鬼屋6
当我那被刺激的神经趋于平静，我对自己说“这是个梦--只是个可怕的梦而已”。并且我又好好想了一下，至到我确信这是个梦。我咧嘴笑笑，像没事发生过。我从床上起来，打开了灯；看到门闩和锁完好如初，这个发现令我欢欣，笑意浮现在我的嘴角。我拿出烟斗，点上烟，在火炉前坐下，烟斗从我虚弱的手指间掉下，我俯下身时，我的脸一下子变得煞白，呼吸也变得急促起来！在火炉边的灰烬上，在我的脚印旁边，还有另外的脚印，这脚印如此巨大，我的脚印与它想比就像是婴儿的！可见我有一个造访者，但这脚印只有大象的的脚印才可以解释。When my excitement had calmed, I said to myself," This is a dream-simply a hideous dream." And so I lay thinking it over until I convinced myself that it was a drarm, and then a comforting laugh relaxed my lips and I was happy again.
I got up and struck a light; and when I found that the locks and bolts were just as I had left them, another soothing laugh welled in my heart and rippled from my lips. I took my pipe and lit it, and was just sitting down before the fire, when-down went the pipe out of my nerveless fingers,the blood forsook my cheeks,and my placid breathing was cut shou with a gasp!In the ashes on the hearth,side by side with my own bare footprint,was another,so vast that in comparison mine was but an infant's!Then I had had a visitor,and the elephant tread was explained.
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