Story of the Three Calenders - 12
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- 2024-11-29
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Scarcely had I finished when, looking out to sea, I saw the
vessel
1 heading for the island, and, feeling that it would be useless for me to protest my
innocence
2, I again
concealed
3 myself among the branches of a tree that grew near by. , ,The old man and his slaves pushed off in a boat directly the ship touched land, and walked quickly towards the entrance to the underground
chamber
4; but when they were near enough to see that the earth had been disturbed, they paused and changed colour. In silence they all went down and called to the youth by name; then for a moment I heard no more. Suddenly a fearful scream rent the air, and the next instant the slaves came up the steps, carrying with them the body of the old man, who had fainted from sorrow! Laying him down at the foot of the tree in which I had taken shelter, they did their best to recover him, but it took a long while. When at last he revived, they left him to dig a grave, and then laying the young man's body in it, they threw in the earth. , ,This ended, the slaves brought up all the furniture that remained below, and put it on the vessel, and breaking some
boughs
5 to weave a litter, they laid the old man on it, and carried him to the ship, which spread its sails and stood out to sea. , , ,Even when I was safe on the other side I had a long distance to go on the mud and sand before I reached dry ground, and very tired I was, when far in front of me I caught sight of a castle of red
copper
6, which, at first sight, I took to be a fire. I made all the haste I could, and after some miles of hard walking stood before it, and gazed at it in
astonishment
7, for it seemed to me the most wonderful building I had ever
beheld
8. While I was still staring at it, there came towards me a tall old man, accompanied by ten young men, all handsome, and all blind of the right eye. , ,Now in its way, the spectacle of ten men walking together, all blind of the right eye, is as
uncommon
9 as that of a copper castle, and I was turning over in my mind what could be the meaning of this strange fact, when they greeted me warmly, and inquired what had brought me there. I replied that my story was somewhat long, but that if they would take the trouble to sit down, I should be happy to tell it them. When I had finished, the young men begged that I would go with them to the castle, and I
joyfully
10 accepted their offer. We passed through what seemed to me an endless number of rooms, and came at length into a large hall, furnished with ten small blue sofas for the ten young men, which served as beds as well as chairs, and with another sofa in the middle for the old man. As none of the sofas could hold more than one person, they bade me place myself on the carpet, and to ask no questions about anything I should see. , ,You should put the water into a vessel.你应该把水装入容器中。,There was a touching air of innocence about the boy.这个男孩有一种令人感动的天真神情。
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