My poor fellow classmates! They told me they were almost dying.

可怜的同学们，他们告诉我简直都要窒息了！

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I now felt sure that the poor fellow had gone crazy in his solitude, and I suppose I must have shown the feeling in my face, for he repeated the statement hotly: "Rich!"

现在我觉得这个可怜的人在孤独的生活中有些精神失常了，我猜想我一定把这感觉流露到脸上了，因为他又热切地重复了一遍：“我发财了！”

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