One day, about a week after the funeral, Florence was sitting at her work, when Susan appeared, with a face half laughing and half crying, to announce a visitor.

有一天，大约在送殡以后一个星期光景，弗洛伦斯正坐着做针线活，这时苏珊脸上半笑半哭地跑进来通报说，来了一个客人。

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Laughing took away his pain after half a year.

半年后，欢笑带走了他的痛苦。

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And so it pleased me, in a half-laughing way, to leave pieces of money on the turf as I went along, until I had left enough for my night's lodging.

所以在我动身离开的时候，我很满意的以一种半开玩笑的方式，在草地上留下了足够的钱以支付夜间住宿的费用。

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'Oh, I felt fur, ' she cried, half laughing and half crying.

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