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But she did not repeat the question.
但她沒有重復這個問題。
Before he went to bed, Dick counted his money again.
睡覺前，迪克又數了數他的錢。
Somehow he felt guilty at having so much.
不知怎的，他為擁有這么多錢而感到內疚。
Tuesday morning, when he woke up, it was snowing.
星期二早上，當他醒來時，正在下雪。
It snowed all day.
雪下了一整天。
There were ten inches of snow on the ground when Dick’s father came home that night.
那天晚上迪克的父親回家時，地上積了十英寸厚的雪。
Dick looked out of his window before he went to bed.
迪克睡覺前向窗外望去。
It had stopped snowing.
雪已經停了。
But before the dawn, the flakes were falling again, a thin, driving snow, the kind that keeps coming.
但在黎明之前，雪花又開始飄落，一場薄薄的雪，一場持續不斷的雪。
Dick had had an uncomfortable Tuesday;
迪克星期二過得很不舒服；
he had done some hard thinking Tuesday night;
星期二晚上，他苦思冥想；
and Wednesday morning he got out his money—he kept it in a drawer in his bureau—and counted it again.
星期三早晨，他把放在書桌抽屜里的錢拿出來，又數了一遍。
Then he did some more thinking; then put the money away again and thrust the drawer shut with a hard bang.
然后他又想了想，又把錢收起來，把抽屜砰地一聲關上了。
He seemed to see the tall, thin figure of a woman laboring with something, her shoulders rising and falling.
他似乎看到了一個瘦高的女人勞作的身影，她的肩膀上下起伏。
She was working the handle of the pump-
她在泵水——
