Burmese Days 缅甸岁月 Chapter 20

Next morning there was great excitement in Kyauktada, for the long- rumoured ¹ rebellion had at last broken out. Flory heard only a vague report of it at the time. He had gone back to camp as soon as he felt fit to march after the drunken night, and it was not until several days later that he learned the true history of the rebellion, in a long, indignant letter from Dr Veraswami., ,The doctor's epistolary style was queer. His syntax was shaky and he was as free with capital letters as a seventeenth-century divine, while in the use of italics he rivalled Queen Victoria. There were eight pages of his small but sprawling ² handwriting., ,MY DEAR FRIEND [the letter ran],--You will much regret to hear that the WILES ³ OF THE CROCODILE have matured. The rebellion--the SO- CALLED rebellion--is all over and finished. And it has been, alas ⁴! a more Bloody ⁵ affair than I had hoped should have been the case., , ,Also I should inform you that there was most regrettably a Death. Mr Maxwell was I think TOO ANXIOUS to use his Rifle and when one of the rebels try to run away he fired and shoot him in the abdomen ¹⁷, at which he died. I think the villagers have some BAD FEELING towards Mr Maxwell because of it. But from the point of view legal all is well for Mr Maxwell, because the men were undoubtedly ¹⁸ conspiring ¹⁹ against the Government., ,Ah, but, my Friend, I trust that you understand how disastrous ²⁰ may all this be for me! You will realise, I think, what is its bearing upon the Contest between U Po Kyin and myself, and the supreme ²¹ LEG- UP it must give to him. It is the TRIUMPH OF THE CROCODILE. U Po Kyin is now the Hero of the district. He is the PET of the Europeans. I am told that even Mr Ellis has praised his conduct. If you could witness the abominable ²² Conceitedness ²³ and the LIES he is now telling as to how there were not seven rebels but Two Hundred!! and how he crushed upon them revolver in hand--he who only directing operations from a SAFE DISTANCE while the police and Mr Maxwell creep up upon the hut--you would find is veritably Nauseous I assure you. He has had the effrontery ²⁴ to send in an official report of the matter which started, 'By my loyal promptitude and reckless daring', and I hear that positively ²⁵ he had had this Conglomeration ²⁶ of lies written out in readiness days BEFORE THE OCCURRENCE. It is Disgusting. And to think that now when he is at the Height of his triumph he will again begin to calumniate ²⁷ me with all the venom ²⁸ at his disposal etc. etc., ,It began to be rumoured that the jury would be out a long while. 有人传说陪审团要退场很久 。 来自英汉文学 - 双城记,He was sprawling in an armchair in front of the TV. 他伸开手脚坐在电视机前的一张扶手椅上
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