There was another alleyway which came to a dead end just behind the house.

还有一个小巷，就在这房子后面形成了死胡同。

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S'pose we tackle that old dead-limb tree on the hill t'other side of Still-House branch?

咱们去鬼屋河岸对面小山上那棵枯树那儿挖，怎么样？

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Masa walked slowly towards the house, stopping now and then to cut off dead leaves or fading flowers.

玛莎缓缓地向房子走去，不时停下来剪下枯叶或凋谢的花朵。

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And now at the dead hour of the night, in the horrible silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror.

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