The portress set to scraping away the grass from what she called her pavement, with an old knife, and, as she tore out the blades, she grumbled

看门的女人用一把旧刀，把门前被她称作是她的铺路石石缝里长出的青草除去，一边除一边嘟囔着

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A girl grumbled to her father about her hard life. She didn't know what she had to do and wanted to give up.

一个女孩向她的父亲诉说生活是多么艰难，她不知道该怎么做，甚至想要放弃。

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If this was all she had come to say, grumbled some, why did she bother?

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"People kind of grumbled" about the newsletter, she says.

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