Margaret Smith, a leader in Washington society at that time, wrote a letter describing the scene: Ladies fainted, men were seen with bloody noses and such a scene of confusion took place as is impossible to describe - those who got in could not get out by the door again, but had to scramble out of windows.

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The question would have been what will happen if I go and try to settle a colony at the place which I will call Syracuse that's what I've been describing on the southeastern coast of Sicily.

人们提得问题可能会是,如果我去,锡拉库萨建立殖民地,会发生什么事情,这就是我刚才描述过的,发生在西西里东南岸的事

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In a sense, the earlier poem, "The Song of the Wandering Aengus," transformed the Irish landscape into a place of myth, in the same way that the poem is describing the transformation of the trout into the girl.

从某个角度讲，这首早期诗歌，流浪者安古斯之歌“,把爱尔兰变成一块神秘之地，这和把鳟鱼变成少女的转变,是一样的描写手法。

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