Having puffed a few cigarettes to steel himself-for he was always a man of poise, despite his tormented past-he approached him affably and guided him by the shoulder to his paintings hanging there.

凡纳吸了几口烟让自己坚强起来——尽管他受过折磨，可他一直是个泰然自若的人——他像走近朋友那样走近那位狱卒，扶着他的肩膀带他看自己的画。“画的准吗？”

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Mr Garlick had "put the hand of experience on my shoulder", and guided him as a kind of mentor, he added.

BBC: Tributes paid to Anglo-Welsh poet Raymond Garlick