No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.
She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.
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After all their troubles, at last they lived happily ever after.
在經歷一波三折後,他們最終幸福快樂地生活下去。
After exhausting all possibilities, Holmes was at last satisfied the problem was unsolvable.