Surrounded by the guard of "Patriots," the procession of prisoners moved slowly into the outer courtyard, on its way to the revolutionary tribunal, the humpbacked jailer bringing up the rear. Lomaque was about to follow at some little distance, but the head jailer hospitably expostulated. "What a hurry you're in!" said he. "Now that incorrigible drinker, my second in command, has gone off with his batch, I don't mind asking you to step in and have a drop of wine."英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
"Martigne," answered the humpbacked jailer, coming forward to the table.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
After a while, the door communicating with the tribunal opened, and the humpbacked jailer made his appearance, leading in Trudaine and Rose.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
"Good!" cried the humpback, drawing his hand across his mouth; "I am parched with thirst, and dying to moisten my throat at the wine-shop over the way. Just mind that man and woman while I'm gone, will you? It's the merest form--there's a guard outside, the windows are barred, the tribunal is within hail. Do you mind obliging me?"英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
With these words, the humpbacked jailer ran off to the wineshop.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
It was no dream; clear and cruel in the moonlight the humpbacked boulder; the dead sheep; and that gray figure, beautiful, motionless, damned for all eternity. The Master turned his face and looked at Andrew, a dumb, pitiful entreaty in his eyes; but in the boy's white, horror-stricken countenance was no comfort. Then his head lolled down again, and the strong man was whimpering. 'Scuse ma laffin', Mr. Moore--he! he!"
A little man, all wet and shrunk, sat hunching on a mound above them, rocking his shrivelled form to and fro in the agony of his merriment. "Ye raskil--he! Ye rogue--he!英文原著 · 《Bob Son of Battle》
But in the firm's food chain, I am a humpback whale, and you are phytoplankton.美剧 · 《Suits》