'what is all this nonsense, you devil?' i demanded, fiercely enough, though weak and trembling in every limb.
'it is what some are pleased to call 1（戏法，杂耍） ,' he answered, with a light, hard laugh.
he turned down dupont street and i saw him no more until we met in the auburn ravine.
on the day after my second meeting with dr. dorrimore i did not see him: the clerk in the putnam house explained that a slight illness confined him to his rooms. that afternoon at the railway station i was surprised and made happy by the unexpected arrival of miss margaret corray and her mother, from oakland.
this is not a love story. i am no story-teller, and love as it is cannot be 2 in a literature dominated and 3 by（被……迷住） the debasing（降低，掺杂） tyranny which 'sentences letters' in the name of the young girl. under the young girl's 4 5 -- or rather under the rule of those false ministers of the 6 who have appointed themselves to the 7 of her welfare -- love veils her sacred fires,
and, 8, morality expires, 9 upon the 10 meal and 11 water of a 12 purveyance（伙食，供应） .
let it suffice that miss corray and i were engaged in marriage. she and her mother went to the hotel at which i lived, and for two weeks i saw her daily. that i was happy needs hardly be said; the only bar to my perfect 13 of those golden days was the presence of dr. dorrimore, whom i had felt compelled to introduce to the ladies.
by them he was evidently held in favour. what could i say? i knew absolutely nothing to his 14. his manners were those of a cultivated and considerate gentleman; and to women a man's manner is the man. on one or two occasions when i saw miss corray walking with him i was furious, and once had the indiscretion（轻率） to protest. asked for reasons, i had none to give, and fancied i saw in her expression a shade of contempt for the 15 of a jealous mind. in time i grew 16 and consciously disagreeable, and resolved in my madness to return to san francisco the next day. of this, however, i said nothing.
there was at auburn an old, abandoned 17. it was nearly in the heart of the town, yet by night it was as gruesome a place as the most 18 of human moods could 19. the railings about the plots were 20, decayed, or altogether gone. many of the graves were sunken, from others grew sturdy（强健的） pines, whose roots had committed unspeakable sin. the headstones（基石，墓石） were fallen and broken across; brambles overran the ground; the fence was mostly gone, and cows and pigs wandered there at will; the place was a 21 to the living, a 22（诽谤，中伤） on the dead, a 23（亵渎神明） against god.
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