The first thing I did was to give her a name.

我做的第一件事物是给她一个名字。

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Her ailing brain comprehended nothing, but the only thing which she did not doubt was that he had come to get her.

她的病脑完全不能了解当时的事，她以为他是为了她来的，她受不了那副凶相。

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She had no admiration for them now; she almost hated them for the dance they had led her; not a thing of all that had been theirs did she retain but the old seal and spoon.

现在她对他们毫无敬仰的心情了；甚至她还恨他们给她带来烦恼；他们除了给她留下来一方古印和一把羹匙而外，其它的东西一件也没有给她留下来。

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But that never happened. For one thing, she did not love him as much as he loved her.

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He looked up and saw her and did the thing where he blew a kiss.

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She simply did not know what to do, and the sensation of helplessness resounded with only one thing she remembered in all her years: the terror of the day that Mr. Zegerman had stumbled while walking along the wharf and hit his head on that utterly purposeless green metal thingy.

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