Laura drew up a pailful of water from the well at the edge of the Big slough.

罗拉在大泥潭边的水井里提上一桶水。

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It would mean patients from Slough and Maidenhead having to travel up to 20 miles for beds at Reading's purpose-built Prospect Park Hospital.

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"There are lots of smart people who kind of slough off, and it eventually catches up with them, " she says.

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These include not only the perseverance that kept him tramping through the slough of despond when others might have given up, but also a nimble and well-stocked mind, an approachable manner on the stump and the big prize that eludes Mr Romney a palpable sincerity.

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