你的驱魔失败了，亲爱的斯特伦克太太，乔治说，他蹲坐在马桶上，从巢穴里窥视着前方，看着她正把吸尘器积尘袋里的东西清理到垃圾桶里去。

Your exorcism has failed, dear Mrs. Strunk, says George, squatting on the toilet and peeping forth from his lair to watch her emptying the dust bag of her vacuum cleaner into the trash can.

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它倒是确实引导我找到了乔治·伯恩斯、弗兰克·辛纳特拉和梅斯迪氏兄弟的家。

It did guide me to houses once inhabited by George Burns, Frank Sinatra and the Menendez brothers.

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但乔治肯定，斯特伦克夫人暗暗刻意表现得与她的丈夫不同；因为她受新式教育，将手段隐在温柔中。

But Mrs. Strunk, George feels sure, takes leave to differ gently from her husband; for she is trained in the new tolerance, the technique of annihilation by blandness.

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