And then, I'm going to skip down a little bit: Though she never again called back any image of the dead man to dress up, pose, talk to and make answer, neither would she lose a new compassion for the cul-de-sac he'd tried to find a way out of, for the enigma his efforts had created.

接下来，我会跳过一些内容往下说：,虽然她从没有想起过，那个死人穿衣、摆弄姿势、,说话和回答问题时的样子，她也不会失去对他的同情，对他尝试摆脱,无路可走的困境所付出的，谜团一般的努力。

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Privately, Swinney recognises the potential dangers for the SNP in devolution: that the new parliament might become a cul-de-sac which blocks the road to independence.

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Reminders of that terrible day reverberate 1, 300 miles from New York, inside a large, modern brick home on a quiet cul-de-sac just north of Oklahoma City.

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