidenly bosom bared to this, the pretty almost-child's head thus distracted, the delicate foot mincing in this slough of blood and dirt, were types of the disjointed

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让你蒙对了！”甄一然轻轻叹道，“我还真有点儿紧张！你惠文大姐说得对，共产党也是人，也有人的弱点……我一直都在想这次的北边之行会是个什么结果！个人的生死还在其次，假如一旦谈判破裂……”
　　“你放心！那帮狗日的我了解，他们也懂两军交战，不斩来使的规矩！”
　　“我不是怕死，是怕谈判失败以后……北四师会和我们翻脸，如果
国民党再乘虚而入，那问题就大了！”甄一然说着。
　　马蹄腾空，像风一样地驰骋着。蒙雪的荒原出现一青一红两匹挂着寒霜的马，衣装臃肿的骑手在马背上颠簸着，走向前方苍白冰冷的太阳。在前面的常发见甄一然落了后，便放慢了马步，扯着大嗓一句东一句西地大唱：“三国战将勇，首推赵子龙，长坂坡前逞英雄……摸呀摸，一摸摸到妹妹的炕沿上……”

就不能唱些好听的吗？”
　　“对！”常发突然道，“我还新学了一段呢。”扯开嗓子唱：“一轮明月照关东，白山黑水出英雄……英雄的名字叫酒神，酒神的名字叫常发……”
　　甄一然忍不住地笑：“你怎么乱改词？”
　　“后边的忘了！只好现炒先卖！”
　　“后面的词应该是：人人立功把红花戴，就数哥哥的花最红！”甄一然补充着。
　　“甄书记，你怎么知道？”
　　“你小子那点破事儿我什么不知道。”