Outside her shabby cottage, old Mrs. Tailor was hanging out laundry on a wire line, unaware that some children lay hidden in the leaves of a nearby tree watching her every move.

在她那破旧的小屋外，老泰勒夫人正在往一根绳上晾衣服，她根本没觉察到几个孩子正隐藏在附近的一棵树的树叶里，偷偷看着她的一举一动。

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Perhaps that is because the formidable Labour Millbank machine did all it could four years ago to lay into any minor fiddle or question of probity hanging over the head of any Conservative MP.

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Lay must have felt as if there was a cloud forever hanging over his head, which caused continued strategic missteps and even rendered his lawyer too ill to represent him.

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