And I knowed I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking -- thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell.

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In Ruxton's Life in the Far West there's an Indian who gets red all over blushing because he got so many scalps and he runs like hell into the plains to glory over his deeds in hiding.

在《卢克斯顿的生活》里在美国中西部有一个印第安人,他因为得了太多头皮而全身涨得通红,拼命跑到草原里来藏起他的荣誉。

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Milton wants the reader to know that she's fallen, we are all fallen, and any problem that we have in understanding the theology of heaven and hell is our problem as fallen readers.

弥尔顿希望读者认识到她在堕落，我们也在堕落，以及我们在理解天堂中遇到的任何问题,以及地狱式我们这些堕落了的读者们的心魔。

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