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79:吾輩は名無しである
 26/04/02 12:37:20.97 xzwK1Pn9.net
Joe gave a reproachful cough, as much as to say, “Well, that’s what I was trying to tell you.” 
“And please, what are hulks?” I asked. 
“That’s just like this boy!” my sister exclaimed, pointing at me with her needle and thread and shaking her head. “Answer one question, and he’ll immediately ask a dozen more. Hulks are prison ships, across the marshes.” In our part of the country, we always pronounced marshes that way. 
“I wonder who is put on prison ships, and why they are put there,” I said generally, in a tone of quiet desperation.

80:吾輩は名無しである
 26/04/02 12:38:21.58 xzwK1Pn9.net
This was too much for Mrs. Joe, who immediately stood up. “I’ll tell you this, young fellow,” she said. “I did not raise you by hand so you could pester the life out of people. It would be a disgrace to me, not a credit, if I had. People are put on the hulks because they murder, and rob, and forge, and do all sorts of wicked things; and they always begin by asking questions. Now, off to bed with you!” 
I was never allowed a candle to light my way to bed, and as I went upstairs in the dark, with my head still tingling from Mrs. Joe’s thimble having drummed on it to emphasize her last words, I became painfully aware of how conveniently close the hulks were for someone like me. I was clearly headed there. I had begun by asking questions, and soon I was going to rob Mrs. Joe.

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