For a moment he seemed to be gaining upon his quarry, but with a cunning sense of his approach it suddenly turned and hobbled across the frozen grass-plot adjoining a shuttered house.

有那么一会儿，他似乎追上了他的猎物，但他敏锐地感觉到他的靠近，猎物突然转身，一瘸一拐地穿过紧挨着一栋关着百叶窗的房子的冰冻草地。

The People now hurried out, as eagerly as they had before thronged in; But their numbers clogging up the doorway, and the fire gaining upon them rapidly, many of them perished ere they had time to effect their escape.

人民现在急匆匆地出去了，就像他们之前蜂拥而至一样。但是他们的数量堵塞了门口，大火迅速向他们袭来，许多人在他们来不及逃跑之前就死了。