Suppose he had blundered over the line and written, "in theyearofourLord seventeen hundred and seventy-six."
假设他冲过界，并这样写“ In the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and seventy - six . ”。
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The date was theyearofOurLord 1896—a period in which gentlemen were proud to spend several thousand dollars of lousy paper money to dig up a couple of ounces of mica "in the Klondike. A blizzard.