原文 (英语)

CHAPTER XXV DAGNEROUS DETAILS It was not to falsify Phillis's story that Saniel insisted on going to see Nougarede. What good would it do? That would be a blunder which sooner or later would show itself, and in that case would turn against him. He would have liked, with the authority of a physician, to explain that this testimony of a paralytic could have no more importance than that of a crazy woman. But at the first words of an explanation Nougarede stopped him. "What you s